Improving Water Flooding Management through Facies Remodeling and the Use of Streamlines and Finite Difference Simulators

A successful water flooding project requires continuous surveillance and updated studies. The use of modern tools practices is also essential to achieve maximum oil recovery. Field ‘X’ lies in the Western Desert Egypt. Although field employs as a secondary recovery mechanism, it suffers from low recovery, sweep efficiency high water’s production rates. In 2014, development plan was issued with target factor 30% using flooding. However, actual has significantly underperformed initial forecasts, motivating re-evaluation old plan. particular, considered necessary revisit underlying geologic concept how this incorporated into flow simulation forecasts. aim maximize before resorting an expensive tertiary plan; especially, under current prices. This paper discusses value updating both static dynamic models better incorporate uncertainty associated facies distribution. It demonstrates streamline reallocate injection rates determining role communication improving areal efficiency. new scheme supported by modelling study added incremental reserve 6.5% unlocked 28% place field. Keywords: Water-flooding; Facies; Streamline; Simulation