Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Practice

Preface

In writing any book, there is always a conflict in deciding the topics to include and the ones to leave out. Of course there is the desire to present as many topics as possible, but that is not practical due to limitations on the physical size of the book. The scope and organization of this book were conceived to cover petroleum reservoir engineering topics which will provide strong fundamentals to an engineer-in-training in a classroom setting, and at the same time be useful as a handbook to a practicing engineer.

Chapters 1 to 5 are devoted to discussing the sources and applications of basic rock and fluid properties data which are the bedrock for all petroleum reservoir engineering calculations. In Chapter 1, the porosity of reservoir ...