Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach

by Boyun Guo PhD, William C. Lyons Ph.D. P.E., Ali Ghalambor PhD

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN: 0750682701

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Book Description

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems. Broken into four parts, this book covers the full scope of petroleum production engineering, featuring stepwise calculations and computer-based spreadsheet programs. Part one contains discussions of petroleum production engineering fundamentals, empirical models for production decline analysis, and the performance of oil and natural gas wells.

Part two presents principles of designing and selecting the main components of petroleum production systems including: well tubing, separation and dehydration systems, liquid pumps, gas compressors, and pipelines for oil and gas transportation.

Part three introduces artificial lift methods, including sucker rod pumping systems, gas lift technology, electrical submersible pumps and other artificial lift systems.

Part four is comprised of production enhancement techniques including, identifying well problems, designing acidizing jobs, guidelines to hydraulic fracturing and job evaluation techniques, and production optimization techniques.

• Provides complete coverage of the latest techniques used for designing and analyzing petroleum production systems
• Increases efficiency and addresses common problems by utilizing the computer-based solutions discussed within the book
• Presents principles of designing and selecting the main components of petroleum production systems

About the Author

A professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico.

Oil and Gas Engineer at Innovative Petrotech Solutions, Inc.

Customer Reviews

I give the book five stars for being an excellent reference tool. What sets the book apart is that the information is practical. The authors did a very nice job in including only relevant information concerning applied production design concepts and equations. They also did well in referencing the material.

I will also compliment the book on being well organized and packing in a wealth of information.

A huge bonus is that the book comes with excel files that contain the solutions to the designs/calculations from the book - about time someone did this.

I think what makes this book excellent for the engineer in the field, is the fact that you have the equations, derivations and methods explained in a very friendly manner, and the examples are included in the excel programs which make it easy to follow it and change the data to adapt the problems to different situations. I totally recommend the book. One recommendation would be to include more artificial lift methods in a new edition.