Description

Injection water management is a critical component to offshore well operation.

UTWID allows the user to address: How clean is clean? What filtration specs should I use? Can I inject raw seawater? How much oil in produced water will my injection well tolerate? How fast is a fracture growing? How often will the injection well require remedial treatment to regain injectivity? What is the right balance between injection water treatment costs and injection well stimulation costs? Should I fracture the injection wells?

Benefits

Reduced risk and optimal operation of water injection wells.

Features

• Simulation of Core Flow Tests
  
• Model injectivity decline of cores
  
• Compare results from coreflood experiments
  
• Determine rock filtration properties to be used for field cases
  
• Simulation of Injectivity Decline and Fracture Growth in Vertical Wells
  
• Model injectivity decline of vertical wells due to plugging by suspended particles
  
• Can handle both openhole and perforated completions
  
• Predict the initiation and growth of injection well fractures due to particle plugging
  
• Account for thermal stresses and pore pressure effects
  
• Can handle injection and fracture growth into non-communicating multi-layered reservoirs
  
• Simulation of Injectivity Decline in Horizontal Wells
  
• Model injectivity decline in horizontal wells
  
• Can handle both openhole and perforated cases
  
• Market Potential/Applications

Market Potential/Applications

UTWID is a software simulation tool for well operators.

Contact:

University of Texas,
Austin, USA
Website : www.otc.utexas.edu