
Well Productivity Handbook
Vertical, Fractured, Horizontal, Multilateral, Multi-fractured, and Radial-Fractured Wells
Description
Key Features
- Covers the full range of completion projects, from simple to unconventional, including multi-layer and multi-fractured well deliverability
- Includes practice examples to calculate, future references, and summaries at the end of every chapter
- Updated throughout, with complex well trajectories, new case studies and essential derivations
Readership
Reservoir engineers; production engineers; graduate-level petroleum engineering students
Table of Contents
- 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
Problems2: Petroleum Reservoir Properties
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Reservoir Fluid Properties
2.3 Reservoir Rock Properties
Summary
References
Problems3: 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
Problems4: 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
Problems5: 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
ProblemsPart 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
Problems7: 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
Problems8: 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 266
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2019
- Published: July 31, 2019
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128182642
- eBook ISBN: 9780128182659