Reservoir Monitoring Handbook

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-382209-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch

Modern reservoir management requires continuous downhole monitoring systems to optimize the economic and operational performance of the assets. Parameters such as pressure, temperature and fluid flow provide valuable insights into the depletion dynamics of a reservoir that, if optimized, can be highly beneficial to the productivity and economics of the well. Unfortunately, oil and gas reservoirs represent some of the harshest, least accessible, environments on earth. This book is designed to familiarize engineers and management with the measurement systems, analysis/interpretation tools, and challenges available for reservoir monitoring activities.

Brief and readable this basic guide to Reservoir Monitoring will cover most aspects of reservoir monitoring design and application including traditional methods, as well as methods tailored to monitor the geomechanical response of a reservoir. The book begins with a clear and rigorous discussion of the challenges faced in producing and optimizing recovery from each type of reservoirs. This is followed by self-contained chapters concerning methods. These methods are currently available to the operator, the benefits, and challenges for each method, and will provides case studies illustrating the benefits and learning's achieved through properly designed reservoir monitoring programs.

The author presents the technical background and key monitoring aspects of a number of complimentary technologies, along with the application to monitor a variety of injections including SAGD, CSS, Waterflood, Fireflood, Waste injection, Co2 sequestration and other EOR projects. The book covers all aspects of monitoring design and optimization, installation, acquisition, processing and interpretation.

Zielgruppe

<p>Petroleum Engineer, Reservoir Engineer, Production Engineer, Drilling Engineer, Completion Engineer, Operations Engineer, Drilling Manager, Operations Manager, Project Production Engineer, Project Reservoir Engineer </p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meehan, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Öl- und Gasindustrie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Ölförderung, Gasförderung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geotechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Modern reservoir management applications2. Characterization approaches3. Field level monitoring4. Surface monitoring approaches5. Single well monitoring6. Crosswell monitoring7. Smart wells, i-fields8. Economics and risk analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Meehan, Nathan
Dr. D. Nathan Meehan is President of CMG Petroleum Consulting, an energy advisory firm founded in 2001. He was formerly President of Gaffney, Cline & Associates and a senior executive at Baker Hughes. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering for Occidental Oil & Gas, and served as the 2016 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. 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 PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. With more than 42 years of industry experience, he is an SPE Distinguished Member and received SPE Honorary Membership, the highest award the Society gives. He serves on the boards of the University of Oklahoma Board of Visitors for the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy and the University of Texas Petroleum Engineering Department. He is a licensed professional engineer in four states.