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Reservoir Engineering
The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries
1st Edition - September 22, 2015
Authors: Abdus Satter, Ghulam M. Iqbal
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780128002193
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eBook ISBN:9780128005231
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Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges. Written in easy to understand language, the book provides valuable information regarding present-day tools, techniques, and technologies and explains best practices on reservoir management and recovery approaches. Various reservoir workflow diagrams presented in the book provide a clear direction to meet the challenges of the profession. As most reservoir engineering decisions are based on reservoir simulation, a chapter is devoted to introduce the topic in lucid fashion. The addition of practical field case studies make Reservoir Engineering a valuable resource for reservoir engineers and other professionals in helping them implement a comprehensive plan to produce oil and gas based on reservoir modeling and economic analysis, execute a development plan, conduct reservoir surveillance on a continuous basis, evaluate reservoir performance, and apply corrective actions as necessary.
Connects key reservoir fundamentals to modern engineering applications
Bridges the conventional methods to the unconventional, showing the differences between the two processes
Offers field case studies and workflow diagrams to help the reservoir professional and student develop and sharpen management skills for both conventional and unconventional reservoirs
Reservoir Engineers, Unconventional Reservoir Engineers, Reservoir managers and decision makers, Petrophysics professionals, and Completion Engineers, Petroleum Engineering students (both undergraduate and graduate), Production Engineering students
Dedication
Acknowledgment
1: An introduction to reservoir engineering: Advances in conventional and unconventional recoveries
Abstract
Introduction
Advances in reservoir technologies
Classification of petroleum reservoirs
Reservoir engineering functions
Walkthrough
2: Elements of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Reservoir rock types and production of petroleum
Origin of petroleum
Generation of hydrocarbons
The petroleum system
Summing up
Questions and assignments
3: Reservoir rock properties
Abstract
Introduction
Properties of conventional and unconventional reservoir rocks
Porosity of rock
Permeability
Surface and interfacial tension
Storativity and transmissibility
Reservoir quality index
Well logging: a brief introduction
Reservoir heterogeneity
Summing up
Questions and assignments
4: Reservoir fluid properties
Abstract
Introduction
Utilization of petroleum fluid properties data
Properties of reservoir oil
Properties of natural gas
Properties of formation water
Reservoir pressure
Reservoir temperature
Composition of petroleum fluids
Summing up
Questions and assignments
5: Phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids in reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Phase diagram
Reservoir types and recovery efficiency
Study of gas condensate reservoir performance
Optimization of oil and gas recovery
Summary
Questions and assignments
6: Characterization of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Objectives
Summing up
Questions and assignments
7: Reservoir life cycle and role of industry professionals
Abstract
Introduction
Life cycle of petroleum reservoirs
Role of professionals
Summing up
Questions and assignments
8: Petroleum reservoir management processes
Abstract
Introduction
Developing a plan
Development and depletion strategies
Geological and numerical model studies
Economic optimization
Management approval
Reservoir surveillance
Summing up
Questions and assignments
9: Fundamentals of fluid flow through porous media
Abstract
Introduction
Fluid state and flow characteristics
Multiphase flow: immiscible displacement of fluid
Summing up
Questions and assignments
10: Transient well pressure analysis
Abstract
Introduction
Type curve analysis
Summary
Questions and assignments
11: Primary recovery mechanisms and recovery efficiencies
Abstract
Introduction
Primary drive mechanisms
Oil reservoirs
Dry and wet gas reservoirs
Summary
Questions and assignments
12: Determination of oil and gas in place: conventional and unconventional reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Original oil in place
Gas initially in place
Summing up
Questions and assignments
13: Decline curve analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Decline curve analysis: advantages and limitations
Decline curve models
Method of identification
Multisegment decline analysis model
Estimation of EUR in shale gas reservoirs: a general guideline
Decline curve analysis workflow
Summary
Questions and assignments
14: Reservoir performance analysis by the classical material balance method
