Lyons W.C. (ed.). Standard handbook of petroleum and natural gas engineering. Volume 2

Gulf Professional Publishing, 1996. — 1077 p.This petroleum and natural gas engineering two-volume handbook is written in the spirit of the classic handbooks of other engineering disciplines. The two volumes reflect the importance of the industry its engineers serve (i.e., Standard and Poor’s shows that the fuels sector is the largest single entity in the gross domestic product) and the profession’s status as a mature engineering discipline.
The project to write these volumes began with an attempt to revise the old Practical Petroleum Engineer’s Handbook that Gulf Publishing had published since the 1940’s. Once the project was initiated, it became clear that any revision of the old handbook would be inadequate. Thus, the decision was made to write an entirely new handbook and to write this handbook in the classic style of the handbooks of the other major engineering disciplines.
This meant giving the handbook initial chapters on mathematics and computer applications, the sciences, general engineering, and auxiliary equipment. These initial chapters set the tone of the handbook by using engineering language and notation common to all engineering disciplines. This common language and notation is used throughout the handbook (language and notation in nearly
all cases is consistent with Society of Petroleum Engineers publication practices). The authors, of which there are 2’7, have tried in avoiding the jargon that had crept into petroleum engineering literature over the past few decades. Our objective was to create a handbook for the petroleum engineering discipline that could be read and understood by any up-to-date engineer.
The specific petroleum engineering discipline chapters cover drilling and well completions, reservoir engineering, production, and economics and valuation. These chapters contain information, data, and example calculations related to practical situations that petroleum engineers often encounter. Also, these chapters reflect the growing role of natural gas in industrial operations by integrating natural gas topics and related subjects throughout both volumes.Contributing AuthorsReservoir EngineeringBasic Principles, Definitions, and Data
Formation Evaluation
Pressure Transient Testing of Oil and Gas Wells
Mechanisms and Recovery of Hydrocarbons by Natural Means
Material Balance and Volumetric Analysis
Decline-Curve Analysis
Reserve Estimates
Secondary Recovery
Fluid Movement in Waterflooded Reservoirs
Estimating Waterflood Residual Oil Saturation
Enhanced Oil Recovery MethodsProduction EngineeringProperties of Hydrocarbon Mixtures
Flow of Fluids
Natural Flow Performance
Artificial Lift Methods
Stimulation and Remedial Operations
Surface Oil Production Systems
Gas Production Engineering
Corrosion and Scaling
Environmental Considerations
Offshore OperationsPetroleum EconomicsEstimating Oil and Gas Reserves
Classification of Petroleum Products
Methods for Estimating Reserves
Non-Associated Gas Reservoirs
Production Stimulation
Determining the Value of Future Production
The Market for Petroleum
Economics and the Petroleum Engineer
Preparation of a Cash Flow
Valuation of Oil and Gas Properties
Risk AnalysisAppendix: Units and Conversions (SI)