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Water Flooding Performance Analysis

The document provides a tutorial on water flooding in a reservoir using a 5-spot flood pattern, detailing calculations for flood performance from start to interference, fill-up, and breakthrough. Key parameters include porosity, reservoir thickness, initial saturations, and injection rates, with specific calculations leading to results such as interference time of 80.18 days and breakthrough time of 334.4 days. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of various performance metrics and their calculations in reservoir management.

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Water Flooding Performance Analysis

The document provides a tutorial on water flooding in a reservoir using a 5-spot flood pattern, detailing calculations for flood performance from start to interference, fill-up, and breakthrough. Key parameters include porosity, reservoir thickness, initial saturations, and injection rates, with specific calculations leading to results such as interference time of 80.18 days and breakthrough time of 334.4 days. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of various performance metrics and their calculations in reservoir management.

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1 WATER FLOODING TUTORIAL 6

Excersis-1: The following data is available from a reservoir


being developing by 5-spot flood pattern

Porosity = 20%
K = 31.5
Reservoir thickness = 5 ft
Initial oil saturation, Soi = 0.75
Initial gas saturation, Sgi = 0.15
Initial water saturation, Swi = 0.1
∆p between producer and injector is constant=3000 psi
Half distance between injectors, rei = 660 ft
Distance between producer and injector, d = 932 ft
M = 0.8
EABT = 0.717
Flood pore volume =310320 bbl
Average water saturation at breakthrough = 0.563
Wellbore radius = 1ft
Oil viscosity = 0.5 cp Water viscosity = 1 cp
Kro at Swi = 0.4 Krw at average swbt =1 Bo=1.2 Rb/STB

Calculate:
1- Performance of the flood from start till interference
2- Performance of the flood at fill up
3- Performance of the flood from fill up till BT

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2 WATER FLOODING TUTORIAL 6

Solution
1- Performance of the flood from start till interference

πh∅ Sgi r2ei π x 5 x 0.2 x 0.15 6602


Wii = = = 36572 𝑏𝑏𝑙
5.615 5.615

Assume several Winj (greater than 500 to less than 36572 bbl)
(See the table).
Prepare the equations to calculate r and ro at each assumed
Winj

5.615 Winj 5.615 Winj


ro = √ =√ = 3.452√𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑗
πh∅ Sgi π x 5 x 0.2 x 0.15

Sgi 0.15
r = ro √ − = √ = 0.562 𝑟𝑜
Swbt − Swi 0.563 − 0.1

Prepare the injectivity equation:

0.00707 h k ∆p 0.00707x 5 x31.5 x3000


iw = μ r μ r =
( w ln + o ln o ) 0.5 r 1 ro
K rw rw K ro r ( ln + ln )
0.4 1 1 r

3340
iw = ro
(1.25 ln 𝑟 + ln )
r

Perform all calculation for each assumed Winj and organise


them in a table:

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The interference time tii will occur at 80.18 days after the start
of water injection at injection rate at interference of 418.9
bb/day. Before oil bank interference, the injection rate
decreases because the radii of the oil and water banks are
continuously increasing.

2- Recovery performance at fill up


Form previous section and as can be seen from the table that
time to interference tii will occur at 80.18 days after the start
of injection with injection rate at interference, iwi of 419
bbl/day
Wif = Pv Sgi = 310320 𝑥 0.15 = 46550 𝑏𝑏𝑙

𝑊𝑖𝑓 46550
𝐸𝐴 = = = 0.324
𝑃𝑉 (𝑆 − 𝑤𝑏𝑡 − 𝑆𝑤𝑖 ) 310320 (0.563 − 0.1)

Use M and Ea in the following figure to determine the


conductance ratio, then the conductance ratio = 0.96
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0.003541 (5)(31.5)(1)(3000) 0.003541 h k k rw ∆p


iw base = =
932 d
1 ⌊ln − 0.619⌋ μ w ⌊ln − 0.619⌋
1 rw
iw base = 269.1 bbl/day

iwf = γ iw base = 0.96 x 269.1 = 258.2 bbl/day

Calculate the incremented time occurring from interference to


fill-up

Winj − Wii 46550 − 36752


∆t = = = 29.5 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠
iwi + iwf 418.9 + 258.2
2 2

Then time to fill-up = 80.2 +29.5 = 109.7 days

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3- Performance of the flood from fill up till BT

−
𝑊𝑖𝐵𝑇 = 𝑃𝑣( 𝑆𝑤𝐵𝑇 − 𝑆𝑤𝑖 )𝐸𝐴𝐵𝑇 = 310320(0.563 − 0.1) 0.717

𝑊𝑖𝐵𝑇 = 103020 𝑏𝑏𝑙

Assume several values of Winj (From Wif to Wibt) and perform


the calculation and tabulate them as follow:

Breakthrough time will occur after 334.4 days from the start
of flood

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