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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462011903321

Autore

Cronquist Chapman

Titolo

Estimation and classification of reserves of crude oil, natural gas and condensate [[electronic resource] /] / Chapman Cronquist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Richardson, Tex., : Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2001

ISBN

1-61399-225-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

SPE book series

Soggetti

Petroleum engineering

Natural gas reserves

Petroleum reserves

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. [380]-404) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1 Rationale for Reserves Estimation""; ""1.2 Definitions of Petroleum Fluids""; ""1.3 Classifications of Reserves""; ""1.4 Reserve Estimates-How Accurate?""; ""1.5 Methods To Estimate Reserves""; ""2. ANALOGY METHODS""; ""2.1 Background""; ""2.2 Analytical""; ""2.3 Statistical""; ""2.4 Variations in Operating Practice""; ""3. VOLUMETRIC METHODS""; ""3.1 Background""; ""3.2 Equations to Estimate Oil, Gas, and Condensate Initially in Place""; ""3.3 Sources of Data""; ""3.4 Analysis of Data""

""3.5 Initial Reservoir Conditions""""3.6 Volumetric Mapping""; ""3.7 Equations To Estimate Primary Recovery Efficiency""; ""3.8 Reservoir Heterogeneity""; ""3.9 Allocation of Reserves to Wells and Leases""; ""4. MATERIAL BALANCE METHODS""; ""4.1 Expanded Material Balance Equation""; ""4.2 Havlena-Odeh Methodology""; ""4.3 Prediction Methods""; ""4.4 Volumetric Gas Reservoirs""; ""4.5 Reconciliation of Material Balance and Volumetric Estimates""; ""5. PERFORMANCE/DECLINE TREND ANALYSIS""; ""5.1 Overview""; ""5.2 Performance Trends""; ""5.3 Production Decline Equations""

""6. SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN RESERVE ESTIMATION AND CLASSIFICATION""""6.1 Inconsistent Reserve Definitions and Classifications""; ""6.2 Remote/Frontier Areas and Harsh Operating



Conditions""; ""6.3 Heavy and Extra Heavy Crude Oil""; ""6.4 Fractured/Vugular Reservoirs""; ""6.5 Geopressured Reservoirs""; ""6.6 Partial Waterdrive (Rate-Sensitive) Gas Reservoirs""; ""6.7 Thin Oil Columns Between Free Gas and Water""; ""6.8 Very Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs�""Tight Gas""""; ""6.9 Pitfalls in Reserve Estimation""; ""7. FIELD EXAMPLES""; ""7.1 Auk (Oil) Field, North Sea""

""7.2 Leduc D-3 (Oil) Pool, Alberta""""7.3 Little Creek (Oil) Field, Mississippi""; ""7.4 Palm Valley (Gas) Field, Australia""; ""7.5 Spraberry (Oil) Field, West Texas""; ""7.6 Turtle Bayou ""AA"" (Gas) Reservoir, Louisiana""; ""8. RESERVES ANALYSIS, FIELD DEVELOPMENT, AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING""; ""8.1 Background""; ""8.2 Well Siting and Development Plans""; ""8.3 Economic Analysis of Rate and Spacing Scenarios""; ""8.4 Managing Data Flow in Newly Developing Fields""; ""8.5 Performance Monitoring""; ""9 . PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF RESERVES""; ""9.1 Background""

""9.2 Statistical Considerations""""9.3 Procedures Described""; ""9.4 Treatment of Uncertainties""; ""9.5 Probabilistic Procedures""; ""9.6 Probabilistic and Deterministic Estimates Compared""; ""9.7 Reserves: Expected, Risk-Weighted, Conditional, and Risk-Adjusted""; ""9.8 Probabilistic Analysis of Analogy Data""; ""9.9 Volumetric Estimates Using Probabilistic Procedures""; ""9.10 Probabilistic Analysis of New Discoveries""; ""9.11 Performance Estimates Using Probabilistic Procedures""; ""9.12 Aggregation of Separate Reserve Estimates""; ""9.13 Principal Points""; ""APPENDICES""

""A. PETROLEUM RESERVES DEFINITIONS OF SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS AND WORLD PETROLEUM CONGRESSES""