Reservoir engineers, drilling engineers, geologists, and production engineers will find this well-researched book most helpful. The author draws from his extensive experience in horizontal operations around the world and provides you with a thorough understanding of horizontal well technology basics. Horizontal Well Technology presents the history of the technology, recent developments, and basic drilling concepts. Factors influencing horizontal well performance, such as naturally fractured reservoirs, inaccessible locations, drilling attic oil, drilling through faults and relief wells are also discussed. The author includes field histories and analyses of productivity and performance.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Overview of horizontal well technology
2 Reservoir engineering concepts
3 Steady state solutions
4 Influence of well eccentricity
5 Comparison of horizontal and fractured vertical wells
6 Transient well testing
7 Pseudo steady state flow
8 Water and gas coning in vertical and horizontal wells
9 Horizontal wells in gas reservoirs
10 Pressure drop through a horizontal well
Appendix A Petroleum fluid properties
Appendix B Gas compressibility factor
Appendix C Conversion factors
Appendix D The calculation of pseudo skin factors
Appendix E Recovery factors
Appendix F Glossary
Index
Equation index
