Water Flooding Management

Magdi El Naggar

This course is designed to ensure an effective understanding of the water flooding (injection) system as one of the reservoir secondary methods of oil recovery and maintain the reservoir pressure with special attention to the system components from the supply source to the injection point in the reservoir. It involves injecting clean, non-corrosive water into the reservoir to displace the remaining oil. This training course is primarily on the mechanics of oil recovery by water flooding. The aim of this course is to provide the participants with a complete and up-to-date overview of water flooding. Upon successful completion of this training course, participants should have a solid grounding in understanding the purpose, operation, and inspection of water injection systems for enhanced oil recovery. The training course will also illustrate potential problems and solutions.

The course is composed of modules, which include exercises, group discussions, and quizzes for full comprehension of the course topics relevant to all functions of the water injection system and its operations.

DAY 1 - Introduction

Pre-Course Test
Module 1 : Reservoirs and Rock Properties

  • Definition of Reservoir
  • Reservoir Characteristics (Porosity, Permeability, Reservoir Pressure, Reservoir Temperature, Formation Damage, etc)
  • Factors affecting Reservoir Flow
  • Super-Saturated Reservoir
  • Reservoir rock properties
  • Reservoir fluids properties
  • Factors affecting water flooding

Module 2 : Introduction to Water Injection

  • Definition of Water Injection
  • Reasons for Water Injection
  • Reservoir Drive Mechanisms

Module 3: Waterflooding

  • Waterflooding definition, concept and objective 
  • Water flooding Vs. Water injection
  • Types of waterflood patterns
  • Sources of injection water
  • Factors affect water flow process
  • Waterflooding advantages
  • Case Study:
    • Water injection patterns
    • Aquifer water Vs. seawater
    • Injection water quality control 

DAY 2

Quizzes & recap
Module 4: Water Injection Systems

  • Main components of a water injection system
  • Types of pumps in water injection system
  • Purpose of pumps
  • Filtration of water
  • Purpose of injection well manifolds
  • Case Study:
    • Water injection system components
    • Y-tool applications in water injection system
    • Selection criteria of the water injection system

Module 5 : Screening for Water Flooding

  • Drive Mechanism
  • Reserves estimate and remaining reserves
  • Reasons for waterflooding
  • Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance concept
  • Reservoir engineering aspects and screening for water flooding
  • Water injection systems 
  • Water source: produced water, aquifer water, seawater
  • Basic water treatment
  • Basic seawater treatment
  • Filtration & deaeration
  • Group discussion and exercises

DAY 3

Quizzes & recap

Module 6: Design Aspects of Water Injection Well System

  • Reservoir considerations
  • Immiscible displacement theory
  • Water injection wells construction
  • Basic well completion
  • Types of water injection wells
  • Operating parameters of wells
  • Water flood performance efficiency
  • Water flood design
  • Candidate, pattern and factors affecting pattern selection and well spacing
  • Water flood production performance and reservoir forecast
  • Factors influencing water flood recovery
  • Water flood monitoring
  • Group discussion and exercises

Module 7: Water Flooding Quality & Monitoring

  • Quality & monitoring
  • Corrosion problems (reasons and solutions)
  • Field operations, water system compatibility and treatment
  • Introduction to chemical enhanced oil recovery techniques
  • Polymer flooding
  • Group discussion and recap

DAY 4

Quizzes & recap

Module 8: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Applications 

  • Surfactant flooding
  • Alkaline flooding
  • Hot water flooding
  • Steam injection
  • Water flood project optimization and economic evaluation
  • Field examples and case hist

Module 9 : Injection Water Impurities

  • Water supply sources for injection water
  • Aquifer water, impurities and quality control
  • Seawater, impurities and quality control 
  • Scaling problem
  • Fill accumulation problem
  • Importance of water source compatibility
  • Group discussion and exercises

Module 10 : Water Treatment

  • Types of produced water
  • Aquifer water treatment
  • De-oxygenation
  • Reasons for treating injection water
  • Subsea water injection treatment
  • Biological activities of bacterial colonies
  • Types of bacteria causes reservoir souring and process mechanism
  • Case Study:
    • 3 case studies by participants

