Reservoir Management: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781119619369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Steve Cannon

Spis treści

Preface xiList of Abbreviations xiii1 Introduction 11.1 The Basics 31.2 Field Appraisal 51.3 Volumetrics 71.4 Drive Mechanism 81.5 Field Development 91.6 Reservoir Simulation 111.7 Field Production 121.8 Reservoir Monitoring and Surveillance 131.9 Improved Hydrocarbon Recovery 141.10 Cessation of Production: Field Abandonment 151.11 Summary 152 Reservoir Management Process 172.1 Field Appraisal 192.2 Field Development 222.3 Field Production 272.4 An Integrated Team Structure for Reservoir Management 302.5 Summary 343 Reservoir Description 353.1 Multi-scale Data 363.2 Reservoir Structure 373.3 Reservoir Framework 443.4 Depositional Environment 463.5 Static Reservoir Properties 473.6 Dynamic Reservoir Properties 533.7 Reservoir Hydrocarbon Fluids 593.8 Summary 634 Building an Integrated Reservoir Model 654.1 Simulation Model Design 674.2 Designing the Modeling Grid 734.3 Facies Modeling 874.4 Property Modeling 974.5 Upscaling 1084.6 Model Analysis and Uncertainty 1094.7 Summary 1105 Performance, Monitoring, and Forecasting 1115.1 Natural Drive Mechanisms 1125.2 Reservoir Monitoring 1205.3 Production System 1225.4 Resource and Reserves Estimation 1265.5 Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS) 1365.6 Summary 1416 Improving Hydrocarbon Recovery 1436.1 Primary Recovery 1456.2 Secondary Recovery 1486.3 Tertiary Oil Recovery 1536.4 Summary 1587 Development Economics 1597.1 Key Economic Criteria 1607.2 Risk and Uncertainty 1657.3 Summary 1718 Tales of the Unexpected 1738.1 Laggan and Tormore, Flett Basin, West of Shetland, UKCS 1738.2 Dación Field, Maturín Basin, Venezuela 1768.3 As-Sarah Field, East Sirt Basin, Libya 1778.4 Ceiba Field, Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea 1788.5 Glenn Pool Field, Cherokee Basin, Oklahoma, USA 1818.6 Schiehallion Field, Faroe-Shetland Basin, West of Shetland 1848.7 North Burbank Field, Cherokee Basin, Oklahoma, USA 1878.8 Nakhla Field, Hameimat Trough, East Sirt Basin, Libya 1928.9 Forties Field, Central North Sea, UKCS 1968.10 Leman Field, Southern North Sea, UKCS 2018.11 Summary 204Appendix 1 Guide to Reservoir Simulation 205A.1 Phases of a Reservoir Simulation Study 206A.2 Data Gathering 209A.3 Upscaling 229A.4 History Matching 243A.5 Summary 251References 253Bibliography 261Index 263

O autorze

Steve Cannon is a geologist by profession, a petrophysicist by inclination and a reservoir modeller by design. He worked as a geologist and petrophysicist in all sectors of the oil and gas industry including government, oil companies, and the service sector. Cannon is an Honorary Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and a Past-President of the London Petrophysical Society.