A generalized approach to primary hydrocarbon recovery

This reservoir-engineering textbook is a contemporary analysis of primary recovery. It covers rock and fluid properties, reservoir energies, surface separation, laboratory PVT methods, material balance, fluid flow, well deliverability, water influx, reservoir performance, and decline-curve analysis. Using an unified approach, the text includes the full range of reservoir fluids: black oils, volatile oils, gas condensates, wet gases, and dry gases. It also covers the entire range of producing mechanisms, including gas-cap, water-drive, and compaction-drive reservoirs.

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Reservoir energy and producing mechanisms

3 Rock properties

4 Fluid properties

5 Microscopic and macroscopic mass balances

6 The generalized material-balance equation

7 Fluid flow and well performance

8 Laboratory PVT tests and lease separation

9 Rate predictions using tank models

10 Natural water influx

11 Wet- and dry-gas reservoirs

12 Black-oil reservoirs

13 Volatile-oil and gas-condensate reservoirs

14 Decline-curve analysis

Appendix C

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Nomenclature

Reference

Index

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Summary

Summary

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