Advanced reservoir engineering / / Tarek Ahmed, Paul D. McKinney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825582903321
• Autore: Ahmed Tarek H. <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Burlington, MA, : Elsevier/Gulf Professional Pub., c2005
• ISBN: 978-0-0805-9883-6; 0-08-049883-3; 9786611036720; 9780080598836; 1-281-03672-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): McKinneyPaul D
• Disciplina: 622/.338/015118
• Soggetti: Oil reservoir engineering - Mathematical models; Gas engineering - Mathematical models; Fluid dynamics - Mathematical models
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-401) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Advanced Reservoir Engineering -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Well Testing Analysis -- 1.1 Primary Reservoir Characteristics -- 1.2 Fluid Flow Equations -- 1.3 Transient Well Testing -- 1.4 Type Curves -- 1.5 Pressure Derivative Method -- 1.6 Interference and Pulse Tests -- 1.7 Injection Well Testing -- Chapter 2. Water Influx -- 2.1 Classification of Aquifers -- 2.2 Recognition of Natural Water Influx -- 2.3 Water Influx Models -- Chapter 3. Unconventional Gas Reservoirs -- 3.1 Vertical Gas Well Performance -- 3.2 Horizontal Gas Well Performance -- 3.3 Material Balance Equation for Conventional and Unconventional Gas Reservoirs -- 3.4 Coalbed Methane "CBM" -- 3.5 Tight Gas Reservoirs -- 3.6 Gas Hydrates -- 3.7 Shallow Gas Reservoirs -- Chapter 4. Performance of Oil Reservoirs -- 4.1 Primary Recovery Mechanisms -- 4.2 The Material Balance Equation -- 4.3 Generalized MBE -- 4.4 The Material Balance as an Equation of a Straight Line -- 4.5 Tracy's Form of the MBE -- Chapter 5. Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance -- 5.1 Phase 1. Reservoir Performance Prediction Methods -- 5.2 Phase 2. Oil Well Performance -- 5.3 Phase ; 3. Relating Reservoir Performance to Time -- Chapter 6. Introduction to Oil Field Economics -- 6.1 Fundamentals of Economic Equivalence and Evaluation Methods -- 6.2 Reserves Definitions and Classifications -- 6.3 Accounting Principles -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Written by two of the industry's best-known and respected reservoir engineers, Advanced Reservoir Engineering offers the practicing engineer and engineering student a full description, with worked examples, of all of the kinds of reservoir engineering topics that the engineer will use in day-to-day activities. In an industry where there is often a lack of information, this timely volume gives a comprehensive account of the physics of reservoir engineering, a thorough knowledge of which is essential in the petroleum industry for the efficient recovery of hydrocarbons.