Working Guide to Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow - Softcover

Ahmed, Tarek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856178250 ISBN 13: 9781856178259

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Working Guide to Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow provides an introduction to the properties of rocks and fluids that are essential in petroleum engineering. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 discusses the classification of reservoirs and reservoir fluids. Part 2 explains different rock properties, including porosity, saturation, wettability, surface and interfacial tension, permeability, and compressibility. Part 3 presents the mathematical relationships that describe the flow behavior of the reservoir fluids. The primary reservoir characteristics that must be considered include: types of fluids in the reservoir, flow regimes, reservoir geometry, and the number of flowing fluids in the reservoir. Each part concludes with sample problems to test readers knowledge of the topic covered.

• Critical properties of reservoir rocks Fluid (oil, water, and gas)
• PVT relationships
• Methods to calculate hydrocarbons initially in place
• Dynamic techniques to assess reservoir performance
• Parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time

About this title

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.

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Technology: Engineering. Energy

Working Guide Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow

Tarek Ahmed

Senior Staff Advisor with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Gain critical insight into fluid storage and flow in reservoirs

Key Features

• Key exercises and practical examples from the field
• Dynamic techniques to assess reservoir performance
• Parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time

Concise and readable, Working Guide to Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow provides engineers with a handy guide to the critical properties of reservoir rock fluids (oil, water, and gas), PVT relationships, and methods to calculate hydrocarbons initially in place. The book’s three part treatment starts with a clear exposition of the fundamentals of rock properties such as porosity, saturation and wettability followed by fundamentals of reservoir fluid behavior and fluid flow. With this guide, Engineers will gain valuable insight into the phenomena and dominate calculations that are common in the areas of reservoir and production engineering.

Topics covered in the guide include:

• Capillary pressure
• Permeability
• Rock compressibility
• Net pay thickness
• Reservoir heterogeneity
• Areal heterogeneity.

Concepts and practical examples in topics such as flow regimes, reservoir geometry and fluid flow equations are presented in a easy to understand manner to assist reservoir and exploitation engineers in their primary functions―the determination of oil and gas reserves and the maximization of hydrocarbon recovery under primary, secondary, and tertiary schemes.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856178250
• ISBN 13: 9781856178259
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300