Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach - Hardcover

Guo, Boyun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750682701 ISBN 13: 9780750682701

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

Boyun Guo is a Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Petroleum Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS) of the Energy Institute of Louisiana (EIL). He has 40 years of work experience in the oil and gas industry and academia. He is the principal author of 11 books and author/coauthor of over 150 research papers. He holds a BS degree in Engineering Science from Daqing Petroleum Institute in China, MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750682701
• ISBN 13: 9780750682701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312