Reservoir Engineering Handbook
Tarek Ahmed
Description
The Reservoir Engineering Handbook, equips students with the knowledge to maximize assets in complex, multilayered, and unconventional reservoirs. It presents critical fundamentals such as fluid flow, rock properties, and relative permeability in a straightforward manner, using real-world examples to help grasp derivations and equations. This authoritative handbook introduces essential tools including lab tests of reservoir fluids and water influx calculations, while featuring updated content on hydraulic fracturing and a new chapter dedicated to modern enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques.
Contents:
- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Behavior
- Chapter 2: Reservoir-Fluid Properties
- Chapter 3: Laboratory Analysis of Reservoir Fluids
- Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Rock Properties
- Chapter 5: Relative Permeability Concepts
- Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
- Chapter 7: Oil Well Performance
- Chapter 8: Gas Well Performance
- Chapter 9: Gas and Water Coning
- Chapter 10: Water Influx
- Chapter 11: Oil Recovery Mechanisms and the Material Balance Equation
- Chapter 12: Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance
- Chapter 13: Gas Reservoirs
- Chapter 14: Principles of Waterflooding
- Chapter 15: Vapor-Liquid Phase Equilibria