It is estimated that the oil industry produces around 210 million barrels of water together with its daily production of 75 million barrels of water. The annual cost of production, treatment, and re-injection or disposal of this water exceeds 40 billion dollars. Yet this enormous cost is small compared to the value of the oil which is often by-passed by the flowing water and left behind in the reservoir. Uncontrolled flow of water reduces the sweep efficiency of oil and gas in the reservoir, thus reducing the recoverable reserves. It is this element of water flow that costs the industry the most.

Controlling and managing produced water increases its beneficial effects, improves the sweep efficiency of oil in the reservoir, increases the recoverable reserves as well as daily oil and production. It also reduces the injected water volume necessary to conduct an efficient water flood and the costs associated with its treatment and injection, as well as the costs of its production, separation, treatment and disposal. In addition, lesser volumes of injected and produced water create less corrosion, scale, sand production, and, need for chemicals to treat the injected and produced water.

 Past efforts to manage and reduce water flow have not been successful in many reservoirs. There are two root causes for this. First, the initial well completion techniques are not suited for later management of water flow. Second, the technical staff is not skilled in water management technology and thus is not comfortable with making decisions in this area. They rely heavily on the advice of the service companies who unfortunately do not have the necessary knowledge of the reservoirs to make best use of their application knowledge.

About the Workshop

The best way to optimize benefits from this one week long workshop is to make sure the discussions are “interactive” and pertinent to specific situations in the oil fields of interest to the audience. In this “interactive” approach, once the subject is defined, the focus moves to the specific situations of interest to the group. The group will be divided into teams based on their work location. Each team will take an example from one of their fields, and with the help of the instructor, will develop a plan for controlling the water flow. In this approach the content is very flexible and the intent is help encourage the audience to develop the ability to analyze specific situations and make critical decisions. Additionally, it enables them to be “well-informed” buyers of the services that are offered to them by the service and product suppliers, and to make sure some of the better options for managing these reservoirs are made available to them by their service providers.

 About Dr Ali Daneshy

Dr Daneshy is the President of Daneshy Consultants International. He is the retired Vice President of Integrated Technology Products (ITP) in Halliburton Energy Services. He has thirty years of experience in dealing and solving many engineering and operational problems encountered by the industry throughout the world. He is the author of numerous technical papers on well stimulation, production from tight reservoirs, reservoir engineering, formation damage, economics of well production, etc. As Vice President of ITP he managed and led the development and introduction of conformance/produced water management, multilateral wells, smart wells, under-balanced drilling, and many other novel and innovative technologies. These new technologies offer better and more cost-effective ways of enhancing the productivity of oil and gas reservoirs and overcoming difficulties encountered during their production.

 Dr Daneshy has taught many courses and lectured extensively throughout the world. He has been a guest lecturer in many universities in Europe, and US. He has worked in North Sea, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and, US. He is the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Service (1994) and Distinguished Member (1990) awards.

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