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.

• Stay competitive with new content on unconventional reservoir simulation
• Get updated with new material on formation testing and flow simulation for complex well systems and paths
• Apply methods derived from real-world case studies and calculation examples

Reservoir engineers, Petroleum engineers, Graduate-level petroleum engineering students

1. Motivating Ideas and Governing Equations
   2. Fracture Flow Analysis
   3. Flows past Shaly Bodies
   4. Streamline Tracing and Complex Variables
   5. Flows in Complicated Geometries
   6. Radial Flow Analysis
   7. Finite Difference Methods for Planar Flows
   8. Curvilinear Coordinates and Numerical Grid Generation
   9. Steady-State Reservoir Applications
   10. Transient Compressible Flows: Numerical Well Test Simulation
   11. Effective Properties in Single and Multiphase Flows
   12. Modeling Stochastic heterogeneities
   13. Real and Artificial Viscosity
   14. Borehole Flow Invasion, Lost Circulation, and Time Lapse Logging
   15. Horizontal, Deviated, and Modern Multilateral Well Analysis
   16. Fluid Mechanics of Invasion
   17. Static and Dynamic Filtration
   18. Formation Tester Applications
   19. Analytical Methods for Time Lapse Well Logging Analysis
   20. Complex Invasion Problems: Numerical Modeling 
   21. Forward and Inverse Multiphase Flow Modeling
   22. Formation Testing
   23. Reservoir Flow Simulation for Modern Well Systems