Reservoir Engineering Handbook
By- Tarek Ahmed, PhD, PE, Engineering Advisor with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Reorganized for easy use, Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition provides an up-to-date reference to the tools, techniques, and science for predicting oil reservoir performance even in the most difficult fields.
Topics covered in the handbook include:
- Processes to enhance production
- Well modification to maximize oil and gas recovery
- Completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, and well surveys
Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition provides solid information and insight for engineers and students alike on maximizing production from a field in order to obtain the best possible economic return. With this handbook, professionals will find a valuable reference for understanding the key relationships among the different operating variables. Examples contained in this reference demonstrate the performance of processes under forceful conditions through a wide variety of applications.
Audience
Petroleum Engineer, Reservoir Engineer, Production Engineer, Drilling Engineer, Completion Engineer, Operations Engineer, Drilling Manager, Operations Manager, Project Production Engineer, Project Reservoir Engineer
Hardbound, 1472 pages
Published: January 2010
Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-85617-803-7
Contents
- Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Behavior
- Reservoir-Fluid Properties
- Laboratory Analysis of Reservoir Fluids
- Fundamentals of Rock Properties
- Relative Permeability Concepts
- Fundamentals of Reservoir Fluid Flow
- Oil Well Performance
- Gas Well Performance
- Gas and Water Coning
- Water Influx
- Oil Recovery Mechanisms and the Material Balance Equation
- Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance
- Gas Reservoirs
- Principles of Waterflooding
- Vapor-Liquid Phase Equilibria
- Analysis of Decline and Type Curves
- Fractured Reservoirs