Abstract
Introduction
Assumptions and limitations
Oil reservoirs: estimation of the original oil in place, gas cap ratio, aquifer influx, and recovery factor
Gas reservoirs: estimation of the gas initially in place and aquifer influx
Gas condensate reservoirs: estimation of wet gas in place
Summing up
Questions and assignments
15: Petroleum reservoir simulation: a primer
Abstract
Introduction
Fully implicit
Production history matching
Output of simulation study
Summing up
Questions and assignments
16: Waterflooding and waterflood surveillance
Abstract
Introduction
The practice of waterflood
Applicability of waterflooding
Waterflood surveillance
Summing up
Questions and assignments
17: Enhanced oil recovery processes: thermal, chemical, and miscible floods
Abstract
Introduction
Thermal recovery: cyclic steam injection process
Steam flooding
In situ combustion
Miscible methods
Nitrogen and flue gas flooding
Polymer flood and chemical methods
Polymer flooding
Micellar−polymer flooding
Caustic or alkaline flooding
EOR design considerations
Summing up
Questions and assignments
18: Horizontal well technology and performance
Abstract
Introduction
History of horizontal drilling
Horizontal well placement guidelines
Summing up
Questions and assignments
19: Oil and gas recovery methods in low permeability and unconventional reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Strategies in oil and gas recovery
Tight gas and unconventional gas
Development of low permeability reservoirs: tools, techniques, and criteria for selection
Summing up
Questions and assignments
20: Rejuvenation of reservoirs with declining performance
Abstract
Introduction
Major strategies in redeveloping matured oil fields
Revitalization efforts
Summing up
Questions and assignments
21: Unconventional oil reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Unconventional reservoir characteristics
Summing up
Questions and assignments
22: Unconventional gas reservoirs
Abstract
Introduction
Types and estimated resources of unconventional gas
Modeling and simulation of shale gas production
Other resources of unconventional gas [33]
Summing up
Questions and assignments
23: Conventional and unconventional petroleum reserves – definitions and world outlook
Abstract
Introduction
Petroleum reserves and resources
Conventional versus unconventional reserves
Classification of petroleum reserves
Methods of reporting petroleum reserves
Petroleum plays and resources
Reserves estimation methods
Probability distribution of petroleum reserves
Sources of uncertainty
Monte Carlo simulation
Sources of inaccuracy in reserves estimates
Update of field reserves
World outlook
Summing up
Questions and assignments
24: Reservoir management economics, risks, and uncertainties
Abstract
Introduction
Objectives of economic analysis
Integrated economic model
Risk and uncertainty in the petroleum industry
Summing up
Questions and assignments
Subject index
No. of pages: 486
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: September 22, 2015
Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
Hardback ISBN: 9780128002193
eBook ISBN: 9780128005231
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Abdus Satter
Abdus Satter retired from Texaco in 1998 as a senior research consultant after 30 years of service, and he started his own company for engineering consulting and training services. Besides Texaco, he worked for Amoco Petroleum Company, Frank Cole Engineering and taught at the University of Western Ontario and Ahsanullah Engineering College in Bangladesh. He is an expert with 40+ years of experience in reservoir engineering, reservoir simulator development, applications, water flooding an enhanced oil recovery processes. He has taught many reservoir courses in the US and internationally and has authored four other books and many articles. Dr. Satter is a distinguished member of SPE, Legion of Honor and also a Life member. He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dhaka, PE and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oklahoma.
Affiliations and expertise
President – Satter and Associates, Houston, Texas
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Ghulam M. Iqbal
Ghulam Iqbal is currently an independent consultant based in Washington, DC. While previously working for Zakum Oil Company, Ghulam collaborated with a highly dedicated team which pioneered the application of multi-lateral horizontal well technology, and his career assignments involved the management of a giant oil field in the Middle East producing over half a million barrels of oil per day. Dr. Iqbal has conducted several hands-on workshops for oil and gas professionals overseas on reservoir engineering, asset management and petroleum basin modeling under the U.S. Agency for International Development program. He has been a member of SPE for over 25 years and is a registered professional engineer in the state of California. He holds a MS and PhD degree, both in Petroleum Engineering, from the University of Oklahoma.