Reservoir Engineering in Modern Oilfields : Vertical, Deviated, Horizontal and Multilateral Well Systems.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reservoir Modeling - Background and Overview -- Overview -- Reservoir modeling landscape -- Reflections on simulation and modeling -- Reservoir Flow Algorithms for Petroleum Engineers -- MultisimTM Features - Advanced Interactive Reservoir Modeling -- Reservoir Description -- Well System Modeling -- Additional Simulator Features -- Simple Wells to Multilateral Systems for Laymen -- Advanced Graphics for Color Display -- Tracer Movement in Three-Dimensional Reservoirs -- 2 Mathematical Modeling Ideas, Numerical Methods and Software -- Overview and Background -- Formulation errors -- I/O problems -- Fundamental Issues and Problems -- Numerical stability -- Inadequacies of the von Neumann test -- Convergence -- Physical resolution -- Direct solvers -- Modern simulation requirements -- Pressure constraints -- Flow rate constraints -- Object-oriented geobodies -- Plan for remaining sections -- Governing Equations and Numerical Formulation -- Steady flows of liquids -- Difference equation formulation -- The iterative scheme -- Modeling well constraints for liquids -- Steady and unsteady nonlinear gas flows -- Steady gas flows -- Well constraints for gas flows -- Transient, compressible flows -- Compaction, consolidation and subsidence -- Boundary conforming grids -- Stratigraphic meshes for layered media -- Modeling wellbore storage -- Early 1990s Validation Calculations -- Simulation capabilities -- Data structures and programming -- Example 2-1. Convergence acceleration, two deviated horizontal gas wells in a channel sand -- Example 2-2. Dual-lateral horizontal completion in a fractured, dipping, heterogeneous, layered formation -- Example 2-3. Stratigraphic grids, drilling dome-shaped structures.

Example 2-4. Simulating-while-drilling horizontal gas wells through a dome-shaped reservoir -- Example 2-5. Modeling wellbore storage effects and compressible borehole flow transients -- Run 1. Production well, no wellbore storage effects -- Run 2. Production well, with some wellbore storage effects -- Run 3. Production well, with more wellbore storage effects -- Run 4. Injector well, without wellbore storage effects -- Run 5. Injector well, with wellbore storage effects -- 3 Simulation Capabilities - User Interface with Basic Well -- Example 3-1. Single vertical well, user interface and menu structure for steady flow -- Example 3-2. Volume flow rate constraint at a well -- Example 3-3. Pressure constraint and transient shut-in -- Example 3-4. Heterogeneities, anisotropy and multiple wells -- Example 3-5. Reversing well constraints - consistency check -- Example 3-6. Changing farfield boundary conditions -- Example 3-7. Fluid depletion in a sealed reservoir -- Example 3-8. Depletion in rate constrained well in sealed reservoir -- Example 3-9. Steady flow from five spot pattern -- Example 3-10. Drilling additional wells while simulating -- 4 Vertical, Deviated, Horizontal and Multilateral Well Systems -- Overview -- Example 4-1. Multilateral and Vertical Wells in Multilayer Media -- Example 4-2. Dual lateral with transient operations -- Example 4-3. Producer and injector conversions -- Example 4-4. Production with top and bottom drives -- Example 4-5. Transient gas production from dual horizontal with wellbore storage effects -- 5 Well Models and Productivity Indexes -- Radial vs 3D modeling loss of wellbore resolution -- Analogies in computational aerodynamics -- Curvilinear grids in reservoir simulation -- Productivity index modeling -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Professional interests -- Scientific book publications.

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