Reservoir engineering : the fundamentals, simulation, and management of conventional and unconventional recoveries / Abdus Satter, Ghulam M. Iqbal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Satter, Abdus, author.

Iqbal, Ghulam M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oil reservoir engineering.

Petroleum engineering.

Gas reservoirs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Gulf Professional Publishing, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgment

1 - An introduction to reservoir engineering: Advances in conventional and unconventional recoveries

Introduction

Advances in reservoir technologies

Classification of petroleum reservoirs

Reservoir engineering functions

Walkthrough

2 - Elements of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs

Reservoir rock types and production of petroleum

Origin of petroleum

Deposition of sediments and organic matters: the process begins

Types of sediments

Geologic basins and occurrences of petroleum: an overview

The geologic time scale

Stratigraphic sequence

Rock geochemistry: formation of kerogen

Generation of hydrocarbons

Oil and gas generation depth

Source rock, reservoir rock, and migration of petroleum

Traps associated with conventional reservoirs

The petroleum system

Comparison between conventional and unconventional reservoirs: source, migration, and accumulation

Reservoir heterogeneities

Summing up

Questions and assignments

References

3 - Reservoir rock properties

Properties of conventional and unconventional reservoir rocks

Porosity of rock

Absolute and effective porosity

Primary and secondary porosity

Range of porosity in petroleum reservoirs

Cutoff porosity and net formation thickness

Fracture porosity

Measurement of porosity

Porosity based on core samples

Logging

Nuclear magnetic resonance

Logging while drilling

Permeability

Darcy's law

Unit of permeability

Radial permeability

Measurement of permeability

Measurement of ultralow permeability by pressure decay method

Klinkenberg effect

Non-Darcy flow

Fracture permeability

Dual porosity reservoir.

Correlation between porosity and permeability

Permeability anisotropy

High permeability streaks

Factors affecting rock permeability and porosity

Effect of reservoir depth

Formation compressibility

Rock compressibility and bulk compressibility

Changes in rock porosity due to compressibility

Surface and interfacial tension

Fluid saturation

Irreducible water saturation and movable oil saturation

Sorption

Wettability of reservoir rock

Rock wettability and waterflood performance

Methods of measurement of wettability

Capillary pressure

Drainage and imbibition

Hysteresis effect

Methods of measurement

Capillary number

Effective permeability

Relative permeability

Oil-wet, heterogeneous, and unconventional reservoirs

Laboratory measurements of relative permeability

Geochemical properties of rock

Geomechanical properties of rock

Young's modulus

Poisson's ratio

In situ stress

Storativity and transmissibility

Reservoir quality index

Well logging: a brief introduction

Reservoir heterogeneity

4 - Reservoir fluid properties

Utilization of petroleum fluid properties data

Properties of reservoir oil

Specific gravity of oil and API gravity

Oil viscosity

Isothermal compressibility

Total and effective compressibility

Bubble point pressure

Solution gas-oil ratio

Producing and cumulative gas-oil ratio

Oil formation volume factor

Two-phase formation volume factor

Properties of natural gas

Ideal gas law

Real gas law

Viscosity of natural gases

Gas formation volume factor

Properties of gas condensates

Properties of formation water

Formation water compressibility

Formation water viscosity

Solution gas-water ratio.

Formation volume factor

Laboratory measurement of reservoir fluid properties

Factors affecting reservoir fluid properties

Reservoir pressure

Estimation of reservoir pressure

Abnormally pressured reservoirs

Typical measures of pressure in petroleum reservoirs

Reservoir temperature

Composition of petroleum fluids

5 - Phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids in reservoirs

Phase diagram

Phase diagram based on software application

Reservoir types and recovery efficiency

Study of gas condensate reservoir performance

Optimization of oil and gas recovery

Summary

6 - Characterization of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs

Objectives

Reservoir quality

Tools, techniques, and measurement scales

Workflow

Unconventional reservoirs

Reservoir characterization scenarios

7 - Reservoir life cycle and role of industry professionals

Life cycle of petroleum reservoirs

Exploration

Discovery

Appraisal

Development

Production

Abandonment

Rejuvenation

Unconventional reservoir life cycle

Role of professionals

8 - Petroleum reservoir management processes

Elements in reservoir management

Reservoir management process

Management of unconventional reservoirs

Reservoir management strategy

Developing a plan

Development and depletion strategies

Data acquisition and information management

Geological and numerical model studies

Well production forecasts and estimate of reserves

Facilities

Environmental issues

Economic optimization

Management approval.

Implementation

Reservoir surveillance

Performance evaluation

Revision of plans and strategies

9 - Fundamentals of fluid flow through porous media

Mechanism of fluid flow in porous media

Forces affecting fluid flow

Single and multiphase flow

Fluid flow model geometry

Fluid state and flow characteristics

Equations describing transport of fluids in porous media

Radial flow of single-phase fluid, oil, or gas

Steady-state flow

Slightly compressible fluids

Compressible fluids

Unsteady-state flow

Pseudosteady-state flow

Multiphase flow: immiscible displacement of fluid

Multiphase and multidimensional flow

Flow of water from aquifer into reservoir

10 - Transient well pressure analysis

Role of well testing and pressure transient analysis

Types of well tests

Flow regimes

Well test analysis equations

Diagnostic plot

Design of well test

Interpretation of well test data

Type curve analysis

11 - Primary recovery mechanisms and recovery efficiencies

Primary drive mechanisms

Oil reservoirs

Liquid and rock expansion drive

Solution gas or depletion drive

Gas cap drive

Aquifer water drive

Gravity segregation drive

Rock compaction drive

Dry and wet gas reservoirs

Gas reservoirs with aquifer drive

12 - Determination of oil and gas in place: conventional and unconventional reservoirs

Volumetric method

Original oil in place

Gas initially in place

Isopach, isovol, and isoHCPV maps

Data requirements

Estimation of original oil and gas in place.

Petroleum reserves

Applications of volumetric analysis

Unconventional gas reservoirs

Stimulated reservoir volume (SRV)

Role of volumetric analysis in integrated reservoir management

13 - Decline curve analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs

Decline curve analysis: advantages and limitations

Assumptions of decline curve analysis

Limitations

Decline curve models

Theoretical background and working equations

Exponential decline

Hyperbolic decline

Harmonic decline

Method of identification

Decline curve analysis for unconventional reservoirs

Stretched exponential decline model

Duong model

Multisegment decline analysis model

Estimation of EUR in shale gas reservoirs: a general guideline

Decline curve analysis workflow

Decline curve analysis of coalbed methane

Type curve analysis: an overview

14 - Reservoir performance analysis by the classical material balance method

Applications of the classical material balance method

Basis for the material balance method

Assumptions and limitations

Requirements of data for analysis

Applications of the material balance method in oil and gas reservoirs

Oil reservoirs: estimation of the original oil in place, gas cap ratio, aquifer influx, and recovery factor

FE method

Gas cap method

Havlena and Odeh method

Campbell method

Gas reservoirs: estimation of the gas initially in place and aquifer influx

Plot of p/z versus Gp

Pressure match method

Gas condensate reservoirs: estimation of wet gas in place

Role of material balance analysis in reservoir characterization

Summing up.

Questions and assignments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2015).

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ISBN:

9780128005231

0128005238

OCLC:

932328830