Reservoir engineering handbook / Tarek Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Tarek H., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oil reservoir engineering.

Oil fields.

Gas reservoirs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1473 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, MA : Elsevier/Gulf Professional, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reservoir Engineering, Third Edition provides solid information and insight for engineers and students alike on maximizing production from a field in order to obtain the best possible economic return. This guide contains information on predicting oil reservoir performance through the analysis of oil recovery mechanisms and performance calculations. It also contains valuable information on key relationships among the different operating variables. The examples contained within this reference demonstrate the performance of processes under forceful conditions through a wide variety of app

Contents:

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF RESERVOIR FLUID BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION OF RESERVOIRS AND RESERVOIR FLUIDS; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2: RESERVOIR-FLUID PROPERTIES; PROPERTIES OF NATURAL GASES; BEHAVIOR OF IDEAL GASES; BEHAVIOR OF REAL GASES; EFFECT OF NONHYDROCARBON COMPONENTS ON THE Z-FACTOR; CORRECTION FOR HIGH-MOLECULARWEIGHT GASES

DIRECT CALCULATION OF COMPRESSIBILITY FACTORSCOMPRESSIBILITY OF NATURAL GASES; GAS FORMATION VOLUME FACTOR; GAS VISCOSITY; METHODS OF CALCULATING THE VISCOSITY OF NATURAL GASES; PROPERTIES OF CRUDE OIL SYSTEMS; METHODS OF CALCULATING VISCOSITY OF THE DEAD OIL; METHODS OF CALCULATING THE SATURATED OIL VISCOSITY; METHODS OF CALCULATING THE VISCOSITY OF THE UNDERSATURATED OIL; PROPERTIES OF RESERVOIR WATER; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF RESERVOIR FLUIDS; COMPOSITION OF THE RESERVOIR FLUID; CONSTANT-COMPOSITION EXPANSION TESTS; DIFFERENTIAL LIBERATION (VAPORIZATION) TEST

SEPARATOR TESTSEXTRAPOLATION OF RESERVOIR FLUID DATA; LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF GASCONDENSATE SYSTEMS; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4: FUNDAMENTALS OF ROCK PROPERTIES; POROSITY; SATURATION; WETTABILITY; SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL TENSION; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; ROCK COMPRESSIBILITY; NET PAY THICKNESS; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; AREAL HETEROGENEITY; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5: RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CONCEPTS; TWO-PHASE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY RATIO; DYNAMIC PSEUDO-RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; NORMALIZATION AND AVERAGING RELATIVE PERMEABILITY DATA

THREE-PHASE RELATIVE PERMEABILITYPROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6: FUNDAMENTALS OF RESERVOIR FLUID FLOW; TYPES OF FLUIDS; FLOW REGIMES; RESERVOIR GEOMETRY; NUMBER OF FLOWING FLUIDS IN THE RESERVOIR; FLUID FLOW EQUATIONS; STEADY-STATE FLOW; UNSTEADY-STATE FLOW; CONSTANT-TERMINAL-PRESSURE SOLUTION; CONSTANT-TERMINAL-RATE SOLUTION; PSEUDOSTEADY-STATE FLOW; PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION; TRANSIENT WELL TESTING; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7: OIL WELL PERFORMANCE; VERTICAL OIL WELL PERFORMANCE; HORIZONTAL OIL WELL PERFORMANCE; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8: GAS WELL PERFORMANCE

VERTICAL GAS WELL PERFORMANCEHORIZONTAL GAS WELL PERFORMANCE; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9: GAS AND WATER CONING; CONING; CONING IN VERTICAL WELLS; BREAKTHROUGH TIME IN VERTICAL WELLS; AFTER BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE; CONING IN HORIZONTAL WELLS; HORIZONTAL WELL BREAKTHROUGH TIME; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10: WATER INFLUX; CLASSIFICATION OF AQUIFERS; RECOGNITION OF NATURAL WATER INFLUX; WATER INFLUX MODELS; REFERENCES; PROBLEMS; CHAPTER: 11: OIL RECOVERY MECHANISMS AND THE MATERIAL BALANCE EQUATION; PRIMARY RECOVERY MECHANISMS; THE MATERIAL BALANCE EQUATION; PROBLEMS; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 12: PREDICTING OIL RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-05221-3

9786611052218

0-08-048068-3

OCLC:

318415071