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Produced Water Management, Treatment & Reinjection Training Course

Teaches how to treat oilfield produced water to oil-in-water and injection quality targets and manage its reinjection, disposal and reuse safely.

UPS · Upstream Operations, Exploration, Drilling, Reservoir & ProductionAll Levels#2979ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Oil & GasCategories:Upstream Operations, Exploration, Drilling, Reservoir & Production

Course Overview

This training course provides a practical, field-focused understanding of how produced water is characterized, treated, reinjected, and disposed of over the life of an oil field. As fields mature, water volumes frequently grow well beyond oil volumes, and the way this water is handled directly governs facility capacity, operating cost, reservoir pressure support, well integrity, and environmental compliance. The course follows produced water from the separator water outlet to its final destination. Participants examine water composition and contaminants, oil-in-water measurement, droplet behavior, and the main deoiling technologies, including skim tanks, corrugated plate interceptors, hydrocyclones, induced and dissolved gas flotation, nutshell filters, and fine filtration, together with water clarifier chemistry and the selection of a complete treatment train. A strong focus is placed on injection water quality and the subsurface: solids and oil limits, scaling and water compatibility, sulfate-reducing bacteria and reservoir souring, oxygen and corrosion control, injectivity decline, injection above fracture pressure, and the surveillance of injection and disposal wells using Hall plots, step-rate tests, and pressure falloff tests. Through water analysis exercises, case studies, and troubleshooting scenarios, participants learn to diagnose off-specification water, protect injectivity and well integrity, and build a produced water management plan that balances regulatory requirements, cost, and reliability. Crude oil dehydration and general utility water treatment are covered in separate courses and appear here only where they interface with produced water systems.

Learning Objectives

  • By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Analyze the origin, composition, and contaminants of produced water and how they change over field life.
  • Evaluate produced water management options, including reinjection for pressure support, disposal, discharge, and reuse.
  • Apply sampling and oil-in-water measurement methods and interpret water analysis results.
  • Explain droplet behavior and the separation principles behind deoiling equipment.
  • Evaluate the operation of skim tanks, plate interceptors, hydrocyclones, gas flotation units, and nutshell filters.
  • Select water clarifiers, flocculants, and treatment chemicals and optimize their dosing.
  • Define injection water quality specifications for solids, oil, oxygen, bacteria, and scaling potential.
  • Assess water compatibility, scale risk, and reservoir souring when mixing produced water with other water sources.
  • Analyze injectivity decline and the impact of water quality on injection and disposal well performance.
  • Interpret Hall plots, step-rate tests, and falloff tests to monitor injection well behavior and containment.
  • Diagnose common produced water system upsets and recommend corrective actions.
  • Develop an integrated produced water management plan with clear performance indicators.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for production engineers, process and facilities engineers, water treatment engineers, reservoir and injection engineers, production chemists, operations supervisors, and field and control room operators responsible for produced water treatment, water injection, and disposal systems. It is particularly relevant to professionals in oil and gas production companies operating onshore gathering centers, gas-oil separation plants, and offshore platforms, as well as water injection and disposal well operators, oilfield chemical suppliers, and engineering contractors designing water handling facilities. The program is also valuable for environmental and HSE specialists, integrity and corrosion engineers, laboratory personnel, and managers who make decisions on water handling capacity, injection strategy, and discharge compliance.

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Describe the full produced water handling chain from separator outlet to injection, disposal, or discharge.
  • Characterize produced water using laboratory and field analysis data.
  • Explain how oil droplet size, shear, and chemistry determine deoiling performance.
  • Evaluate the performance of skim tanks, hydrocyclones, flotation units, and filters.
  • Select treatment chemicals and verify their effect through jar tests and field trials.
  • Specify injection water quality targets suited to the receiving formation.
  • Predict scaling and souring risks when different water sources are mixed.
  • Interpret injection surveillance data to detect plugging, fracturing, or loss of containment.
  • Recommend remediation for declining injectivity in injection and disposal wells.
  • Troubleshoot oil carryover, solids surges, and chemical incompatibility in water systems.
  • Manage oily sludge and naturally occurring radioactive material safely.
  • Plan water handling capacity as water cut increases.
  • Build a produced water management plan with measurable performance indicators.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Day 1

Produced Water Characteristics and Strategy

  • Origin of produced water and rising water cut in mature fields.
  • Dispersed oil, dissolved organics, salts, suspended solids, and dissolved gases.
  • Bacteria, residual production chemicals, and naturally occurring radioactive material.
  • Management options: reduction at source, reinjection, disposal, discharge, and reuse.
  • Regulatory drivers, discharge permits, and environmental reporting obligations.
  • Sampling points, sample handling, and oil-in-water measurement methods.
  • Practical Application: Interpret a produced water analysis and build a field water balance.
Day 2

Oil-in-Water Treatment Technologies

  • Droplet size distribution, Stokes' law, and the effect of shear on separation.
  • Skim tanks and corrugated plate interceptors: design and operating limits.
  • Deoiling hydrocyclones: pressure drop ratio, reject rate, and turndown.
  • Induced and dissolved gas flotation units and their operating parameters.
  • Nutshell filters, media filters, coalescers, and cartridge filtration.
  • Water clarifiers, flocculants, and chemical selection through jar testing.
  • Practical Application: Select and size a treatment train for a given flow and outlet target.
Day 3

Injection Water Quality and Compatibility

  • Injection water specifications for solids, particle size, oil, and oxygen.
  • Water compatibility and mixing produced water with seawater or aquifer water.
  • Barium, strontium, and calcium sulfate and carbonate scale prediction and inhibition.
  • Sulfate-reducing bacteria, biofilms, and reservoir souring mechanisms.
  • Biocide programs, oxygen control, and corrosion monitoring in water systems.
  • Membrane filter tests, core flood data, and water quality trending.
  • Practical Application: Assess two injection water sources and propose scale, souring, and corrosion controls.
Day 4

Reinjection and Disposal Well Management

  • Produced water reinjection for pressure support versus dedicated disposal wells.
  • Injection pumps, distribution networks, and wellhead flow control.
  • Injectivity decline mechanisms: solids plugging, oil, scale, and bacterial fouling.
  • Matrix injection, fracture pressure, and thermally induced fracturing.
  • Hall plots, step-rate tests, and pressure falloff tests for injection surveillance.
  • Injector well integrity, zonal isolation, and subsurface containment.
  • Practical Application: Analyze injection well performance data and recommend remediation and operating limits.
Day 5

Troubleshooting and Water Management Planning

  • Common upsets: high oil carryover, slugging, chemical incompatibility, and solids surges.
  • Handling oily sludge, recovered oil, and naturally occurring radioactive scale.
  • Monitoring, key performance indicators, and data trending for water systems.
  • Water handling capacity planning as water cut rises.
  • Cost, energy, and chemical optimization across the water handling chain.
  • Roles and interfaces between operations, reservoir, chemistry, and integrity teams.
  • Final Workshop: Develop a produced water management plan with treatment, injection, surveillance, and disposal targets and indicators.

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