Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties / Edition 3

by Djebbar Tiab Professor Emeritus, H-Index 26, Erle C. Donaldson Professor

Overview

This new edition includes updated case studies, examples and experiments as well as a new chapter on modeling and simulations. It also includes recent advances in wireline logging interpretation methods, effective media models, inversion of resistivity log measurements, dipole acoustic shear and Stoneley wave techniques, Biot-Gassmann models and MRI.

• Comprehensive but easy to use
• New case studies, exercises and worked examples
• A 30% update over the second edition
• Techniques for conducting competent quick-look evaluations
• Online component with step-by-step calculations, modeling and simulations, and experiments

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123838483
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/18/2011
Pages:	976
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Djebbar Tiab is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as Professor of petroleum engineering from 1977 - 2014. His B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. are in petroleum engineering. He is GM and Owner of UPTEC (United Petroleum Technology LLC), a training and consulting company. He has taught graduate petroleum engineering courses at the African University of Science and Technology since 2008. Before joining the University of Oklahoma, he was a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Djebbar worked in Algerian oil fields for Alcore S.A. as well as for Core Laboratories and Western Atlas as Senior Reservoir Engineer Advisor. Dr. Tiab has taught courses on reservoir engineering, production, well test analysis and reservoir characterization, and authored/co-authored over 260 technical papers on pressure transient analysis, dynamic flow analysis, petrophysics, natural gas engineering, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering, and injection processes.

Erle C. Donaldson began his career as a pilot plant project manager for Signal Oil and Gas Research in Houston, Texas. Later he joined the U.S. Bureau of Mines Petroleum Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as a project manager of subsurface disposal and industrial wastes and reservoir characterization; when the laboratory was transferred to the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Donaldson continued as chief of petroleum reservoir characterization. When the laboratory shifted to private industry for operations, he joined the faculty of the School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma as associate professor. Since retiring from the university in 1990, he has consulted for various oil companies, universities, and U.S. agencies including: the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Navy Ordinance Center, King Fahd Research Institute of Saudi Arabia, and companies in the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Thailand.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Mineralogy 2. Introduction to Petroleum Geology 3. Porosity and Permeability 4. Formation Resistivity and Water Saturation 5. Capillary Pressure 6. Wettability 7. Applications of Darcy’s Law 8. Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 9. Effect of Stress on Reservoir Rock Properties 10. Fluid-Rock Interactions 11. Modeling and Simulations

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Provides users with a resource that will help them understand reservoir performance, including shale

Editorial Reviews

"Presenting concepts, theories, and lab procedures related to porous rocks and gases, hydrocarbon liquids, and aqueous solutions, this third edition reference (the first was published in 1996, and the second in 2003) has been updated and expanded. Two new chapters on reservoir characterization and on basic well-log interpretation offer the basic introductory material intended as a foundation for further study of the topics. Djebbar (petroleum engineering, U. of Oklahoma) and Donaldson (retired after a long career in public, private, and academic spheres) introduce mineralogy and petroleum geology before covering porosity and permeability, formation resistivity and water saturation, capillary pressure, wettability, applications of Darcy’s Law, naturally fractured reservoirs, and the effect of stress on reservoir rock properties, among other topics." —Reference and Research Book News

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