Written by four leading experts, this edition thoroughly introduces today's modern principles of petroleum production systems development and operation, considering the combined behavior of reservoirs, surface equipment, pipeline systems, and storage facilities. The authors address key issues including artificial lift, well diagnosis, matrix stimulation, hydraulic fracturing and sand control. They show how to optimize systems for diverse production schedules using queuing theory, as well as linear and dynamic programming. Throughout, they provide both best practices and rationales, fully illuminating the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.
Key Features
- The definitive guide to petroleum production systems for 16 years: now fully updated with the industry's most valuable new techniques!
- Supports massive worldwide growth in the demand for petroleum engineers (even the older edition has shown substantial sales growth lately).
- Contains extensive new coverage, including new techniques for hydraulic fracturing, sand and water management, and much more.
- Includes all-new examples and problems based on Excel and PPS, plus hundreds of new drawings, many of them 3D.
New to this edition
- Extensive new coverage of hydraulic fracturing, including high permeability fracturing.
- New sand and water management techniques.
- An all-new chapter on Production Analysis.
- New coverage of digital reservoirs and self-learning techniques.
- New skin correlations and HW flow techniques.
- Updated coverage of environmental issues.
Contents
- Chapter 1: The Role of Petroleum Production Engi
- Chapter 2: Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs
- Chapter 3: Production from Two-Phase Reservoirs
- Chapter 4: Production from Natural Gas Reservoirs
- Chapter 5: Production from Horizontal Wells
- Chapter 6: The Near-Wellbore Condition and Damage Characterization; Skin Effects
- Chapter 7: Wellbore Flow Performance
- Chapter 8: Flow in Horizontal Wellbores, Wellheads, and Gathering
- Chapter 9: Well Deliver
- Chapter 10: Forecast of Well Production
- Chapter 11: Gas Lift
- Chapter 12: Pump-Assisted Lift
- Chapter 13: Well Performance Evaluation
- Chapter 14: Matrix Acidizing: Acid/Rock Interactions
- Chapter 15: Sandstone Acidizing Design
- Chapter 16: Carbonate Acidizing Design
- Chapter 17: Hydraulic Fracturing for Well Stimulation
- Chapter 18: The Design and Execution of Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments
- Chapter 19: Sand Management
About the Authors
- Michael J. Economides is professor of engineering at the University of Houston. His work focuses on optimizing hydrocarbon production from reservoir to market. A leading energy analyst, he is editor-in-chief of Energy Tribune and the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.
- A. Daniel Hill is professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, holds the R.L. Whiting endowed chair, and is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
- Christine Ehlig-Economides is professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and holds the A.B. Stevens endowed chair. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
- Ding Zhu, is associate professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, holds the W.D. Von Gonten Faculty Fellowship, and is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
Book Details
- Hardcover: 752 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (© 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0137031580
- ISBN-13: 978-0137031580
- Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.1 x 9.3 inches
- List price: $150.00