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Know Where Your Injection Water Really Goes
Petrofine’s interwell tracer testing program reveals your reservoir’s hidden flow paths, so you can measure interwell connectivity, maximize recovery, and eliminate wasted injection.
You’re Injecting Without Clarity & It’s Costing You
Operators worldwide inject millions of barrels of water every day without knowing where it actually goes.
The current reality:
- Thief zones steal injected water before it reaches oil
- Fractures and high-permeability channels create preferential flow paths that bypass target zones
- Poor sweep efficiency leaves oil untouched while you pay for injection and water handling
- Unpredictable breakthrough times keep you reacting instead of optimizing
Without reservoir connectivity mapping, you’re operating in the dark—and it’s expensive.
What Waterflood Uncertainty Really Costs
When 30–40% of injected water bypasses productive zones, you pay twice:
Direct costs
- Wasted injection water that never contacts oil
- Energy and treatment costs for bypassed water
- Higher produced-water cuts and increased separation requirements
- Accelerated facility wear from excess water handling
- Decisions made on assumptions, not data
Lost revenue
- Oil left in the ground due to poor sweep
- Reduced recovery efficiency and delayed payback
Chemical tracer testing turns that uncertainty into actionable intelligence, and lost revenue into recovered oil.
Interwell Tracer Testing:
Direct Evidence of Reservoir Performance
Petrofine designs and executes flow-path diagnostics using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) tracers to provide clear visibility underground. The results deliver a precise picture of:
- Verified interwell connectivity between wells
- Identification of preferential flow paths, thief zones, and barriers
- Quantified sweep efficiency and communication across patterns
- Tracer breakthrough analysis and timing curves
- Produced-water tracer analysis for flow-back confirmation
- Swept-pore-volume and areal-efficiency estimation
- Data supporting waterflood optimization and EOR design decisions
Outcome: measurable guidance to adjust injection, improve sweep, reduce water-handling costs, and increase recovery.
Ready to Measure What Matters?
Our engineers will evaluate your field parameters and show you:
- Whether interwell tracer testing fits your operation
- How we’ll measure interwell connectivity and characterize sweep efficiency
- What oil-recovery improvements are achievable
- How you can realize reduced water-handling costs and improved EOR outcomes
No obligation. No pressure. Just clear technical guidance from engineers who understand your challenges.