TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
1. Concepts in Well Performance Engineering
1.1 Introduction to Production Systems
1.2 Phase Behavior of Reservoir and Surface Fluids
1.3 Reservoir Inflow Performance
1.4 Tubing Performance and Gradient Curves
1.5 Natural Flow
1.6 Wellhead, Choke, and Flowline Performance
1.7 Extension of the Natural Flow Concept
1.8 Summary
2. Reservoir Aspects of Well Performance
2.1 Flow Toward the Wellbore
2.2 Steady-State Radial Flow for Ideal Liquids
2.3 Skin Effect
2.4 Rate-Pressure Relations for Gas Wells
2.5 Rate-Pressure Relation for Saturated Oil Wells
2.6 Pseudosteady-State Production: Stabilized Flow
2.7 Transient Production
2.8 Summary
3. Restricted Flow into the Wellbore
3.1 Skin Factor and Related Concepts
3.2 Near-Wellbore Altered Permeability
3.3 Partial Penetration and Limited Entry
3.4 High-Velocity Flow
3.5 Perforation Penetration, Geometry, and Density
3.6 Sand Control Considerations
3.7 Condensate Blockage Skin Factor
3.8 Composite Skin Factor
3.9 Net Pay Zone, Heterogeneities, and Flow Barriers
3.10 Summary
4. Rate Decline Analysis
4.1 Transient Rate Decline
4.2 Depletion Rate Decline
4.3 Well Stimulation
4.4 Special Methods in Decline Type Curve Analysis
4.5 Field Production Strategy: Composite Well Performance
4.6 Summary
5. Fundamentals of Artificial Lift
5.1 Methods of Artificial Lift
5.2 Oilwell Pumping
5.3 Gas Lift
5.4 Selection of an Artificial-Lift Method
5.5 Summary
Appendix A Gradient Curves
Appendix B Type Curves and Rate Decline Program
Appendix C Unit Systems in Petroleum Engineering