Reservoir Engineering Handbook

The central role that Reservoir engineers play in a field's development and planning, cannot be underestimated. Recommending, the most appropriate and most cost effective reservoir depletion schemes has a great impact on a field's and ultimately a company's profitability. If done correctly, it will result in a windfall for the company but if done incorrectly or haphazardly, it will result in financial disaster.
Advanced Reservoir Engineering, 2nd Edition provides reservoir engineers with valuable insight into the tools, techniques and science of efficient oil recovery even in the most difficult fields. Reorganized for ease of use and with 40% new information, this new edition represents a 50% update over the previous edition. The main objective of the book is to continue to provide practicing engineers and engineering students with an understanding of day-to-day reservoir engineering operations and problems and how to maintain and solve them.
Concise and readable, this new edition begins with the fundaments to provide those new professionals a firm foundation of in the methods and techniques. Chapter one, which once dealt with the theory and practice of transient flow analysis and well testing, is now changed to deal exclusively with well testing. The theory and practice of transient flow analysis moved to a more appropriate section of the book. The author has added five new chapters, Reservoir characterization and Up-scaling, Miscible WAG Flood, Enhance Oil Recovery, Reservoir Management and Optimization, and Reservoir Simulation. In addition, the author has added a simulations code chapter.




Readership
Petroleum Engineer, Reservoir Engineer, Production Engineer, Drilling Engineer, Completion Engineer, Operations Engineer, Drilling Manager, Operations Manager, Project Production Engineer, Project Reservoir Engineer

Contents

Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Behavior
Reservoir-Fluid Properties
Laboratory Analysis of Reservoir Fluids
Fundamentals of Rock Properties
Relative Permeability Concepts
Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
Oil Well Performance
Gas Well Performance
Gas and Water Coning
Water Influx
Oil Recovery Mechanisms and the Material Balance Equation
Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance
Gas Reservoirs
Principles of Waterflooding
Vapor-Liquid Phase Equilibria
Analysis of Decline and Type Curves
Fractured Reservoirs





Author Information
By Tarek Ahmed, PhD, PE, Tarek Ahmed, Ph.D., P.E., Engineering Advisor with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation