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By JOHN R FANCHI, PH.D., Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
Description SHORT BLURB/BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The hottest, most important topic to reservoir engineers is reservoir simulation. Reservoir simulations
are literally pictures of what a reservoir of oil or gas looks, or should look, like under the surface of the earth. A multitude of
tools is available to the engineer to generate these pictures, and, essentially, the more accurate the picture, the easier the engineer
can get the product out of the ground, and, thus, the more profitable the well will be.
UNIQUE FEATURE: Completely revised and updated
throughout, this new edition of a GPP industry standard has completely new sections on coalbed methane, CO2 sequestration (important
for environmental concerns), Co2 Flood, more sophisticated petrophysical models for geoscientists, examples of subsidence, additional
geomechanical calculations, and much more. What makes this book so different and valuable to the engineer is the accompanying software,
used by reservoir engineers all over the world every day. The new software, IFLO (replacing WINB4D, in previous editions), is a simulator
that the engineer can easily install in a Windows operating environment. IFLO generates simulations of how the well can be tapped and
feeds this to the engineer in dynamic 3D perspective. This completely new software is much more functional, with better graphics and
more scenarios from which the engineer can generate simulations.
BENEFIT TO THE READER: This book and software helps the reservoir engineer
do his or her job on a daily basis, better, more economically, and more efficiently. Without simulations, the reservoir engineer would
not be able to do his or her job at all, and the technology available in this product is far superior to most companies? internal simulation
software. It is also much less expensive ($89.95 versus hundreds or even thousands of dollars) than off-the-shelf packages available
from independent software companies servicing the oil and gas industry. It is, however, just as, or more accurate than these overpriced
competitors, having been created by a high-profile industry expert and having been used by engineers in the real world with successful
and profitable results.
Contents Preface to Third Edition
About the Author
Introduction to Reservoir Management
1.1 Consensus Modeling
1.2 Management of Simulation Studies
1.3 ?Hands-On? Simulation
1.4 Outline of the Text Exercises
Part I - Reservoir Engineering Primer
Basic Reservoir Analysis
2.1 Volumetrics
2.2 IFLO Volumetrics
2.3 Material Balance
2.4 Decline Curve Analysis
2.5 IFLO Application: Depletion of a Gas Reservoir
vi Principles
of Applied Reservoir Simulation
Exercises
3 Multiphase Flow Concepts
3.1 Basic Concepts
3.2 Capillary Pressure
3.3 Relative Permeability
3.4 Mobility and Fractional Flow
3.5Flow Concepts in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Exercises
4 Fluid Displacement
4.1 Buckley-Leverett
Theory
4.2 Welge?s Method
4.3 Miscible Displacement
4.4 Viscous Fingering
4.5IFLO Application: Buckley-Leverett Displacement
Exercises
5 Frontal Stability
5.1 Frontal Advance Neglecting Gravity
5.2 Frontal Advance Including Gravity
5.3 Linear Stability Analysis
5.4 IFLO
Application: Frontal Advance in a Dipping Reservoir Exercises
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Pattern Floods
6.1 Recovery Efficiency
6.2 Patterns
and Spacing
6.3 Advances in Drilling Technology
6.4 Pattern Recovery
6.5 IFLO Application: Five-Spot Waterflood
6.6 IFLO Application:
Line-Drive Waterflood in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir Exercises
7 Recovery of Subsurface Resources
7.1 Production Stages
7.2 Enhanced
Oil Recovery
7.3 Unconventional Fossil Fuels
7.4 IFLO Coal Gas Model
