This comprehensive sharing knowledge experience addresses the technologies and methods applied in the oil industry to control and mitigate the excessive water production in oil and gas production wells, which causes detrimental effects on the oil production rates and recovery factors.
It includes a review of the reservoir parameters leading to excessive water production, the methods to identify the water paths as thief zones, high permeability layers, fractures, and water coning, and the methods to mitigate or block out the produced water, improving the volumetric sweep efficiency of waterflooding and natural water drives.
The knowledge transfer provides fundamentals of the water shut-off and conformance control methods used in the oil industry, reviews reservoir parameters that influence water production and describes mechanical methods such as bridge plugs, cement plugs, inflatable packers, elastomers, the chemical methods with crosslinked polymer gels, and other chemicals to improve conformance.
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The technology transfer pursuits the following objectives:
Review/discuss the parameters influencing the water production.
Study gel system as a method of blocking permeability and redistributing the water drive.
Review the methods to control the excessive produced water.
Understand the applications of polymer gels and polymer gel selection.
Learn techniques to optimize single well treatments.
Etc.
It is recommended for personnel from oil operators and service companies that need to understand the methods to reduce the produced water and increase oil rates (as well as the possibilities and implications of implementing Water shut off operations) such as:
Geologist and Petrophysicists.
Production Engineers.
Facilities Engineers.
Reservoir Engineers and Reservoir Managers.
Well and Completion Engineers.
Operation and Field Engineers.
Technical Personnel.
Here is the testimonial of Mr. Saleh, a Chemical Engineer from Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO).
For further information regarding this and others sharing knowledge and experiences, contact Mr. Julio Herbas.
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