Gas Well Testing Handbook

The single source for information on natural gas well testing

Amanat Chaudhry (Author)

9780750677059

Hardback, published 24 September 2003

864 pages
24.4 x 17.5 x 4.3 cm, 1.33 kg

Gas Well Testing Handbook deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity. A highly practical edition, this book is written for graduate students, reservoir/simulation engineers, technologists, geologists, geophysicists, and technical managers. The author draws from his extensive experience in reservoir/simulation, well testing, PVT analysis basics, and production operations from around the world and provides the reader with a thorough understanding of gas well test analysis basics. The main emphasis is on practical field application, where over 100 field examples are resented to illustrate basic methods for analysis. Simple solutions to the diffusivity equation are discussed and their physical meanings examined. Each chapter focuses in how to use the information gained in well testing to make engineering and economic decisions, and an overview of the current research models and their equations are discussed in relation to gas wells, homogenous, heterogeneous, naturally and hydraulically fractured reservoirs.

Application of Fluid Flow Equations to Gas SystemsWell Testing Techniques in Horizontal Gas WellsDeliverability Testing and Well Production Potential Analysis MethodsFundamentals of Draw Down Test Analysis MethodsFundamentals of Pressure Building Analysis MethodsPredicting Future Deliverability Using Empirical RelationshipsApplication of Type Curve Matching TechniquesPressure Derivative Methods of AnalysisMassive Hydraulic Fractured Well Behavior AnalysisFractured Well Behavior Analysis Using Bilinear Flow TheoryPractical Application of Interference and Pulse TestsWell Testing Terminology in Multilayered Resevoir SystemsPressure Behavior Analysis in Heterogeneous Resevoir SystemsGas Well Testing - Field Case Studies

Subject Areas: Mining technology & engineering [TTU], Gas technology [THFG], Geological surface processes [geomorphology RBGD]