Ronald E. Terry - Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering

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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'.338dc23 2014017944

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-315558-7
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Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at Courier in Westford, Massachusetts.
Second printing, July 2015

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As in the first revision, the authors have tried to retain the flavor and format of the original text. The text contains many of the field examples that made the original text and the second edition so popular.

The third edition features an introduction to key terms in reservoir engineering. This introduction has been designed to aid those without prior exposure to petroleum engineering to quickly become familiar with the concepts and vocabulary used throughout the book and in industry. In addition, a more extensive glossary and index has been included. The text has been updated to reflect modern industrial practice, with major revisions occurring in the sections regarding gas condensate reservoirs, waterflooding, and enhanced oil recovery. The history matching examples throughout the text and culminating in the final chapter have been revised, using Microsoft Excel with VBA as the primary computational tool.

The purpose of this book has been, and continues to be, to prepare engineering students and practitioners to understand and work in petroleum reservoir engineering. The book begins with an introduction to key terms and an introduction to the history of reservoir engineering. The material balance approach to reservoir engineering is covered in detail and is applied in turn to each of four types of reservoirs. The latter half of the book covers the principles of fluid flow, water influx, and advanced recovery techniques. The last chapter of the book brings together the key topics in a history matching exercise that requires matching the production of wells and predicting the future production from those wells.

In short, the book has been updated to reflect current practices and technology and is more reader friendly, with introductions to vocabulary and concepts as well as examples using Microsoft Excel with VBA as the computational tool.

Ronald E. Terry and J. Brandon Rogers

Shortly after undertaking the project of revising the text Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering by Ben Craft and Murray Hawkins, several colleagues expressed the wish that the revision retain the flavor and format of the original text. I am happy to say that I have attempted to do just that. The text contains many of the field examples that made the original text so popular and still more have been added. The revision includes a reorganization of the material as well as updated material in several chapters.

The chapters were reorganized to follow a sequence used in a typical undergraduate course in reservoir engineering. The first chapters contain an introduction to reservoir engineering, a review of fluid properties, and a derivation of the general material balance equation. The next chapters present information on applying the material balance equation to different reservoir types. The remaining chapters contain information on fluid flow in reservoirs and methods to predict hydrocarbon recoveries as a function of time.

There were some problems in the original text with units. I have attempted to eliminate these problems by using a consistent definition of terms. For example, formation volume factor is expressed in reservoir volume/surface condition volume. A consistent set of units is used throughout the text. The units used are ones standardized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.