In contrast, a waterdrive reservoir is an unsealed petroleum reservoir in communication with water-bearing

reservoirs and in which there is appreciable movement of water from the water-bearing reservoir to the petroleum
reservoir. If the rate of water intrusion into the reservoir is equal to the volumetric rate of fluid withdrawal from the
reservoir, then the reservoir is more descriptively referred to as a complete-waterdrive reservoir. A completewaterdrive reservoir often experiences, but does not necessarily imply, very little pressure decline. Completewaterdrive reservoirs may require substantial pressure decline before the water-delivery rate can balance the
production rate.
If the rate of water intrusion into the reservoir is substantial but substantially less than the volumetric rate of fluid
withdrawal from the reservoir, then the reservoir is referred to as a partial-waterdrive reservoir. In all cases, when
a waterdrive is the major producing mechanism, the reservoir pressure will be sensitive to the producing rate. If
the reservoir-producing rate is too high relative to the water-influx rate, the waterdrive will lose its effectiveness
and the reservoir pressure will decline.
Waterdrives are also classified as edgewater or bottomwater drives, depending on the nature and location of the
water encroachment into the reservoir. Fig. 9.3 shows a schematic of a bottomwater-drive reservoir. Because
waterdrive reservoirs experience increasing water content and decreasing hydrocarbon content, they are referred
to as nonvolumetric reservoirs. More generally, nonvolumetric reservoirs are reservoirs in which hydrocarbon
pore volume (PV) changes during pressure depletion. Conversely, volumetric reservoirs are reservoirs in which
hydrocarbon PV does not change during pressure depletion. Because waterdrive reservoirs involve water influx
into the reservoir, they also are referred to as water-influx reservoirs