Working Guide to Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow

Key Features

• Key exercises and practical examples from the field

• Dynamic techniques to assess reservoir performance

• Parameters that impact well/reservoir performance over time

Concise and readable, Working Guide to Reservoir Rock Properties and Fluid Flow provides engineers with a handy guide to the critical properties of reservoir rock fluids (oil, water, and gas), PVT relationships, and methods to calculate hydrocarbons initially in place. The book's three part treatment starts with a clear exposition of the fundamentals of rock properties such as porosity, saturation and wettability followed by fundamentals of reservoir fluid behavior and fluid flow. With this guide, Engineers will gain valuable insight into the phenomena and dominate calculations that are common in the areas of reservoir and production engineering.

Topics covered in the guide include:

• Capillary pressure

• Permeability

• Rock compressibility

• Net pay thickness

• Reservoir heterogeneity

• Areal heterogeneity.

Concepts and practical examples in topics such as flow regimes, reservoir geometry and fluid flow equations are presented in a easy to understand manner to assist reservoir and exploitation engineers in their primary functions-the determination of oil and gas reserves and the maximization of hydrocarbon recovery under primary, secondary, and tertiary schemes.