Written by production engineers with extensive industrial as well as teaching experience, this book fully covers
reservoir engineering as well as key facets of production engineering.
Synthesizes reservoir and well performance with an emphasis on wellbore flow considerations
Emphasizes the key facets of production engineering, including well diagnosis, testing, and production optimization.
Table of Contents
1. The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering.
2. Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs.
3. Production from Two-Phase Reservoirs.
4. Production from Natural Gas Reservoirs.
5. The Near-Wellbore Condition and Damage Characterization; Skin Effects.
6. Gravel Pack Completions.
7. Wellbore Flow Performance.
8. Well Deliverability.
9. Forecast of Well Production.
10. Wellhead and Surface Gathering Systems.
11. Modern Well Test Analysis.
12. Well Test Design and Data Acquisition.
13. Production Logging Measurements and Analysis.
14. Well Diagnosis with Production Logging.
15. Pressure Transient Testing with Measured Sandface Flow Rates.
16. Gas Well Testing.
17. Matrix Simulation-Chemistry of Acid Rock Reactions.
18. Sandstone Acidizing Design.
19. Carbonate Acidizing Design.
20. Hydraulic Fracturing for Well Simulation.
21. Design of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments.
22. The Performance of Hydraulically-Fractured and Long-Flowing Wells.
