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Water Breakthrough

Water breakthrough is a description of reservoir conditions under which a fluid, previously isolated or separated from production, gains access to a producing wellbore. The term is most commonly applied to water or gas breakthrough, where the water or gas injected to maintain reservoir pressure via injection wells breaks through to one or more of the producing wells.