Reservoir Engineering Handbook

by Tarek Ahmed

Overview

Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Fifth Edition, equips engineers and students with the knowledge required to continue maximizing reservoir assets, especially as more reservoirs become complex, multi-layered, and unconventional in their extraction methods. Building on the solid reputation of the previous edition, this new volume presents critical concepts, such as fluid flow, rock properties, water and gas coning, and relative permeability in a straightforward manner. Water influx calculations, lab tests of reservoir fluids, oil and gas performance calculations, and other essential tools of the trade are also introduced, reflecting on today’s operations.

New to this edition is an additional chapter devoted to enhanced oil recovery techniques, including WAG. Critical new advances in areas such as well performance, waterflooding, and an analysis of decline and type curves are also addressed, along with more information on the growing extraction from unconventional reservoirs. Practical and critical for new practicing reservoir engineers and petroleum engineering students, this book remains the authoritative handbook on modern reservoir engineering and its theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128136492
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/19/2018
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	1524
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

consulting firm that specializes in in-house petroleum engineering courses and consulting services worldwide. Prior to that, he was a Reservoir Engineering Advisor for Anadarko, Baker Hughes, and Gaffney, Cline and Associates and was a Professor and head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Montana Tech of the University of Montana for 22 years. Dr. Ahmed has authored numerous papers and several successful books with Elsevier, including Advanced Reservoir Management and Engineering, 2nd Edition.

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Behavior
2. Reservoir-Fluid Properties
3. Laboratory Analysis of Reservoir Fluids
4. Fundamentals of Rock Properties
5. Relative Permeability Concepts
6. Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
7. Oil Well Performance
8. Gas Well Performance
9. Gas and Water Coning
10. Water Influx 
11. Oil Recovery Mechanisms and the Material Balance Equation
12. Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance
13. Gas Reservoirs
14. Principles of Waterflooding
15. Vapor-Liquid Phase Equilibria
16. Analysis of Decline and Type Curves
17. Fractured Reservoirs
18. Enhanced Oil Recovery

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"...this publication provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference tool for the reservoir engineer or reservoir engineering student. It covers reservoir fluid behaviour and properties, including laboratory analysis and reservoir fluid flow. It provides a guide to predicting oil reservoir performance through analysis of oil recovery mechanisms and performance calculations, and explains the fundamentals of reservoir engineering and their application through a comprehensive field study..." —Petroleum Review, May 2002

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