Waterflood Forecasting Overview
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
This skill module is a survey of the most popular methods used to forecast waterfloods. Here we discuss strengths and weaknesses and expose assumptions on which each technique is built.
Target Audience
Reservoir, production, facilities, and operations engineers who are involved with some aspects of a new or existing waterflood project; geoscientists and professionals who want to get a better feel for the entire process of planning, development, management, and recovery optimization of a waterflood project.
You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- Describe multiple statistical methods of predicting waterflood performance
- Describe multiple analytical methods of predicting waterflood performance
- Describe multiple numerical methods of predicting waterflood performance
- Compare the strengths and weaknesses of these prediction methods
