Water Injection Facility Upgrade and Pipeline – Boundary Lake, Alberta

Issue

Our customer acquired a new production asset close to one of its existing facilities. The additional produced water exceeded the capacity of both the existing water handling equipment and the disposal well.

Solution

Working with the customer’s geologists and engineers, Reef converted an existing production well on the far end of the field into a water injection well. Reef then modified the facility water handling system for the higher volume and built a 2” flexible pipeline to the injector well. This was a comprehensive and efficient solution as it will save the client approximately $100,000 per year and entirely eliminates the hassle of having to transport the excess water by truck. More importantly, it also created significant value to the reservoir in terms of waterflood pressure maintenance.

Reef Advantage

With the goal of reducing overhead costs, the water injection package performance was adjusted with equipment modifications, the water filter and piping were upgraded, and an additional water discharge connection and meter were added. This resulted in considerable cost savings over a new, larger system. In addition, a 2” flexible pipeline was installed with 65% of it being pulled through an abandoned 4” steel line which further reduced costs for our client. Lastly, the injection wellhead area was constructed for the tie-in connection, including metering and a heated building.