Gas Well Testing Handbook

Amanat Chaudhry

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9780750677059
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080523729
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Gas Well Testing Handbook deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity. A highly practical edition, this book is written for graduate students, reservoir/simulation engineers, technologists, geologists, geophysicists, and technical managers. The author draws from his extensive experience in reservoir/simulation, well testing, PVT analysis basics, and production operations from around the world and provides the reader with a thorough understanding of gas well test analysis basics. The main emphasis is on practical field application, where over 100 field examples are resented to illustrate basic methods for analysis. Simple solutions to the diffusivity equation are discussed and their physical meanings examined. Each chapter focuses in how to use the information gained in well testing to make engineering and economic decisions, and an overview of the current research models and their equations are discussed in relation to gas wells, homogenous, heterogeneous, naturally and hydraulically fractured reservoirs. - Handy, portable reference with thousands of equations and procedures - There is currently no other reference or handbook on the market that focuses only on gas well testing - Offers "one stop shopping" for the drilling and reservoir engineer on gas well testing issues

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Application of Fluid Flow Equations to Gas Systems
• Chapter 3: Well Testing Techniques in Horizontal Gas Wells
• Chapter 4: Deliverability Testing and Well Production Potential Analysis Methods
• Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Drawdown Test Analysis Methods
• Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Pressure Buildup Analysis Methods
• Chapter 7: Predicting Future Deliverability Using Empirical Relationships
• Chapter 8: Application of Type Curve Matching Techniques
• Chapter 9: Pressure Derivative Method of Analysis
• Chapter 10: Massive Hydraulic Fractured Gas Well Behavior Analysis
• Chapter 11: Fractured Gas Well Behavior Analysis Using Bilinear Flow Theory
• Chapter 12: Practical Application of Interference and Pulse Tests
• Chapter 13: Well Testing Terminology in Multilayered Reservoir Systems
• Chapter 14: Pressure Behavior Analysis in Heterogeneous Reservoir Systems
• Chapter 15: Gas Well Testing Field Case Studies
• Chapter 16: Application of Decline Curve Analysis Methods
• Chapter 17: Overall Skin Effects and Impact on Gas Well Performance
• Chapter 18: Selection of Gas Wells for Production Stimulation
• Chapter 19: Design Criteria of Flow and Pressure Transient Tests
• APPENDIX A: Use of SI Units in Gas Well Testing Equations
• APPENDIX B: Correlation Tables and Charts for Dimensionless Functions
• APPENDIX C: Estimation of Formation Characteristics from Drill-Stem Test
• APPENDIX D: Gas Flow Rate Measurement Techniques
• APPENDIX E: Computing Flowing Bottom-Hole Pressure from Wellhead Pressure
• APPENDIX F: Fluid and Rock Property Correlations
• APPENDIX G: Substantial Set of Problems without Solutions
• Nomenclature
• Bibliography
• Index