Quantitative Methods in Reservoir Engineering

For the practitioner, this volume is a valuable tool for predicting reservoir flow in the most efficient and profitable manner possible, using quantitative methods rather than anecdotal and outdated methods. For the student, this volume offers insight not covered in other textbooks.

Too many approaches in traditional petroleum engineering are based on "ad hoc" and "common sense" methods that have no rigorous mathematical basis. Most textbooks dealing with reservoir engineering do not go into the necessary mathematical detail and depth. This new book by Wilson Chin, a revision of two earlier books published by Gulf Publishing, Modern Reservoir Flow and Well Transient Analysis and Formation Invasion, integrates rigorous mathematical methods for simulating and predicting reservoir flow both near and away from the well.

Motivating Ideas and Governing Equations
Fracture Flow Analysis
Flows Past Shaly Bodies
Streamline Tracing and Complex Variables
Flows in Complicated Geometries
Radial Flow Analysis
Finite Difference Methods for Planar Flows
Curvilinear Coordinates and Numerical Grid Generation
Steady State Reservoir Applications
Transient Compressible Flows
Effective Properties in Single and Multiphase Flows
Modeling Stochastic Heterogeneities
Real and Artificial Viscosity
Borehole Invasion, Lost Circulation, Time Lapse Logging
Horizontal, Deviated, and Modern Multilateral Well Analysis
Fluid Mechanics of Invasion; Static and Dynamic Filtration
Formation Tester Applications
Analytical Methods for Time Lapse Well Logging Analysis
Complex Invasion Problems: Numerical Modeling
Forward and Inverse Multiphase Flow Modeling