Analysis of production decline curves [[electronic resource] /] / Steven W. Poston, Bobby D Poe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462003203321
• Autore: Poston Steven W
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Richardson, Tex., : Society of Petroleum Engineers, c2008
• ISBN: 1-61399-221-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PoeBobby D
• Soggetti: Oil well logging; Oil fields - Forecasting; Petroleum reserves - Forecasting; Gas reservoirs - Forecasting; Curve fitting; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1-Introduction to Decline Curves ""; ""1.1 Comparing Predictive Models""; ""1.2 Volumetric Calculations""; ""1.3 Decline Curves""; ""1.4 The Material Balance""; ""1.5 Reservoir Simulation""; ""1.6 Historical Perspective""; ""1.7 The Arps Empirical Equations""; ""1.8 Exponential Equations""; ""1.9 Hyperbolic Equations""; ""1.10 Harmonic Equations""; ""1.11 Bounds of the Arps Equations""; ""1.12 Dimensionless Groups""; ""1.13 Curve Characteristics""; ""1.14 Economic Limit (EL)""; ""1.15 Reserves-to-Production Ratio""; ""1.16 The Diffusivity Equation""""1.17 Boundary-Dominated Flow Solutions""; ""1.18 Time to Attain Boundary-Dominated Flow""; ""1.19 Type Curves""; ""1.20 Recent Advances in Decline-Curve Analyses""; ""2-Application of Decline Curves ""; ""2.1 Assumptions""; ""2.2 The Effects of Reservoir-Depletion Mechanisms""; ""2.3 Production Segments""; ""2.4 Production Relationships""; ""2.5 Mathematical Relationships""; ""2.6 Statistical Considerations""; ""3-Type Curves""; ""3.1 The Jacob and Lohman Type Curve""; ""3.2 The Fetkovich Type Curves""; ""4-The Exponential Decline Curve""; ""4.1 The Constant Percentage Decline""""4.2 The Continuous Exponential Decline""; ""4.3 Comparing Exponential Declines""; ""4.4 Rate-Cumulative Recovery Curve""; ""4.5 Solution to the Diffusivity Equation""; ""5-The Hyperbolic Decline Curve""; ""5.1 The Arps Hyperbolic Equation""; ""5.2 The Harmonic Equation""; ""6-Interpretation of Field Curves""; ""6.1 Transient and Transition Flow""; ""6.2 Defining Reservoir Character""; ""6.3 Initializing Decline Curves""; ""6.4 When b > 1""; ""7-Production Performance Plots""; ""7.1 Fluid Ratio Plots""; ""7.2 Factors Affecting the Shape of the Curve""; ""7.3 The X Plot Method""""7.4 The Fluid Ratio Plotting Method""; ""8-Recent Developments in Decline-Curve Analyses""; ""8.1 Horner Approximation of the Pseudoproducing Time""; ""8.2 Correction of Material Balance Time in Decline-Curve Analyses""; ""8.3 Composite Production Decline-Curve-Analysis Models""; ""8.4 Derivative and Integral Decline-Curve-Analysis Functions""; ""8.5 Production Decline Response of an Unfractured Well in a Closed Reservoir""; ""8.6 Decline-Curve Analyses for Other Types of Wells""; ""8.7 Production Decline-Curve Analysis With Partial or Absent Pressure Record""; ""Nomenclature""""References""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""