•    Reservoir rock properties
•    Reservoir fluids properties
•    Factors affecting water flooding

•    Drive mechanisms
•    Reserves estimate and remaining reserves
•    Reasons for water flooding and history
•    Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance concept
•    Reservoir engineering aspects and screening for water flooding
•    Water injection systems – water source: produced water, aquifers and seawater – nature and composition of waters and seawater – matching reservoir requirements – water compatibilities and scale
•    Water injection systems – basic water treatment – basic seawater treatment: filtration and deaeration

• Reservoir-geology considerations in the design and operation of water floods
• Immiscible displacement theory
• Immiscible displacement in two dimensions-areal
• Vertical displacement in linear and areal models    
• Fractional flow and performance measures
• "Water flood performance efficiencies
  • Microscopic efficiency of immiscible displacement
  • Macroscopic displacement efficiency of a linear water flood"
• Water flood design
• Heterogeneity, flood pattern, recovery efficiency
• Candidates, patterns, and factors affecting pattern selection and well-spacing
• Factor influencing water flood recovery
• Water flood production performance and reservoir forecast.    
• Water flood monitoring
• Water flood field-case-studies examples/ practices and problems

•    Water quality and monitoring
•    Corrosion problems (reasons and solutions)
•    Field operation, water system, compatibility, and treatment
•    Various EOR processes and their recovery expectations, optimum time .
•    Introduction to chemical-enhanced oil recovery techniques
•    Polymer flooding
•    Surfactant flooding

•    Alkaline flooding
•    Hot water flooding
•    Steam injection
•    Water flood project optimization and economic evaluation
•    Field examples and case histories