Amr Mohamed Badawy - Rock Properties and Reservoir Engineering: A Practical View

The Springer series in Petroleum Engineering promotes and expedites the dissemination of new research results and tutorial views in the field of exploration and production. The series contains monographs, lecture notes, and edited volumes. The subject focus is on upstream petroleum engineering, and coverage extends to all theoretical and applied aspects of the field. Material on traditional drilling and more modern methods such as fracking is of interest, as are topics including but not limited to:

Contributions to the series can be made by submitting a proposal to the responsible publisher, Anthony Doyle at anthony.doyle@springer.com or the Academic Series Editor, Dr. Gbenga Oluyemi g.f.oluyemi@rgu.ac.uk.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15095

This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

This book was written by the authors after long overseas work experience in oil and gas industry, to handle, analyze and usage of reservoir rock properties in Field Development Plan (FDP) work. That is why the title Reservoir Engineering Practical View was chosen for this manuscript. Based on our work experience as reservoir engineers in multi-regions located at different continentals, we have got much of knowledge and skills which encouraged us to share with others to make their evaluation process more easier.

Considering the rock properties which are of more interest to reservoir engineering work, this book is a trial to prepare a detailed reference to cover the subject. It is not the objective of this book to duplicate or repeat the classical reservoir rock properties courses and/or references. In the contrary, it concentrates on the importance of the reservoir rock properties in field development plan works (FDP) work, how the reservoir simulator interprets them and what the user (reservoir engineer) should do to properly introduce them to the simulator. It could be a good idea to describe this text as (Reservoir Rock Properties; What, Why and How?).

We hope that everybody will enjoy going through this book and find it helpful in his/her reservoir development work. It is to be mentioned that any technical matter in this book represents our best understanding. However as technical individuals, we should always consider other points of views.

This book provides several technical information presented in nine chapters. All the chapters defining their content and giving the reader complete view of the rock properties which help the petroleum engineers to understand the evaluation and assessment process and the procedures required during the evaluation of hydrocarbons formation. The chapters were written in a simple way to serve as a rapid reference and guidance based on the discovery type and the amount of reservoir rock data available.

In this book, solution for the exercises introduced in different sections were presented to exemplify the stages covered in this book, permitting the petroleum engineers to understand the evaluation of the whole steps.