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Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices
Developing capability to design and implement water flooding programmes in line with best practice
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Why Choose This Course
The Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices training course equips reservoir engineers, production engineers and petroleum professionals to design, manage and optimise water floods. It provides a technically rigorous understanding of frontal displacement theory, injectivity calculations, flood diagnostics, surveillance techniques and water control solutions. The course covers the complete workflow, from initial flood design through to long-term field optimisation. Participants gain analytical tools and practical best practices for maximising recovery while minimising costs.
As the oil and gas industry’s most widely applied secondary recovery method, water flooding can produce substantial differences in incremental recovery and operating costs. The course examines Buckley-Leverett theory, Dykstra-Parsons methods, sweep efficiency calculations, flood pattern selection and breakthrough prediction. It also addresses water fingering, coning and channelling, alongside WOR diagnostic plots, decline curve analysis and reservoir simulation. Mechanical and chemical water control solutions are considered together with intervention planning and field-wide cost optimisation.
This Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices training course will highlight:
- Designing water floods and selecting appropriate flood patterns
- Applying frontal displacement theory and injectivity calculations
- Calculating vertical and areal sweep efficiency
- Predicting breakthrough and diagnosing fingering, coning and channelling
- Using surveillance, WOR diagnostic plots, decline curves and reservoir simulation
- Evaluating mechanical and chemical water control solutions for field-wide optimisation
How will this Training Course be Presented?
The Water Flooding: A to Z of Best Practices Course uses a technically organised and analytically driven learning approach, progressing from reservoir characteristics and flood design essentials to frontal displacement theory, problem recognition and resolution, diagnostic surveillance, and water control solutions. Every day focuses on a separate technical aspect of water flooding, developing a complete and integrated understanding of best practice throughout the entire flood lifecycle.
Analytical calculation activities, interpretation of diagnostic plots, case study evaluation, and discussions on reservoir simulation are incorporated throughout, enabling delegates to link theoretical frameworks with the practical decisions they make in actual water flooding projects.
Delivery methods comprise:
- Instructor-led sessions addressing water flooding principles, reservoir characteristics, flood design factors, and pattern selection
- Analytical calculation workshops using the Buckley-Leverett, Welge, Stiles, Craig-Geffen-Morse, and Dykstra-Parsons methods to predict flood performance
- Sweep efficiency analysis sessions that calculate areal and vertical sweep efficiencies across different flood configurations
- Problem diagnosis workshops examining water fingering, tonguing, coning, channelling, and fracture/fault connectivity scenarios
- Water control solutions workshops assessing mechanical, chemical, gel, and cement treatment options through risk assessment and field-wide optimisation frameworks