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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:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 2 1 9 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 5 2 3 - 1
Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the o… Read more
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Request a sales quoteReservoir 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, TexasGI
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Consultant, Washington, D.C., USA