Integrated Reservoir Engineering

From Fundamentals to Field Development
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-21420-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 558 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Integrated Reservoir Engineering equips readers with the full spectrum of knowledge and skills needed to understand and manage petroleum reservoirs in today’s energy environment. From its foreword by John Lee, to fundamental rock and fluid properties, to advanced topics in recovery optimization and energy transition technologies, the book supports both undergraduate and graduate-level coursework, while also serving as a professional reference. The material is technically rigorous, thoroughly sourced, and grounded in real-world field practices and engineering judgment.

• Provides an integrated and systems-based treatment of petroleum reservoir engineering.

• Offers detailed chapters on material balance, pressure transient analysis, relative permeability, fluid modeling, well performance, forecasting, enhanced oil recovery, and economic evaluation—all unified by consistent units, notation, and problem-solving methodology.

• Integrates emerging topics such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), horizontal wells, rate-transient analysis, and sustainability considerations.

• Richly illustrated with over 100 original figures, field examples, and homework problems throughout.

• Features numerous worked example problems with supporting information including Python code available for download.

Emphasizing decision-quality insights over black-box models and balancing theoretical depth with applications, this textbook is uniquely valuable for both petroleum engineering classroom instruction and field development planning.

Figure slides are available for adopting professors.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meehan, D. Nathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

0. Front Matter. SECTION I. Fundamentals. 1. Reservoir Engineering. 2. Reservoir Rock Properties. 3. Reservoir Fluid Properties. 4. PVT Measurements for Oil and Gas Reservoirs. SECTION II. Reservoir Fluid Flow. 5. Darcy’s Law and Flow in Porous Media. 6. Reservoir Flow Systems and Geometries. 7. Gas Flow Using Darcy’s Law. 8. Relative Permeability. SECTION III. Material Balance. 9. Pressure–Depth Behavior and Fluid Contacts. 10. Material Balance (Oil and Gas). 11. Aquifer Models and Water-Drive. 12. Forecasting using Material Balance. SECTION IV. Transient Flow and Well Testing. 13. PTA Theory. 14. Production Testing and Pressure Transient Analysis. 15. Well models. 16. Rate Transient Analysis (RTA). SECTION V. Recovery and Optimization. 17. Forecasting Primary Recovery. 18. Immiscible Displacement Processes and Waterflooding. 19. Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)\. 20. Reservoir Simulation. 21. Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs. SECTION VI. Economics and Ethics. 22. Economic Analysis of Oil and Gas Projects. 23. Professionalism and Ethics. Appendix A. Problem Solutions. Appendix B. Units and Constants. References.

Über Autor(innen)

D. Nathan Meehan is L. F. Peterson '36 Professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. He served as the 2016 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. A Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Meehan holds a BSc in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.