Waterflooding Management and Identifying IOR Opportunities in a Mature Reservoir

This thesis has identified opportunities to improve production performance by utilizing secondary and tertiary recovery strategies in a mature oil reservoir. The identification techniques include analytical methods and simulation studies on field performance. Recommendations based on the field study and well performance were provided. A reservoir simulation study was carried out using Eclipse to conduct production predictions based on the recommendation. It can be concluded that infill drilling is the most effective way to develop this field and increase oil recovery. The result of this work will help the operator to improve reservoir management of the field and will also provide guidance in identifying areas that are suitable for a new infill drilling campaign.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Petroleum Engineering

Grantor

University of Houston

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Zhu, Yidan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Thakur, Ganesh C.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Farouq Ali, S. M.
• Qin, Guan

• Reservoir management
• Waterflooding
• IOR

Statement dc:rights

• The author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10657/5556

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uh-ir.tdl.org:10657/5556