ATECH
Application
Technology Limited
ATECH Application Technology Limited
presents a 3 day course: Introduction To
Waterflooding Who should attend and why? This course is intended for engineers,
technologists and geoscientists who wish to develop a solid understanding of
the theory and practice of waterflooding.
The aim is to develop basic skills for designing and evaluating
waterfloods based on fundamental understanding of multiphase flow and
immiscible displacement in porous media. The course combines rock and fluid
characteristics, immiscible displacement theory and practical considerations
to develop water flooding prediction techniques and to aid in the evaluation
of actual waterflood performance behavior.
Detailed predictions of oil and water producing rates, water injection
rates, and recovery efficiency are presented.
Selection of waterflood patterns, prediction of sweep efficiency
(areal, vertical and displacement), the influence of vertical reservoir
stratification, and the estimation of pattern injectivity are included. Also discussed
are well completions and the sources and treatment of injection water. Course Content: · Primary,
secondary and tertiary recovery concepts, review of rock and fluid
properties, material balance calculations. · Interfacial tension, wettability, capillary pressure, relative
permeability, two-phase flow equations · Fractional flow equation, Buckley-Leverett frontal advance theory for
1-dimensional displacements, Welge method, linear waterflood performance
predictions, saturation distribution, factors affecting the displacement
performance, Displacement under segregated flow conditions, viscous
fingering. · Effect
of Mobility Ratio, Pattern Geometry and other factors on Areal Sweep
Efficiency, Factors Affecting Selection of Waterflood Pattern · Injectivities correlations for regular patterns, effects of mobility
ratio and area swept · Permeability distribution in petroleum reservoirs, Dykstra-Parsons
coefficient of permeability variation, Lorenze coefficient · Factors affecting vertical sweep, effects of mobility ratio, reservoir
heterogeneity and gravitational forces, effect of cross-flow. · Stiles’ method, Dykstra-Parsons method, graphical correlations, CGM
method, estimating performance from a developed field · Black oil models, 3-phase flow equations, steps involved in a
simulation study · Fall-off tests in liquid-filled systems, Fall-off analysis in presence
of free-gas saturation · Well completions, injection well operations, producing well
operations, sources and treatment of injection water, water injection systems · Monitoring of waterfloods, performance indicators, waterflood decline
curves, data used in performance analysis, causes of waterflood failures,
tracer tests Course Instructor:
Professor Brij Maini, PhD, P.Eng. Brij
Maini is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum
Engineering at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. He is a
registered Professional Engineer with over 20 years of experience in the
petroleum industry. He has been
involved in waterflooding research, teaches undergraduate and graduate
courses on secondary and tertiary recovery methods and has authored several
papers on immiscible displacement behavior and relative permeability
characteristics. Dr. Maini obtained a B.Tech. degree from
the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
the University of Washington. What to bring: Course material will be
provided. Class members are asked to bring a calculator and enthusiasm. Schedule: Calgary:
TBA Costs: The
course fee will be $1,950.00 + GST per person for paid registrations received
on or before the registration deadline. For
paid registrations received after the deadline, the fee will be
$2,350.00 + GST per person. A full
refund is available where written notice of cancellation is submitted no
later than 10 working days prior to course start date. Venue and Registration Details: Venue and registration details are available from ATECH (Attention: Shelley Nickless) by: Phone: (403)
261-0005 Fax: (403) 261-0006 E-mail:
courses@atech.ca Click
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