Water Flooding Design for Defa Oil Field

Currently, water-flooding is responsible for a big portion of world oil production. The vertical sweep efficiency and the areal coverage each of these requires careful sampling to get represented reservoir rock and fluid properties measures of reservoir heterogeneity, Economically, a pilot is a desirable tool for studying oil recovery performance on reservoir sample and then scaled up to yield the performance to be expected from field performance. Defa field was produced since 1968 with good oil flow rate reaching 200,000 BOPD but during the life of the field, the production decreased to 50,000 BOPD in 2001. So, this study was conducted to increase oil production by add some energy to the reservoir to increase average reservoir pressure and try to maintain it to initial pressure and to increase displacement and sweep efficiency. The water flooding design was implemented in sector model in the Defa field using five spots pattern. The study was performed by using Excel and Water Drive software to achieve a good water flooding design. When comparing the results obtained from two calculation methods, the minimum error was equal 0.03 percent and the maximum error was around 12 percent. So, the results were acceptable and the process was recommended to the Defa-field. Keywords: Water flooding; Software; Fractional Flow, Break through.