Petroleum Production Systems

Written by four leading experts, this edition thoroughly introduces today''s modern principles of petroleum production systems development and operation, considering the combined behaviour of reservoirs, surface equipment, pipeline systems, and storage facilities. The authors address key issues including artificial lift, well diagnosis, matrix stimulation, hydraulic fracturing and sand control. They show how to optimise systems for diverse production schedules using queuing theory, as well as linear and dynamic programming. Throughout, they provide both best practices and rationales, fully illuminating the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.

Updates include:

• Extensive new coverage of hydraulic fracturing, including high permeability fracturing
• New sand and water management techniques * An all-new chapter on Production Analysis
• New coverage of digital reservoirs and self-learning techniques
•  New skin correlations and HW flow techniques

Petroleum Production Systems, Second Edition, is the comprehensive source for clear and fundamental methods for about modern petroleum production engineering practice. Written by four leading experts, it thoroughly introduces modern principles of petroleum production systems design and operation, fully considering the combined behavior of reservoirs, surface equipment, pipeline systems, and storage facilities. Long considered the definitive text for production engineers, this edition adds extensive new coverage of hydraulic fracturing, with emphasis on well productivity optimization. It presents new chapters on horizontal wells and well performance evaluation, including production data analysis and sand management.

This edition features

• A structured approach spanning classical production engineering, well testing, production logging, artificial lift, and matrix and hydraulic fracture stimulation
• Revisions throughout to reflect recent innovations and extensive feedback from both students and colleagues
• Detailed coverage of modern best practices and their rationales
• Unconventional oil and gas well design
• Many new examples and problems
• Detailed data sets for three characteristic reservoir types: an undersaturated oil reservoir, a saturated oil reservoir, and a gas reservoir