Well Productivity Handbook

Reservoir and production engineers are required to understand and adapt to a larger number of production challenges and more complex well structures in today’s markets. Well Productivity Handbook, Second 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 of 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 mult-lateral, multi-fractured, and radial-fractured. Rounding out with sample problems to solve and future references to pursue, Well Productivity Handbook, Second Edition, continues to give reservoir and production engineers the tool needed to tackle the full spectrum of completion types.

• Covers 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

Reservoir engineers; production engineers; graduate-level petroleum engineering students

Part I: Well Productivity Basics

1: Introduction
1.1 Oil and Gas Wells and Reservoirs
1.2 Types of Well Completions
1.3 Well Productivity
Summary
References
Problems

2: Petroleum Reservoir Properties
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Reservoir Fluid Properties
2.3 Reservoir Rock Properties
Summary
References
Problems

3: Reservoir Deliverability
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Vertical Wells
3.3 Fractured Wells
3.4 Horizontal Wells
3.5 Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)
3.6 Construction of IPR Curves Using Test Points
3.7 Composite IPR of Stratified Reservoirs
3.8 Predicting Future IPR
Summary
References
Problems

4: Wellbore Performance
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Single-Phase Liquid Flow
4.3 Multiphase Flow in Oil Wells
4.4 Single-Phase Gas Flow
4.5 Mist Flow in Gas Wells
Summary
References
Problems

5: Productivities of Wells with Conventional Completions
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Principles of Well Productivity Analysis
5.3 Deliverability of Vertical Wells
5.4Deliverability of Fractured Wells
5.5 Deliverability of Horizontal Wells
Summary References
Problems

Part II: Productivity of Multi-Lateral Wells

6: Productivity of Wells with Simple Completions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Multi-Lateral Oil Wells
6.3 Multi-Lateral Gas Wells
Summary
References
Problems

7: Productivity of Multi-Fractured Horizontal Wells
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Multi-Fractured Horizontal Oil Wells
7.3 Multi-Fractured Horizontal Gas Wells
Summary
References
Problems

8: Productivity of Radial-Fractured Wells
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Estimate of Fracture Angle
8.3 Productivity of Radial-Fractured Oil Wells
8.4 Productivity of Radial-Fractured Gas Wells
Summary
References
Problems

Appendix
A: Unit Conversion Factors
B: Minimum Performance Properties of API Tubing
C: Mathematical Model for Obtaining Oil Rate Correction Factor FO
D: Mathematical Model for Obtaining Oil Rate Correction Factor FG