
Advanced Well Completion Engineering
Description
Key Features
- One of the only books devoted to the key technologies for all major aspects of advanced well completion activities.
- Unique coverage of all aspects of well completion activities based on 25 years in the exploration, production and completion industry.
- Matchless in-depth technical advice for achieving operational excellence with advance solutions.
Readership
Drilling, completion, production, reservoir, and research engineers; geologists; managers in drilling, completion, production, and exploration; others involved in various phases of horizontal and multilateral wells or interested in gaining an interdisciplinary up-to-date understanding of this continually evolving technology
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1. Basis of Well Completion Engineering
1.1. Grounds of reservoir geology and reservoir engineering
1.2. Core analysis techniques
1.3. Reservoir sensitivity to fluid and working fluid damage evaluation
1.4. Reservoir stress sensitivity analysis
1.5. In situ stress and mechanical parameters of rock
1.6. Technological grounds of petroleum production engineering
Chapter 2. Well Completion Mode Selection
2.1. Vertical, slant, and directional well completion
Chapter 3. Selection and Determination of Tubing and Production Casing Sizes
3.1. Overview
3.2. Overview of nodal analysis
3.3. Selection and determination of tubing and production casing sizes for flowing wells
3.4. Selection and determination of tubing and production casing sizes for gas wells
3.5. Selection and determination of tubing and production casing sizes for artificial lift wells
3.6. Effects of stimulation on tubing and production casing size selection
3.7. Selection and determination of tubing and production casing sizes for heavy oil and high pour-point oil production wells
Chapter 4. Completion and Perforating Fluids
4.1. Functions of drilling and completion fluid and basic requirements
4.2. Drilling and completion fluid systems and application
4.3. Shield-type temporary plugging technique
4.4. Drilling and completion fluid for a complicated reservoir
4.5. Perforating fluid
Chapter 5. Production Casing and Cementing
5.1. Basic Requirements for Production Casing Design and Integrity Management of Production Casing
5.2. Hole Structure and Types of Casing
5.3. Strength of Casing and Strength Design of Casing String
5.4. Cementing
5.5. Production Casing and Cementing for Complex Type Wells
Chapter 6. Perforating
6.1. Perforating Technology
6.2. Perforated Well Productivity Influencing Rule Analysis
6.3. Perforating Differential Pressure Design
6.4. Optimizing the Perforation Design
Chapter 7. Well Completion Formation Damage Evaluation
7.1. Overview
7.2. Principle of Formation Damage Evaluation by Well Testing
7.3. Formation Damage Diagnosis of Homogeneous Reservoir by Graphic Characteristics
7.4. Graphic Characteristics of a Dual Porosity Reservoir and a Reservoir with a Hydraulically Created Fracture
7.5. Distinguishing Effectiveness of Stimulation by Graphic Characteristics
7.6. Quantitative Interpretation of Degree of Formation Damage
7.7. Well Logging Evaluation of Formation Damage Depth
Chapter 8. Measures for Putting a Well into Production
8.1. Preparations before Putting a Well into Production
8.2. Main Measures for Putting the Well into Production
8.3. Physical and Chemical Blocking Removal
8.4. Hydraulic Fracturing for Putting a Well into Production
8.5. Acidizing for Putting a Well into Production
8.6. High-Energy Gas Fracturing for Putting a Well into Production
8.7. Flowing Back
Chapter 9. Well Completion Tubing String
9.1. Oil Well Completion Tubing String
9.2. Gas Well Completion Tubing String
9.3. Separate-Layer Water Injection String
9.4. Heavy Oil Production Tubing String
9.5. Completion Tubing String Safety System
9.6. Tubing String Mechanics
Chapter 10. Wellhead Assembly
10.1. Oil-Well Christmas Tree and Tubinghead
10.2. Gas-Well Christmas Tree and Tubinghead
10.3. Water Injection and Thermal Production Wellhead Assembly
10.4. Common Components of a Wellhead Assembly
Chapter 11. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
11.1. Related Calculation of Oil and Gas Well Corrosion
11.2. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion Mechanisms and Classification
11.3. Material Selection for Corrosive Environment of Oil and Gas Wells
11.4. Oil and Gas Well Corrosion Prevention Design
11.5. Tubing and Casing Corrosion Prevention for Sour Gas Reservoirs
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 736
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2011
- Published: July 11, 2011
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123858689
- eBook ISBN: 9780123858696
About the Author
Renpu Wan
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