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Water Flooding
1865
In Earliest Days started at a Single well and then
Field
Grew to Oklahoma in 1931and then to Texas in
1936
Widespread application started in early 1950
ED
EV
EA x EI
EA
EI
Plan
Design Considerations
Reservoir Characterization Geoscience and
Engineering Data
Potential Flooding Plans Peripheral, Pattern, Well
Spacing
Estimate Injection, Production Rates
Facilities Design Fluid Volumes and Rates for
Delineation
Reservoir
Management
Abandonment
Tertiary
Development
Primary
Professionals Involved
Exploration - Geologists, Geophysicists
Discovery - Drilling and Reservoir Engineers
Petrophysicists
Delineation - Sam as above
Development - Reservoir, Drilling, Operation, and
Facilities Engineers
Production Production Engineers
Performance
Forecast Performance under Peripheral
W-9
-4
29
-4270
-4
28
30
W-8
-4 28
-42 50
W-3
-4 24
-42 30
-427
W-2
-4 28
-4220
-428
0
W-1
-4 24
-423 0
W-4
W-5
-4
28
-42 50
-4
-427
W-8
28
-4
W-7
-4 29
29
0
-4
28
-4 30
Development Cases
Case 2
Case 1
Case 5
Case 4
12000
Case 3
Case
Case
Case
Case
Case
1
2
3
4
5
Peripheral
Peripheral
Pattern
Pattern
Pattern
5
9
1
4
12
4
8
4
9
13
10000
Secondary
8000
6000
Primary
4000
2000
0
0.00
Depletion
5.00
10.00
15.00
20.00
25.00
30.00
TIME (Years)
Depletion
Case-1
Case-2
Case-3
Case-4
Case-5
0.5
0.4
Case-2
Case-4
0.3
Case-5
Case-1
Case-3
0.2
0.1
0
0
0.25
0.5
0.75
Case-2
Case-3
Case-4
Case-5
Economic Criteria
Payout Time Time needed to recover investment
Discounted Cash Flow Rate of Return Maximum
Case-2
Case-3
Case-4
Case-5
1.853
4.882
0.973
3.484
8.799
1.965
5.138
1.378
3.176
5.105
15
15
15
15
15
2.58
1.78
2.44
2.74
2.28
Discounted Cash
Flow Return on
Investment, %
69.64
131.15
80.12
87.83
104.84
Profit-toInvestment Ratio
16.88
16.44
23.32
13.91
8.74
Development
Costs, $/STBO
0.94
0.95
0.71
1.10
1.72
Capital
Investment, $MM
Reserves,
MMSTBO
Project Life
Payout Time, Years