Petroleum Fluids and Production Methods
An Illustrated Reference for the Practicing Engineer on Maps, Instrumentation, and Plant PerformanceBy Callum Braithwaite
Length14h 56m
About this audiobook
Production engineering is a chain of measurements, and a weak link anywhere shows up as a bad forecast.
This illustrated reference follows that chain from the reservoir fluid to the plant outlet. It is written for the practicing engineer who needs to move between a phase envelope, a laboratory PVT report, a structure contour map, a pressure buildup test and a nodal analysis without losing the thread that connects them. Each chapter is built around the measurements and calculations that decide whether a well, a lift system or a facility performs as predicted.
You will classify a reservoir fluid from its phase envelope, read the laboratory report that produces formation volume factor and solution gas-oil ratio, and use rock properties and relative permeability to explain what a well will actually give up. Mapping chapters turn raw logs into structure contours, isopachs and correlated cross sections. Flow chapters build radial Darcy performance, skin and inflow curves, then interpret a pressure buildup test. Lift chapters compare rod pumps, electrical submersible pumps and gas lift through nodal analysis. Facility chapters cover separation, treating, metering and the instrumentation that reveals plant performance, before flow assurance and enhanced recovery.
What you will learn:
• Classify reservoir fluids and interpret phase behaviour from phase envelopes and laboratory data
• Read PVT reports and apply correlations for formation volume factor, solution gas-oil ratio and viscosity
• Use porosity, permeability and saturation to describe storage and flow capacity
• Apply capillary pressure, wettability and relative permeability to production behaviour
• Convert well logs into structure contours, isopachs and correlated cross sections
• Estimate volumetrics and material balance and identify drive mechanisms
• Build radial Darcy inflow performance, quantify skin and interpret pressure transient tests
• Compare rod pump, electrical submersible pump and gas lift performance through nodal analysis
• Evaluate separation, treating, metering and plant instrumentation, then address flow assurance and enhanced recovery
For practicing petroleum engineers, production technologists and students who want a single illustrated reference that connects reservoir fluids, maps, instrumentation and plant performance across the production chain.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length14 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Petroleum Fluids and Production Methods
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: Reservoir Fluids and Phase Behaviour
71.1 Hydrocarbon Systems and the Phase Envelope
81.2 Dry Gas, Wet Gas and the Producing Signature
91.3 Retrograde Condensate Behaviour
101.4 Volatile Oil and Black Oil
111.5 Fluid Classification in the Field and Its Consequences
12Chapter 2: PVT Properties, Correlations and Laboratory Tests
132.1 Solution Gas-Oil Ratio and Formation Volume Factors
142.2 Constant-Composition and Differential-Liberation Tests
152.3 Gas Deviation Factor and Gas Properties
162.4 Viscosity, Density and Interfacial Tension
172.5 Choosing and Auditing Correlations
18Chapter 3: Rock Properties: Porosity, Permeability and Saturation
193.1 Porosity and Pore Types
203.2 Absolute and Effective Permeability
213.3 Core Analysis and Net-to-Gross
223.4 Fluid Saturations and Their Measurement
233.5 Wettability and Its Effect on Measured Properties
24Chapter 4: Capillary Pressure, Wettability and Relative Permeability
254.1 Capillary Pressure and Its Measurement
264.2 Drainage, Imbibition and Hysteresis
274.3 Transition Zones and the Free Water Level
284.4 Relative Permeability Curves and End Points
294.5 Three-Phase Relative Permeability and Its Limits
30Chapter 5: Well Logs, Cross Sections and Petroleum Maps
315.1 Spontaneous Potential and Gamma Ray Logs
325.2 Resistivity, Density and Neutron Logs
335.3 Correlation and Cross Sections
345.4 Structure Contour Maps
355.5 Isopach Maps and Gross Rock Volume
36Chapter 6: Volumetrics, Material Balance and Drive Mechanisms
376.1 Volumetric Equation and Recovery Factors
386.2 Material Balance for Oil Reservoirs
396.3 Drive Mechanisms and Their Signatures
406.4 Material Balance for Gas and Condensate Reservoirs
416.5 Uncertainty in Reserves Estimates
42Chapter 7: Darcy Flow, Skin and Inflow Performance
437.1 Radial Flow and Darcy’s Law in the Reservoir
447.2 Pseudo-Steady State and Boundary-Dominated Flow
457.3 Skin Factor and Flow Efficiency
467.4 Productivity Index and Inflow Performance Curves
477.5 Horizontal and Fractured Well Inflow
48Chapter 8: Pressure Transient Testing and Interpretation
498.1 Test Design and the Diffusivity Equation
508.2 Semilog Buildup Analysis
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