Course Overview
This course provides a foundational understanding of how reservoir properties affect waterflood performance in enhanced oil recovery operations. Participants will learn the key rock and fluid characteristics influencing water injection, displacement efficiency, sweep efficiency, and ultimate recovery. The program emphasizes integrating reservoir geology, petrophysics, and fluid flow principles to optimize waterflood design and management.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand fundamental reservoir properties impacting waterflood performance.
- Analyze porosity, permeability, and heterogeneity effects on water injection.
- Evaluate fluid-rock interactions affecting displacement efficiency.
- Assess reservoir layering, wettability, and relative permeability impacts.
- Apply principles of sweep efficiency and breakthrough mechanisms.
- Integrate reservoir property knowledge into waterflood design and optimization.
Who Should Attend
- Reservoir engineers and petrophysicists
- Production engineers involved in enhanced oil recovery
- Field development planners and asset managers
- Geoscientists supporting reservoir characterization
- Petroleum engineering students and researchers
Course Outline
Introduction to Waterflooding and Reservoir Properties
- Overview of Waterflooding in EOR
- Key Reservoir Properties: Porosity, Permeability, Heterogeneity
- Reservoir Types and Their Influence on Waterflooding
Porosity, Permeability, and Rock Properties
- Measurement and Interpretation of Porosity and Permeability
- Impact of Rock Fabric and Grain Size
- Effects of Reservoir Heterogeneity and Anisotropy
Fluid-Rock Interactions and Wettability
- Wettability Concepts and Measurement
- Capillary Pressure and Its Role in Waterflooding
- Relative Permeability and Saturation Functions
Sweep Efficiency and Breakthrough Mechanisms
- Definitions of Areal, Vertical, and Macroscopic Sweep Efficiency
- Factors Affecting Sweep Efficiency
- Water Breakthrough: Causes and Prediction
Integrating Reservoir Properties into Waterflood Design
- Reservoir Characterization for Waterflooding
- Simulation and Modeling Approaches
- Case Studies on Property Effects in Waterflood Projects
- Designing Optimization Strategies Based on Reservoir Properties