WATER production problems

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Introduction logging tools

Mechanisms for water

Water production problems
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Remedial plane Recommended

Water production problems

Introduction

All oil fields under water drive, either from waterflood or a

natural aquifer, eventually produce of water along with oil.

Water production problems

Introduction
Problem Possible Reason Tools
1-High water cut Casing, tubing or packer leaks -1  PLT
Channel flow behind casing -2  WFL
Moving oil-water contact -3 
Coning -4 

5- Watered-out layer without cross flow

6- Fractures or faults between injector and
producer
7- Watered-out layer with crossflow
8- Gravity-segregated layer
9- Fractures or faults from a water layer
(vertical well).
10- Fractures or faults from a water layer
(horizontal well).

Water production problems

 1-Casing, tubing or packer leaks

 Mechanism
 Leaks through casing, tubing or packers allow water from
non- oil-productive zones to enter the production string.

OIL
 REASONS :
 High pressure
 Bad cementing Casing leak

water

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1-Casing, tubing or packer leaks

Solution
 shutoff using plugs, cement and packers

plugs

oil

water

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2-Channel flow behind casing

Mechanism
These channels allow water to flow behind casing in
the annulus and it inside into wellbore.
Oil
Reasons
Poor cement

 failed cementing primary

water

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2-Channel flow behind casing

Solution
 gel (quite small path)
 squeeze cement
gel & cement

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 3-Moving oil-water contact
Mechanism

 A uniform oil water contact moving up into a perforated zone in a

well during normal water-driven production can lead to unwanted
water production.
oil
OWc

water

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 3-Moving oil-water contact
 solution
In horizontal wells: In a vertical well:
 cement plug or bridge with
 Side track Reperforation

Side track

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 4-water coning
 MECHANISM :

 During production of oil, the pressure drop in the well tends

to draw-up water from the aquifer towards the lowest
completion interval at the well.

 REASONS :
 high production rate
 Lower density difference
 High vertical permeability
 OWC
 Oil mobility

Water coning

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 4-water coning
Solution
Reduction of production rate Recompletion

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 Detection
Logging tools :
Production logging tool(PLT)
Water flow log (WFL)
Temperature log .

Are used to diagnose a variety of production problems

and for reservoir evaluation. A primary use of PLT is the
identification of water entry into producing wells.

Water production problems

 Detection
PLT tools
1-GR
2-CCL
3-calliper
4-Centralizers
5-Flow-meter(spinner)
6-Temperature
7-Pressure
8-Density
9-capacitance

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 Detection

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Monitoring water production

Monitoring water production in wells is very important

 corrosion asphaltenes. Gas hydrate.

Water production problems

 Monitoring water production

• decreasing of oil production

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Recommendation

high water production in all the oil reservoirs is consider from the
production problems which it adversely impact to the oil production

1- monitoring the wells production continuously, in order to identify the water

production problem and provide remedial plan best and with low cost .
2- pressure maintenance during the secondary recovery To maintain reservoir
productivity and lower the water cut .
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