Water shut-off treatments - Reduce water and accelerate oil production

Gel treatment applications have been used for production well WOR reduction . There have been a number of cases where conformance was,was very poor and , by invocation of gel treatment strategies, WOR was significantly reduced. This paper discusses both the characteristics of reservoirs and wells whic h result in WOR, as well as characteristics of gel treatments which to be d esigned in order to effectively minimize the produced water from a reservoi r or an oil field. Examples are provided in this paper whereby, through the use of gel treatments in production wells, WOR and oil production was incr eased. The paper concludes that there is a significant upside to gel treatm ents for reservoir optimization and production well revitalization.