Life after a tight water flood fails

And what if you lose GPP?

drill bitWatching regulatory applications is the best way to keep up with the Joneses. If you have a problem, it's very likely someone else solved it and talked about it in a regulatory application.

The operator of this tight pool found that the water flood failed but he was able to ramp up production using horizontal multi fractured wells.

But the regulator revoked GPP when he terminated the water flood. Suddenly his wells were very restricted. See how he dealt with the problem. We found this information using AppIntel.

Get this application now

Check his application documents from our self-serve web portal.

  Get details of this cool tech   Subscribers get them for free

AER: Waterflood=GPP

The regulator always reserves the right to terminate GPP. They revoke if a waterflood is failing. They revoke sometimes if GOR is too high. They revoke if they think a water flood should be attempted. They revoke if there is a very high producer to injector ratio.

Will the regulator make him restart the water flood? Water flood is the easiest way to convince the AER that your pool deserves GPP. They feel confident that you're conserving the resource if you flood. But there are ways around this. See this application for details.

Get GPP for ALL your wells.
?subject=Help me get GPP for all my wells&body=Help me get GPP for all my wells. Let me leverage your GPP know-how to increase production by year end.%0D%0A%0D%0AMy name _______%0D%0AMy phone _______%0D%0A%0D%0AOr call Proven at 403 803 2500.">Contact Proven for an MRL audit.

Each AER application contains your neighbor's perspective on the exploitation of oil and gas formations. Applications contain more exploitation ideas than you can even find in SPE papers.

Would you like to see what other operators in your areas are thinking about seismic, multifractured wells, polymer schemes and recovery? AppIntel can help.

Tags: Tight, Flood

  25 May 2016



10 ways to increase production before Christmas

Each cost less than half a million

Using AI to reduce risk of oil and gas failure

How can you assess the risk without knowing the epic fails?

Celebrating 2025, a year of innovation

Oil and gas paradigm shifts this year

RTF: Most refused submission type in November

Leading indicators from industry

Astrobleme impacts deep well disposal scheme

Learn from the experience of other operators

Non-meridian thermal wells

Still drilling horizontal wells N‑S?  Why?

Steam surfactant co-injection

Want to win? What is your competitive advantage?

Surprise! Sour gas production from a sweet thermal scheme

Dealing with surprises in the oil and gas industry. What to do next.

This page last updated 09 January 2026.
Copyright 2011-2026 by Regaware Systems Ltd.
  Calgary, Alberta, Canada
AppIntel is an AI service for getting intelligence from industry submissions vetted by government. Nothing on this page may be construed as engineering or geoscience advice. If you spot any errors on this site, please email our webmaster.
  Share