Petroleum Reservoir Rock and Fluid Properties

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CRC Press, Feb 21, 2013 - Science - 544 pages
Accessible to anyone with an engineering background, this text reveals the importance of understanding rock and fluid properties in petroleum engineering. Along with new practice problems and detailed solved examples, this edition covers Stone II three-phase relative permeability model, unconventional oil and gas resources, low salinity water injection, saturated reservoirs and production trends of five reservoir fluids, impact of mud filtrate invasion and heavy organics on samples, and flow assurance problems due to solid components of petroleum. It also offers better plots for determining oil and water Corey exponents from relative permeability data.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Preamble to Petroleum Reservoir Rock Properties
11
Chapter 3 Porosity
19
Chapter 4 Absolute Permeability
37
Chapter 5 Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Reservoir Rocks
69
Chapter 6 Fluid Saturation
93
Chapter 7 Interfacial Tension and Wettability
125
Chapter 8 Capillary Pressure
163
Chapter 11 Introduction to Phase Behavior
285
Chapter 12 Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
309
Chapter 13 Sampling of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
327
Chapter 14 Compositional Analysis of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
339
Chapter 15 PVT Analysis and Reservoir Fluid Properties
363
Chapter 16 VaporLiquid Equilibria
439
Chapter 17 Properties of Formation Waters
489
Author Index
503

Chapter 9 Relative Permeability
205
Chapter 10 Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Fluids
269

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About the author (2013)

Abhijit Y. Dandekar is a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. An active member of SPE, Dr. Dandekar is the author or coauthor of over 30 peer-reviewed technical papers, over 45 technical conference papers, and numerous research reports in areas as diverse as special core analysis, PVT and phase behavior, gas-to-liquids, gas hydrates, viscous oils, wettability alteration, and CO2 sequestration. He received his PhD in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University.