Chapter 4 Field examples and data analysis

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This chapter summarizes the literature on water flood field tracer applications and describes some of these applications to specific field problems. The chapter also describes the use of tracer response data to estimate the distribution of injected water in a pattern and the pore volume swept by the injected water. The information these tests yield is often only of local interest, the test may not have been successful, or it may be tied to an otherwise proprietary process. Those that are reported are usually presented as part of a much larger project wherein the tracer aspects are of minor importance to the author. As a result, a good deal of the detailed information about tracers in the oil field travels only by word of mouth. Few papers reporting the use of tracers in water floods give details on the choice of tracers, design of the tracer test, analyses of the tracers in the produced water, or analysis of the tracer data. The reported tracer data are usually concerned with reservoir description and its effect on the water flood. Tracer data are otherwise of qualitative interest; in some cases, the tracers used are not even identified.

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