Course Program: Waterflooding A to Z - WF
Target Audience: Reservoir, production, facilities, & operations engineers who are involved with some aspects of a new or existing waterflood project; geoscientists & professionals who want to get a better feel for the entire process of planning, development, management, & recovery optimization of a waterflood project.

Waterflooding has long been proven as the simplest and the lowest cost approach tomaintaining production and increasing oil recovery from an oil reservoir. However, these benefits may fall far short of the expectations unless the time-tested concepts and practices are clearly understood and judiciously implemented. These concepts and practices aim at process optimization - reducing production cost while minimizing waste and maximizing oil recovery and income.This course is light on theory but heavy on proven and successful practices. Published case histories of projects around the world are reviewed to provide an understanding of divergent points-of-view, what works where, what fails when, and why. This training covers all elements of a waterflood project from A to Z - from source water selection to produced water disposal and everything in between. Participants are grouped into small multi-disciplinary teams. All classroom discussions and problem-solving sessions are handled in an asset managementteam format. Simulation studies are done in class to evaluate basic waterflooding physics as well as to optimize the development of a hypothetical field. The course covers conventional reservoirs.