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Petrophysics

Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties

  • 5th Edition - March 27, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Djebbar Tiab, Erle C. Donaldson
  • Language: English

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Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Fifth Edition is a seminal text on the field that delivers information for reservoir engineers, production engineers, and geoscience students who need to understand rock-fluid interactions in order to maximize reservoir performance and minimize emissions and environmental impacts. This new edition lays a foundation to petroleum geology, including an overview of pre- and post- carbon emission concerns, porosity and permeability, formation resistivity and water saturation, capillary pressure, wettability, applications of Darcy’s Law, naturally fractured reservoirs, stress effects on reservoir rock, reservoir characterization and well logs, and more.

Each chapter synthesizes relevant theory, studies and advances, methods, procedures, calculations, definitions, exercises and assignments designed to reinforce learning.

Key features

  • Continues its longstanding, 28-year history as the leading book on petrophysics
  • Captures advances in field technologies, reservoir evaluation and testing, porosity, permeability, updated calculations and indices in wettability, permeability, brittleness, and fracability
  • Includes up-to-date discussions on carbon footprints and strategies to reduce emissions
  • Synthesizes relevant theory, studies and advances, methods, procedures, calculations, definitions, exercises and assignments designed to reinforce learning

Readership

Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineers, Engineering Advisors, and Reservoir Management Specialists Undergraduate and graduate students in petroleum engineering and geo-energy

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Introduction to Petroleum Geology

3. Porosity and Permeability

4. Formation Resistivity and Water Saturation

5. Capillary Pressure

6. Wettability

7. Applications of Darcy’s Law

8. Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

9. Effect of Stress on Reservoir Rock Properties

10. Fluid-Rock Interactions

11. Unconventional Reservoirs – Shale-Gas

12. Unconventional Reservoirs – Shale Oil

13. Sources of Permeability in Tight and Unconventional
Appendix A: Measurement of Rock and Fluid Properties
Appendix B: Computer, Index. Programs

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 28, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Djebbar Tiab

Djebbar Tiab is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as Professor of petroleum engineering from 1977 - 2014. His B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. are in petroleum engineering. He is GM and Owner of UPTEC (United Petroleum Technology LLC), a training and consulting company. He has taught graduate petroleum engineering courses at the African University of Science and Technology since 2008. Before joining the University of Oklahoma, he was a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Djebbar worked in Algerian oil fields for Alcore S.A. as well as for Core Laboratories and Western Atlas as Senior Reservoir Engineer Advisor. Dr. Tiab has taught courses on reservoir engineering, production, well test analysis and reservoir characterization, and authored/co-authored over 260 technical papers on pressure transient analysis, dynamic flow analysis, petrophysics, natural gas engineering, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering, and injection processes.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant and Senior Professor of Petroleum Engineering, University of Oklahoma

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Erle C. Donaldson

Erle C. Donaldson began his career as a pilot plant project manager for Signal Oil and Gas Research in Houston, Texas. Later he joined the U.S. Bureau of Mines Petroleum Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as a project manager of subsurface disposal and industrial wastes and reservoir characterization; when the laboratory was transferred to the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Donaldson continued as chief of petroleum reservoir characterization. When the laboratory shifted to private industry for operations, he joined the faculty of the School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma as associate professor. Since retiring from the university in 1990, he has consulted for various oil companies, universities, and U.S. agencies including: the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Navy Ordinance Center, King Fahd Research Institute of Saudi Arabia, and companies in the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Thailand.
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Engineering Consultant, Tetrahedron, Inc.

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