Quantitative methods in reservoir engineering

Quantitative Methods in Reservoir Engineering, Second Edition, brings together the critical aspects of the industry to create more accurate models and better financial forecasts for oil and gas assets. Updated to cover more practical applications related to intelligent infill drilling, optimized well pattern arrangement, water flooding with modern wells, and multiphase flow, this new edition helps reservoir engineers better lay the mathematical foundations for analytical or semi-analytical methods in today's more difficult reservoir engineering applications. Authored by a worldwide expert on computational flow modeling, this reference integrates current mathematical methods to aid in understanding more complex well systems and ultimately guides the engineer to choose the most profitable well path. The book delivers a valuable tool that will keep reservoir engineers up-to-speed in this fast-paced sector of the oil and gas market.

1.Motivating Ideas and Governing Equations -- Examples of Incorrect Formulations -- Velocity Singularities -- Fracture Flows -- Uniform Flux Fractures -- Mudcake Buildup -- Geometric Gridding -- Averaging Methods -- Upscaling Techniques -- Wells in Layered Media -- Wellbore Models -- Formation Tester Multiphase Flow -- Formation Tester Pressure Transient Interpretation Sweep Efficiency and Streamline Tracing -- Book Objectives Recapitulated -- Darcy's Equations for Flow in Porous Media -- Differential Equations and Boundary Conditions -- Darcy's Laws -- Logarithmic Solutions and Beyond -- Fundamental Aerodynamic Analogies -- Navier-Stokes Equations -- The Darcy Flow Limit -- The Aerodynamic Limit -- Validity of Laplace's Equation -- Different Physical Interpretations -- Meaning of Multivalued Solutions -- Analogies From Inverse Formulations -- Problems and Exercises -- 2.Fracture Flow Analysis -- Example 2.1 Single Straight-Line Fracture in an Isotropic Circular Reservoir Containing Incompressible Fluid -- Formulation -- Singular Integral Equation Analysis -- Specializing Carleman's Results to Fracture Flow -- Physical Meaning of f(x) -- Remark on Muskat's Solution -- Velocity Sin…