Petroleum Engineering: Principles and PracticeThe need for this book has arisen from demand for a current text from our students in Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College and from post-experience Short Course students. It is, however, hoped that the material will also be of more general use to practising petroleum engineers and those wishing for aa introduction into the specialist literature. The book is arranged to provide both background and overview into many facets of petroleum engineering, particularly as practised in the offshore environments of North West Europe. The material is largely based on the authors' experience as teachers and consultants and is supplemented by worked problems where they are believed to enhance understanding. The authors would like to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to all the people who have helped in the preparation of this book by technical comment and discussion and by giving permission to reproduce material. In particular we would like to thank our present colleagues and students at Imperial College and at ERC Energy Resource Consultants Ltd. for their stimulating company, Jill and Janel for typing seemingly endless manuscripts; Dan Smith at Graham and Trotman Ltd. for his perseverence and optimism; and Lesley and Joan for believing that one day things would return to normality. John S. Archer and Colin G. Wall 1986 ix Foreword Petroleum engineering has developed as an area of study only over the present century. It now provides the technical basis for the exploitation of petroleum fluids in subsurface sedimentary rock reservoirs. |
Contents
7 | |
Oilwell Drilling | 20 |
9 | 31 |
Properties of Reservoir Fluids | 40 |
6 | 51 |
Characteristics of Reservoir Rocks | 62 |
influence of wettability and capillary | 92 |
5 | 98 |
Reservoir Performance Analysis | 157 |
Secondary Recovery and Pressure Maintenance | 173 |
97 | 189 |
Improved Hydrocarbon Recovery | 191 |
Factors Influencing Production Operations | 218 |
Concepts in Reservoir Modelling and Application | 233 |
SPE Nomenclature and Units | 257 |
Solutions to Examples in Text | 310 |
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analysis API gravity aquifer average bottom-hole brine bubble-point calculated capillary pressure compressibility computer symbols Conf connate water constant core correlation cumulative curve density depth dimensionless displacement displacing fluid drilling effective equation field flow rate fluid formation volume factor gas cap gas-oil ratio gradient heavy oil hydrocarbon influx encroachment initial interval L³/t letter symbol symbol linear liquid material balance miscible mole North Sea offshore oil recovery oil reservoirs oil saturation oil-water contact Petroleum phase pore volume porosity Proc psia Quantity relative permeability reservoir conditions reservoir engineering reservoir pressure reservoir rock reservoir simulation residual oil sample sand script shale shown in Fig solution SPE letter specific gravity SPEJ stock tank subscript surface surfactant thermal thickness tion Trans unit usually vertical viscosity volume compressibility volumetric water injection water saturation waterflood wellbore zone