Published November 2015
Development of a computer program for water flood surveillance
T.Sh. Salavatov1An essential key to a successful water flooding project is a well-planned and well-executed program of surveillance and monitoring. Production curves are very valuable tools for monitoring and detecting changes in well and reservoir performance. Production performance can provide clues as to the nature of reservoir behavior. As a general objective, a surveillance program should allow for the maximum oil recovery to be achieved at the lowest water-oil ratio and operation cost. There are useful plotting and diagnostic techniques and procedures that are designed to supplement prediction methods and assist in quantifying the flood performance. In this paper, some of these techniques are briefly discussed and C# programming language was used to develop the computer program. Different water flood surveillance methods were included in the developed program. The program contains Hall Plot, X-Plot, Pattern Balancing, and Volumetric Sweep Efficiency.
