Advanced reservoir engineering

✍ Scribed by Tarek H. Ahmed, Paul D. McKinney

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 422
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advanced Reservoir Engineering offers the practicing engineer and engineering student a full description, with worked examples, of all of the kinds of reservoir engineering topics that the engineer will use in day-to-day activities. In an industry where there is often a lack of information, this timely volume gives a comprehensive account of the physics of reservoir engineering, a thorough knowledge of which is essential in the petroleum industry for the efficient recovery of hydrocarbons.Chapter one deals exclusively with the theory and practice of transient flow analysis and offers a brief but thorough hands-on guide to gas and oil well testing. Chapter two documents water influx models and their practical applications in conducting comprehensive field studies, widely used throughout the industry. Later chapters include unconventional gas reservoirs and the classical adaptations of the material balance equation. * An essential tool for the petroleum and reservoir engineer, offering information not available anywhere else* Introduces the reader to cutting-edge new developments in Type-Curve Analysis, unconventional gas reservoirs, and gas hydrates * Written by two of the industry's best-known and respected reservoir engineers

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
1 Well Testing Analysis......Page 16
1.1 Primary Reservoir Characteristics......Page 17
1.2 Fluid Flow Equations......Page 20
1.3 Transient Well Testing......Page 59
1.4 Type Curves......Page 79
1.5 Pressure Derivative Method......Page 87
1.6 Interference and Pulse Tests......Page 129
1.7 Injection Well Testing......Page 148
2 Water Influx......Page 164
2.1 Classification of Aquifers......Page 165
2.3 Water Influx Models......Page 166
3 Unconventional Gas Reservoirs......Page 202
3.1 Vertical Gas Well Performance......Page 203
3.2 Horizontal Gas Well Performance......Page 215
3.3 Material Balance Equation for Conventional and Unconventional Gas Reservoirs......Page 216
3.4 Coalbed Methane "CBM"......Page 232
3.5 Tight Gas Reservoirs......Page 248
3.6 Gas Hydrates......Page 286
3.7 Shallow Gas Reservoirs......Page 301
4 Performance of Oil Reservoirs......Page 306
4.1 Primary Recovery Mechanisms......Page 307
4.2 The Material Balance Equation......Page 313
4.3 Generalized MBE......Page 314
4.4 The Material Balance as an Equation of a Straight Line......Page 322
4.5 Tracy's Form of the MBE......Page 337
5 Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance......Page 342
5.1 Phase 1. Reservoir Performance Prediction Methods......Page 343
5.2 Phase 2. Oil Well Performance......Page 357
5.3 Phase 3. Relating Reservoir Performance to Time......Page 376
6 Introduction to Oil Field Economics......Page 380
6.1 Fundamentals of Economic Equivalence and Evaluation Methods......Page 381
6.2 Reserves Definitions and Classifications......Page 387
6.3 Accounting Principles......Page 390
References......Page 412
Index......Page 418
F......Page 419
O......Page 420
S......Page 421
Y......Page 422