Approximately 20 billion barrels of water are reinjected in the US every year. Any technology that minimizes the amount of water or gas produced in conjunction with the produced oil would have a significant impact on the energy consumption and on the cost oil production. There are many factors, such as the presence of thief zones or high permeability zones, fractures and water coning which lead to an increase in water production. In an attempt to block out the undesired water production and increase the volumetric sweep efficiency of on-going waterfloods, the industry has used crosslinked polymer gels. The process involves strategically injecting a gelling fluid into water coning well or into a high permeability watered out zone, restricting flow in that zone and redirecting water flow into the lower permeability unswept oil zones. Thus water shut off and conformance-control treatments can be used to generate relatively large volumes of incremental oil production with low costs and selectively, targeted small volume treatments, which extends the economic lives of marginal and mature wells. 

1.      Review and study of the RESERVOIR ROCK AND FLUID PROPERTIES  

2.      Review and study of OIL DISPLACEMENT BY WATERFLOODING

3.      Review and Analysis of the KEY FACTORS IN THE WATERFLOODING PROCESS

4.      The Gelling System as a predominant method of blocking permeability and redistributing water drive

5.      Field Applications of Polymer Gel Systems, 

6.      Polymer gel selection 

7.      Study of proper identification of the water-production mechanism, 

8.      Study and analysis of appropriate selection of wells.

9.      Selection of the water control agent, 

10.   Methods of water control agent placement and treatment design   

11.   A diagnostic and Solutions of water production problem based on qualitative analysis of reservoir characteristics, production data and well test results.

12.   Moreover, the usual technique to optimize single well treatments.

13.   What experience has taught us?

14.   What are the latest advance and what is coming and needed.

1. Reservoir Rock And Fluid Properties  

2. Reservoir Conformance and Profile Modification

3.  Introduction to Polymer Gels 

4. What Experience Has Taught Us
   Latest Advance and what is coming and needed

Reservoir and Production Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Geologists, Field operations Technical personnel.