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Oil and Gas Production in Nontechnical Language.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raymond, Martin S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oil wells.
- Gas wells.
- Petroleum engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language
- Place of Publication:
- Tulsa, OK : PennWell Books, LLC, 2017.
- Summary:
- This updated second edition of Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language is an excellent introduction for anyone from petroleum engineers and geologists new to their careers to financial, marketing, legal, and other professionals and their staffs interested in the industry. E&P service company personnel will find it particularly beneficial in understanding the roles played by their clients. Not only does it cover production fundamentals, but it backs up to give the necessary upstream background--geology, origins of oil and gas, and ownership and land rights--as well as surface operations and even production company strategy development.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Who?
- Why?
- What?
- Where?
- How?
- Illustrations
- Figures
- Tables
- 1 How Did We Get Here? The History of Production
- Oily Beginnings
- A Case for Casing
- More Fireworks
- Underground Mysteries
- Water, Water Everywhere
- Breathings of the Earth
- Crisis and Reservoir Engineering
- Notable Failure and Success
- Horizontal Drilling
- The Great Offshore
- Renaissance
- 2 The Container: The Reservoir
- Origin
- Down to earth
- Pangaea and the shifting plates
- Transformation
- Shifting sands
- Characterization
- Rock of (various) ages
- Going with the flow
- Lithification
- Spaces
- Connecting the spaces
- Distortion
- Discovery
- Finding the trap
- Enter seismic
- And On . . .
- 3 What's in The Container? The Prize
- Determinants
- Pressure
- Temperature
- Time
- The Contents
- Saltwater
- Hydrocarbons: Oil and gas
- The Chemistry
- Composition
- Properties
- Impurities
- Fingerprints
- The Origin of Hydrocarbons
- Biogenic
- Abiogenic
- Unconventional Oil and Gas
- Oil sands
- Coal-bed methane
- 4 Yours, Mine, or Theirs? Ownership
- Ownership in the United States
- Royalties
- The Negotiation
- Damages
- Non-US Rights
- Bidding Process
- Spacing Units and Pooling
- Unitization
- Nonparticipation
- Nonconsent
- Rewards
- Perpetuation and Termination
- Expertise
- 5 Getting There: Drilling
- The Spring Pole
- Cable Tool Drilling
- Cable Tool Operations
- Rotary Drilling
- Rotary rig components
- The Top Drive
- Drill Bits
- Penetration
- Changing the bit
- Drilling Mud
- The purpose of mud
- The circulating system
- Setting Casing
- Cementing
- Blowout Preventers
- Other Features
- Drilling Offshore
- Platforms for drilling
- At the seafloor.
- Compensators
- Fixed platforms
- Automation
- The Course
- Mud motors
- Location, Location, Location
- 6 What Have We Found? Logging and Testing
- Logging
- Mud logs
- Openhole logs
- Induction logs
- Saturation
- Porosity
- Coring
- Alternatives to coring
- Correlation Logs
- Spontaneous potential
- Gamma ray
- Cased-Hole Logging and Measuring Devices
- Real Time
- Directional and Horizontal Wells
- Original Hydrocarbons in Place
- Openhole Testing
- Drillstem testing
- Wireline drillstem tests
- 7 Getting It Ready-Completions
- Casing the Hole
- Solid or slotted casing
- Trees
- Accessing the Formation
- Gravel packing
- Smart Wells and Intelligent Completions
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Precedent
- Fracturing
- 8 Behavior: Hydrocarbon Activity in the Reservoir
- Phases
- Phase Diagrams
- Reservoir Fluid Categories
- Using Phase Diagrams
- Black oil
- Volatile oil
- Retrograde gas
- Wet gas
- Dry gas
- Gas Wells versus Oil Wells
- Shrinkage
- Solution Gas-to-Oil Ratio
- Relative Permeability
- 9 Here It Comes: Production
- The Motivating Force
- Drive Mechanisms
- Producing Phases
- Primary Production
- Secondary recovery
- Tertiary Recovery
- Fire floods
- Steam floods
- Enhanced Recovery
- CO2 injection
- And On . . . to the Surface
- 10 Making It Marketable: Field Processing
- Some of the Parts
- Gas Treating
- Acid gas
- Water
- Oil Treating
- Heater treater
- Free-water knockout vessel
- Electrostatic heater treater
- Demulsifying agents
- Water Disposal
- Natural Gas Processing Plants
- Testing
- Measurement and Metering
- Gas metering
- Oil metering
- Storage
- Subsea Processing
- 11 Fixing Things: Remedial Operations and Workovers
- Decision Making
- Workover Rigs
- Coiled Tubing.
- Subsea Completions
- Well Problems
- Mechanical failures
- Water production
- Coning
- Plugging
- Well Stimulation
- Acidizing
- Changing Production Intervals
- Abandonment
- 12 Who's Involved: The Players
- The Companies
- Size
- The People
- Geologists
- Geophysicists
- Engineers
- Operations staff
- The Suppliers
- In-house and outsourced
- 13 What Should We Do: Strategy
- Identity
- A Strategy Model
- Assessing competencies
- Strategy implementation
- Digitizing the Oil Field
- The digital oil field
- Structure
- How Do E&
- P Companies Compete?
- The prize
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5231-3039-3
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