Waterflooding and Secondary Recovery Design

📅 Day 1: Fundamentals of Waterflooding

• 09:00–09:45 – Introduction to secondary recovery methods

• 09:45–10:30 – Waterflooding objectives and key mechanisms

• 10:30–10:45 – ☕ Coffee Break

• 10:45–11:30 – Immiscible displacement theory: frontal advance model

• 11:30–12:15 – Mobility ratio and its impact on sweep

• 12:15–13:15 – 🍽️ Lunch Break

• 13:15–14:00 – Volumetric calculations and waterflood potential

• 14:00–14:45 – Practical: calculate recovery factor and pattern volume

• 14:45–15:00 – Recap and Q&A

📅 Day 2: Waterflood Pattern Design

• 09:00–09:45 – Areal sweep efficiency and pattern types

• 09:45–10:30 – 5-spot, 7-spot, inverted 9-spot, and line drive

• 10:30–10:45 – ☕ Coffee Break

• 10:45–11:30 – Pattern spacing and well placement strategy

• 11:30–12:15 – Reservoir heterogeneity and pattern modification

• 12:15–13:15 – 🍽️ Lunch Break

• 13:15–14:00 – Gravity segregation and vertical sweep

• 14:00–14:45 – Hands-on: pattern layout on field map

• 14:45–15:00 – Recap and Q&A

📅 Day 3: Injection Management and Performance Prediction

• 09:00–09:45 – Injection rate design and voidage replacement

• 09:45–10:30 – Water quality, compatibility, and filtration

• 10:30–10:45 – ☕ Coffee Break

• 10:45–11:30 – Injection profiles and conformance issues

• 11:30–12:15 – Analytical prediction methods (Craig-Geffen-Morse)

• 12:15–13:15 – 🍽️ Lunch Break

• 13:15–14:00 – Use of simulation in injection optimization

• 14:00–14:45 – Hands-on: injectivity and pattern balancing

• 14:45–15:00 – Recap and Q&A

📅 Day 4: Waterflood Surveillance and Optimization

• 09:00–09:45 – Flood monitoring techniques: PR plots, Hall plots

• 09:45–10:30 – Pressure transient and interference tests

• 10:30–10:45 – ☕ Coffee Break

• 10:45–11:30 – Identifying and correcting poor sweep areas

• 11:30–12:15 – Tracer tests and water front tracking

• 12:15–13:15 – 🍽️ Lunch Break

• 13:15–14:00 – Use of software tools for performance tracking

• 14:00–14:45 – Group exercise: analyze flood performance dataset

• 14:45–15:00 – Recap and Q&A

📅 Day 5: Case Studies and Field Development Planning

• 09:00–09:45 – Case study 1: mature field waterflood revival

• 09:45–10:30 – Case study 2: offshore waterflood optimization

• 10:30–10:45 – ☕ Coffee Break

• 10:45–11:30 – Integration with reservoir simulation models

• 11:30–12:15 – Economics of waterflooding

• 12:15–13:15 – 🍽️ Lunch Break

• 13:15–14:00 – Team activity: design a basic waterflood strategy

• 14:00–14:45 – Presentation and peer review

• 14:45–15:00 – Wrap-up and certification