Waterflooding & Improved Oil Recovery: Monitoring, Optimisation & Troubleshooting
Most waterfloods underperform their design — the difference between plan and performance is usually surveillance nobody did.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Waterflooding remains the workhorse of improved recovery — and one of the most quietly mismanaged. This programme works the full discipline: flood design reviewed against reservoir reality; the surveillance toolkit — injection and production data, pattern balancing, Hall plots, tracers — read as a working system; conformance problems diagnosed and treated; water quality and injectivity maintained rather than mourned; and the optimisation decisions that recover reserves the original design left behind. For engineers who own a flood and want it to earn its cost.
What you will do
Who attends
Reservoir, production and petroleum engineers on waterflooded assets; field development teams; technical leads planning secondary recovery.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The flood as designed — and as found
- Design assumptions revisited: patterns, rates, voidage
- Reservoir heterogeneity: where the water actually goes
- The performance gap quantified before it is explained
II.Surveillance and diagnosis
- The toolkit: Hall plots, pattern balancing, injection logs, tracers
- Conformance problems: thief zones, out-of-zone injection, channelling
- Water quality: souring, scaling, solids — prevention over cure
III.Optimising the flood
- Rate and pattern changes ranked by incremental recovery
- Conformance treatments: when they pay, when they decorate
- The business case per action: barrels per dollar, honestly
Frequently asked
Do the programmes cover the energy transition as well as conventional operations?
Both. The curriculum spans oil and gas operations, drilling project and risk management, ESG, and the global energy transition — including how conventional operators finance and sequence the shift. Participants leave able to weigh transition decisions with the same rigour they apply to an operating asset.
Is project finance for energy and infrastructure covered?
Yes — advanced project finance analysis and modelling, PPP and infrastructure finance, and the financing of oil, gas and mining projects all sit in the curriculum. Participants leave able to build and stress a project-finance model and defend the structure to lenders and boards.
How do we enrol a team on an energy programme?
Send an enquiry or brochure request from the programme page; a senior practitioner responds within one business day with the brochure and the options for your group. Team cohorts are arranged through that proposal — including a private, in-house edition when the whole unit should train together.
Who typically attends the energy and utilities programmes?
Engineers, operations managers, project and commercial leaders, and HSE and finance professionals from oil and gas, power, utilities and mining. Regulators and national companies attend alongside private operators, which sharpens the discussion on both sides.
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Knowledge transfer, emphasised throughout
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From the Mandate Record
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Recovery and resolution plans that stood up to the supervisor — twice
A recovery plan is not a document. It is an argument the board must win under stress.
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The Capability Arc™
Fix it · Advisory
Recovery & Resolution Planning
A credible, executable recovery and resolution plan.
Automate it · Smart IT
Toolkits & Accelerators
Proven toolkits that shorten the build.
Learning is one point on the Capability Arc. Many institutions pair this programme with the advisory engagement — and automate what the framework demands.
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Take the brochure with you.
One request — the full agenda, the faculty and the next cohort dates, sent personally by the admissions team.