Investigation of Waterflooding in an Oil Reservoir by Streamline Simulation

Abstract

Perhaps Waterflooding is the most popular method of secondary recovery to pressure stability and support a higher withdrawal rate but the large of produced water in waterflooding of offshore oil reservoir is one of the most important oil industry problems. So determining of optimized injection rate for injection wells is one of the important factors in a successful waterflooding. Like using conventional finite difference method, developments of streamline methods lets streamline based reservoir simulation has a lot of effects on solving complex geologically large and heterogeneous reservoir and also streamline simulation is explained in the text of producer and injector usage, relationship between injectors and producers and well allocation factors.So using of streamline simulators is a suitable method to manage waterflooding in oil reservoir. The purpose of this paper is to explain the usage of streamline method for a waterflooding simulation in an Iranian offshore oil reservoir that leads to optimization of water injection rate for decreasing the produced water from reservoir.