Well Productivity Handbook

Well Productivity Handbook, 2nd edition delivers updated examples and solutions for oil and gas well management projects. Improved to address the productivity models of both simple and complex completions, this reference provides engineers the full scope of productivity with all types of completions including wells that require artificial lift. Starting simple with estimating fluid properties and estimation of reservoir properties, the content discusses modelling of inflow performance of wells producing different types of fluids and describes the principle of well productivity analysis to show how to predict productivity of wells with simple trajectories. Advancing into more complex trajectories, the new edition demonstrates predicting productivity for more challenging wells such as multi-lateral, multi-fractured, and radial-fractured. Rounding out with sample problems to solve and future references to pursue, Well Productivity Handbook, 2nd edition continues to give reservoir and production engineers the tools needed to tackle the full spectrum of completion types. Advancing into more complex trajectories, the new edition demonstrates predicting productivity for more challenging wells such as multi-lateral, multi-fractured, and radial-fractured. Rounding out with sample problems to solve and future references to pursue, Well Productivity Handbook, 2nd edition continues to give reservoir and production engineers the tools needed to tackle the full spectrum of completion types.

Key Features

*Cover the full range of completion projects, from simple to unconventional including multi-layer and multi-fractured well deliverability.

*Delivers practical elements such as, practice examples to calculate, future references, and summaries at the end of every chapter.

*Updated with complex well trajectories, new case studies, and essential derivations.

About the Author

Dr. Boyun Guo is well known for his contributions to the energy industry in multiphase flow in pipe systems and horizontal well engineering. He is currently a Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Petroleum Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS).  He has over 25 years of work experience in the oil and gas industry and academia and has worked for New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Daqing Petroleum Administrative Bureau. He holds a BS degree in Engineering from Daqing Petroleum Institute of China, MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Boyun has authored multiple papers, served on many association committees, and published 10 books of which 9 of those reside with Elsevier.

Below is a list of Excel spreadsheets that accompany the book’s material, helping the petroleum engineer practice and be more efficient in every day decisions

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