7.5 IFLO Application: Coal Gas Production from a Fruitland Coal
Exercises
8 Economics and the Environment
8.1 Society of Petroleum Engineers and World Petroleum Congress Reserves
8.2 Basic Economic
Concepts
8.3 Investment Decision Analysis
8.4 Environmental Impact
viii Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation
8.5 IFLO Application:
CO2 Sequestration in a Mature Oil Field Exercises
Part II - Reservoir Simulation
9 Multiphase Fluid Flow Equations
9.1 The Continuity
Equation
9.2 Conservation Laws
9.3 Flow Equations for Black Oil Simulation
9.4 Flow Equations for Compositional Simulation
9.5 Flow Equations
for IFLO
9.6 Simulator Selection and Ockham?s Razor
9.7 IFLO Application: Gas Injection into a Light Oil Reservoir Exercises
10 Fundamentals
of Reservoir Simulation
10.1 Simulator Solution Procedures
10.2 Numerical Dispersion
10.3 IFLO Solution Procedure
10.4 IFLO Transmissibility
10.5 IFLO Well Model
10.6 IFLO Application: Throughput in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir Model Exercises
Table of Contents ix
Overview
of the Modeling Process
11.1 Prerequisites
11.2 Major Elements of a Reservoir Simulation Study
11.3 Reservoir Management Modeling System
11.4 Wellbore Modeling
11.5 Wellbore-Reservoir Coupling
11.6 Reservoir-Aquifer Model Exercises
12 Conceptual Reservoir Scales
12.1 Reservoir
Sampling and Scales
12.2 Reservoir Geophysics
12.3 Correlating Reservoir Properties to Seismic Data
12.4 IFLO Petrophysical Model
12.5
IFLO Application: Scheduling Time-Lapse Seismic Surveys
Exercises
13 Flow Units
13.1 Well Log Data
13.2 Pressure Transient Test Data
13.3 Pressure Correction
13.4 Integrating Scales: The Flow Unit
13.5 IFLO Application: Valley Fill Waterflood
x Principles of Applied
Reservoir Simulation
Exercises
14 Rock Properties
14.1 Porosity
14.2 Permeability
14.3 Porosity-Permeability Models
14.4 Permeability-Porosity-Fluid
Pressure Relationships
14.5 IFLO Geomechanical Model
14.6 IFLO Application: Geomechanics and Compaction
Exercises
15 Distributing Rock
Properties
15.1 Types of Flow Models
15.2 Traditional Mapping
15.3 Computer Generated Mapping
15.4 Geostatistics and Kriging
15.5 Geostatistical
Case Study
Exercises
16 Fluid Properties
16.1 Fluid Types
16.2 Fluid Modeling
16.3 Fluid Sampling
16.4 IFLO Fluid Model
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16.5 Rock-Fluid Interaction
Exercises
17 Model Initialization
17.1 Grid Definition
17.2 Grid Orientation Effect
17.3 IFLO Initialization
Model
17.4 Case Study: Introduction
Exercises
18 History Matching
18.1 Data Preparation
18.2 Illustrative History Matching Strategies
18.3 Key History Matching Parameters
18.4 Evaluating the History Match
18.5 Case Study: Data Analysis and Grid Preparation
Exercises
19 Predictions
19.1 Prediction Process
19.2 Sensitivity Analyses
19.3 Prediction Capabilities
19.4 Validity of Model Predictions
19.5
Case Study: History Match and Prediction
xii Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation
Exercises
Part III: IFLO User?s Manual
Introduction
to IFLO
20.1 Input Data File
20.2 IFLO Execution
20.3 IFLO Output Files
21 Initialization Data
21.1 Model Dimensions and Geometry
21.2
Porosity and Permeability Distributions
21.3 Rock Region Information
21.4 Modifications to Pore Volumes and Transmissibilities
21.5 Reservoir
Geophysical Parameters
21.6 Fluid PVT Tables
21.7 Miscible Solvent Data
21.8 Pressure and Saturation Initialization
21.9 Run Control
Parameters
21.10 Analytic Aquifer Models
21.11 Coal Gas Model
22 Recurrent Data
22.1 Time Step and Output Control
22.2 Well Information
Table of Contents xiii
Appendix A: Unit Conversion Factors
Appendix B: Example IFLO Input Data Set References Index
Bibliographic & ordering Information Hardbound, 532 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7933-6
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7933-6
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