Reservoir Engineering

Reservoir Engineering: The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries

Abdus Satter & Ghulam M. Iqbal

Description

Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how they meet economic and technical challenges. Written in easy-to-understand language, the book provides valuable information on modern tools, techniques, and technologies, explaining best practices for reservoir management. Key highlights for students include the way it connects core reservoir fundamentals to current engineering applications and bridges traditional methods with unconventional processes to clearly show the differences between the two. Furthermore, it offers field case studies and workflow diagrams to help students develop and sharpen their management skills, while including a dedicated chapter that introduces reservoir simulation in a lucid fashion.

Contents:

Chapter 1: An introduction to reservoir engineering: Advances in conventional and unconventional recoveries
Chapter 2: Elements of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs
Chapter 3: Reservoir rock properties
Chapter 4: Reservoir fluid properties
Chapter 5: Phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids in reservoirs
Chapter 6: Characterization of conventional and unconventional petroleum reservoirs
Chapter 7: Reservoir life cycle and role of industry professionals
Chapter 8: Petroleum reservoir management processes
Chapter 9: Fundamentals of fluid flow through porous media
Chapter 10: Transient well pressure analysis
Chapter 11: Primary recovery mechanisms and recovery efficiencies
Chapter 12: Determination of oil and gas in place: conventional and unconventional reservoirs
Chapter 13: Decline curve analysis for conventional and unconventional reservoirs
Chapter 14: Reservoir performance analysis by the classical material balance method
Chapter 15: Petroleum reservoir simulation: a primer
Chapter 16: Waterflooding and waterflood surveillance
Chapter 17: Enhanced oil recovery processes: thermal, chemical, and miscible floods
Chapter 18: Horizontal well technology and performance
Chapter 19: Oil and gas recovery methods in low permeability and unconventional reservoirs
Chapter 20: Rejuvenation of reservoirs with declining performance
Chapter 21: Unconventional oil reservoirs
Chapter 22: Unconventional gas reservoirs
Chapter 23: Conventional and unconventional petroleum reserves definitions and world outlook
Chapter 24: Reservoir management economics, risks, and uncertainties