DAY 5

Module 11: Water Quality Monitoring

  • Requirement for water quality monitoring
  • Principle of particle size analysis
  • Turbidity
  • Different types of testing methods

Module 12: Operations of the Water Injection System

  • Water injection methodologies
  • Key operating parameters of the water injection system
  • Water performance calculation (Injection water volume calculations)

Module 13: Reservoir Souring

  • Mechanisms of souring
    • Sulphate Reducing Bacteria
    • Reduction of SRB Protection by Bisulphite 
    • Chemicals
    • Thermal Sulphate Reduction
    • Mineral Solubility
    • Partitioning of H2S
  • Reservoir souring reasons
  • Types of bacteria causing reservoir souring
  • Factors influencing reservoir souring process
  • Impact of souring on reservoir performance
  • Factors affecting reservoir souring 
  • Reservoir souring treatment process and techniques
  • Mitigation
    • H2S Scavengers 
    • Biocide Treatments
    • Nitrate Treatments
    • Sulphate Removal from Injection Water
  • Reservoir Souring Prediction
    • Modelling Capabilities
    • Uncertainties
  • Post-course Test

What is Water Flooding Management training course objective?

  • Apply and gain in-depth knowledge on water injection technology and determine the water flooding process as a major method of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).
  • Familiarize with the water injection actual field operations.
  • Understand the relation between water injection & reservoir pressure maintenance.
  • Introduce the basic knowledge of the operating fundamentals of the system.
  • Acquire a fundamental knowledge of the water injection well construction.
  • Understand the basic water injection quality control and monitoring.
  • Gain experience in the system problems and troubleshooting.
  • Understand what are the factors affecting successful institution of waterflooding.
  • Understand how to design, predict and monitor waterflooding.
  • Learn various diagnostics & quantitative techniques of waterflood surveillance and balancing.
  • Learn special considerations of waterflooding remediation of excessive water production shutoff, improving sweep efficiency, polymer augmented waterflood, low salinity) waterflood and reservoir souring.
  • Distinguish the influence of the reservoir and fluid characteristics on injection process and determine the relation between reservoir engineering data and injected water (displacement).
  • Demonstrate understanding of the principals involved in pressure maintenance & oil displacement by an injected fluid.
  • Explain the functions of water injection systems through filters and deaeration and identify the various types of filters.
  • Detail the different qualities of seawater corrosion and distinguish the relationship of microbiological growth and corrosion in line with the structure and growth of diatoms, bacteria and algae.
  • Apply the several tests used to evaluate water quality including process of collecting samples, transport of samples and test frequencies for particle counts.
  • Discuss the thermal methods ofEOR including hot water and steam injection and get important tips of the polymer injection process.

Who should join Water Flooding Management training course by PetroSync?

  • Operations Engineers with 0-10 Years Experience
  • Operations Supervisors with 0-10 Years Experience
  • Production Engineers with 0-10 Years Experience
  • Petroleum Engineers with 0-10 Years Experience
  • Reservoir Engineers with 0-10 Years Experience
  • Field Services Engineers with 0-10 Years Experience

Magdi El Naggar

Managing Director

Magdi El Naggar is officially Certified as Professional Petroleum Engineering Consultants (License 116/7). He has 46 years of professional experience n various phases of Petroleum Engineering including Petroleum/Reservoir/Production/Drilling & Workover Engineering as well as field operations with several multi-national international companies including ARAMCO (Saudi Arabia) and ADNOC (UAE). He has extensive professional experiences in all phases of well intervention operations including coiled tubing, especially during well emergency cases, well control and extended reach operations.

He specialized in well intervention operations, especially, during emergency cases and well blowouts. He also has extensive experiences in full field development studies, Production Enhancement for oil fields as well as various types of wells, CO2 Injection and EOR operations, IWCF & IADC certification.

 
  • Code PST0424-202301
  • Start Date 20 Nov, 2023
  • End Date 24 Nov, 2023
  • Locations Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Cost USD 4195
   Past Training
Code Start Date End Date Locations Cost Instructor
PST0424-202301 20 Nov, 2023 24 Nov, 2023 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia USD 4195 Magdi El Naggar