Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Third Edition

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Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Third Edition

Ronald E. Terry J. Brandon Rogers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Terry, Ronald E.

Applied petroleum reservoir engineering / Ronald E. Terry, J. Brandon

Rogers.--Third edition.

pages cm

Original edition published: Applied petroleum reservoir engineering /

by B.C. Craft and M.F. Hawkins. 1959.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-13-315558-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Petroleum engineering. 2. Oil reservoir engineering. I. Rogers,

J. Brandon. II. Craft, B. C. (Benjamin Cole) III. Title.

TN870.C88 2014

622'.338--dc23

2014017944

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Contents

Preface

xiii

Preface to the Second Edition

xv

About the Authors

xvii

Nomenclature

xix

Chapter 1 Introduction to Petroleum Reservoirs and Reservoir Engineering 1

1.1 Introduction to Petroleum Reservoirs

1

1.2 History of Reservoir Engineering

4

1.3 Introduction to Terminology

7

1.4 Reservoir Types Defined with Reference to Phase Diagrams

9

1.5 Production from Petroleum Reservoirs

13

1.6 Peak Oil

14

Problems

18

References

19

Chapter 2 Review of Rock and Fluid Properties

21

2.1 Introduction

21

2.2 Review of Rock Properties

21

2.2.1 Porosity

22

2.2.2 Isothermal Compressibility

22

2.2.3 Fluid Saturations

24

2.3 Review of Gas Properties

24

2.3.1 Ideal Gas Law

24

2.3.2 Specific Gravity

25

2.3.3 Real Gas Law

26

2.3.4 Formation Volume Factor and Density

34

2.3.5 Isothermal Compressibility

35

2.3.6 Viscosity

41

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