OPTIMIZATION OF WATER FLOODING

USING SMART WELL TECHNOLOGY

Presented By
Zohaib Ahmed K15PG52 (G.L)
Muhammad Tahir K15PG28 (A.G.L)
Mohsin Ali K15PG20 (Member)
Aijaz Hussain K15PG51 (Member)
Abdul Qadir K15PG66 (Member)

Supervised By
Engr. Faisal Hussain Memon (Assistant Professor)
Dated 25/ 04/2018
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Outline
 Introduction

 Literature Review

 Scope of Research work

 Problem statement and proposed solution

 Objectives

 Methodology

 Work Plan

 References
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Introduction
 Water injection has been one of the most effective methods to improve oil recovers as it can
be used to maintain the reservoir pressure and displace oil toward producers.
 Due to excess water production from coning, breakthrough in the water flooding process
that ultimately causes the abandonment of oil field.
 Smart well technology (ICVs) are believe to be the most important technology in order to
enhance sweep efficiency and maximize oil recovery.
 Reservoir simulator Eclipse 100 is used to model the reservoir and control the ICV action in
the injection well.
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Literature Review
Published
Author Summary
Year
The aim of this study is to optimize
Precious Ogbeiwi 2017 waterflooding from a case study model using
reservoir simulation techniques.
This paper aims at showing how intelligent
injection of flood fluids can enhance sweep
Philip Asante-Mireku 2016
efficiency and maximize oil
recovery.
His work presents a methodology where
waterflooding is being controlled by smart
Oluwafisayo Meshioye 2010
injector well technology to help optimize or
increase the net present value of the field.
In the current study we focus on water
flooding with fully penetrating, smart, 4
D.R. Brouwer 2001 horizontal wells in 2 dimensional, horizontal
reservoirs with simple, large-scale
 Scope of work
 In Pakistan there are many fields where this technique can applied to drain the
reservoir efficiently.
 This work focus on Smart Well Technology which can increase in oil recovery
resulted in a subsequent increase in NPV (Net-Present Value) justifying its
economic viability.
 In current economical scenario of petroleum industry smart well completion is
best technique to use in an oil-wet system than water-wet system and also it is
better with a stimulated well than damaged formation (Positive Skin)
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 Problem statement
In most of the cases the water flooding in heterogeneous reservoirs can cause
the water fingering resulting early water break through and affect the
production performance of a reservoir by excessive water production which
leads to abandonment of the oil field.

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Proposed solution
Smart well technology is the better solution which can reduce injection in
efficiencies such as water fingering and it is achieved by the use of a
reservoir simulator to model an intelligent injection well by placing ICVs
vulnerable zones with high possibilities of water fingering.
Reactive control strategy (RCS) was adopted to help control the
movement of the injected water as a displacement fluid to delay water
fingering and hence increase oil recovery.

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 SMART WELL TECHNOLOGY
 When inflow control valves are used on wells they are called
smart wells
 Smart well technology is a non-conventional well with
downhole instrumentation (Sensors, valves and inflow
control devices) installed on the production or the injection
tubing.
 Smart well technology gives us the opportunity to counteract
the effect of high permeability zones that have high influence
on the recovery because they can cause early water break
through and trapping of by-passed oil.
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Objectives
 To minimize unwanted fluid production by using Smart well technology
through Simulation.

 To enhance sweep efficiency and To increase ultimate oil recovery.

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 Literature Review
Methodology Data Acquisition

Simulation Modeling
(Eclipse 100)
Water Flooding using
Conventional Water
Smart well
Flooding
Technology

Comparison

NO Result Satisfactory NO

Economical Analysis

Results and
Discussion

Conclusion 10
Work Plan
Items April May June July August September October

Literature review

Data Acquisition
Modeling &
Simulation
Result & Analysis
Thesis write up &
Submission

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References
 Meshioye, O., Mackay, E., Ekeoma, E., & Martinez, C. (2010, January). Optimization of
waterflooding using smart well technology. In Nigeria Annual International Conference and
Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 Ogbeiwi, P., Aladeitan, Y., & Udebhulu, D. (2018). An approach to waterflood optimization: case
study of the reservoir X. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 8(1), 271-
289.
 Asante-Mireku, P., Okyere-Nyako, K., & Tetteh, J. T. Intelligent Well Technology: Incorporation of
Smart Controls in Injection Wells to Enhance Sweep Efficiency and Maximize Oil Recovery.
 Ramakrishnan, T. S. (2003, January). On reservoir fluid-flow control with smart completions.
In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers.

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 Contd.
 Grema, A. S. (2014). Optimization of Reservoir Waterflooding.
 Ramakrishnan, T. S. (2003, January). On reservoir fluid-flow control with smart completions.
In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 Saputelli, L. A., Ramirez, K., Chegin, J. M., & Cullick, A. S. (2009, January). Waterflood Recovery
Optimization Using Intelligent Wells and Decision Analysis. In Latin American and Caribbean
Petroleum Engineering Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 Brouwer, D. R., Jansen, J. D., Van der Starre, S., Van Kruijsdijk, C. P. J. W., & Berentsen, C. W. J.
(2001, January). Recovery increase through water flooding with smart well technology. In SPE
European Formation Damage Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 Brouwer, D. R., Jansen, J. D., Van der Starre, S., Van Kruijsdijk, C. P. J. W., & Berentsen, C. W. J.
(2001, January). Recovery increase through water flooding with smart well technology. In SPE
European Formation Damage Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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