Preface
Introduction
Nomenclature
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Milestones for the Engineering Approach
1.3 Importance of the Engineering and Mathematical Approaches
1.4 Summary
1.5 Exercises
2 Single-Phase Fluid Flow Equations in Multidimensional Domain
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Properties of Single-Phase Fluid
2.3 Properties of Porous Media
2.4 Reservoir Discretization
2.5 Basic Engineering Concepts
2.6 Multidimensional Flow in Cartesian Coordinates
2.7 Multidimensional Flow in Radial-Cylindrical Coordinates
2.8 Summary
2.9 Exercises
3 Flow Equations Using CVFD Terminology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Flow Equations Using CVFD Terminology
3.3 Flow Equations in Radial-Cylindrical Coordinates Using CVFD
Terminology
3.4 Flow Equations Using CVFD Terminology in any Block Ordering
Scheme
3.5 Summary
3.6 Exercises
4 Simulation with a Block-Centered Grid
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Reservoir Discretization
4.3 Flow Equation for Boundary Gridblocks
4.4 Treatment of Boundary Conditions
4.5 Calculation of Transmissibilities
4.6 Symmetry and Its Use in Solving Practical Problems
4.7 Summary
4.8 Exercises
5 Simulation with a Point-Distributed Grid
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Reservoir Discretization
5.3 Flow Equation for Boundary Gridpoints
5.4 Treatment of Boundary Conditions
5.5 Calculation of Transmissibilities
5.6 Symmetry and Its Use in Solving Practical Problems
5.7 Summary
5.8 Exercises
6 Well Representation in Simulators
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Single-Block Wells
6.3 Multiblock Wells
6.4 Practical Considerations Dealing with Modeling Well Operating
Conditions
6.5 Summary
6.6 Exercises
7 Single-Phase Flow Equation for Various Fluids
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Pressure Dependence of Fluid and Rock Properties
7.3 General Single-Phase Flow Equation in Multi Dimensions
7.4 Summary
7.5 Exercises
8 Linearization of Flow Equations
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Nonlinear Terms in Flow Equations
8.3 Nonlinearity of Flow Equations For Various Fluids
8.4 Linearization of Nonlinear Terms
8.5 Linearized Flow Equations in Time
8.6 Summary
8.7 Exercises
9 Methods of Solution of Linear Equations
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Direct Solution Methods
9.3 Iterative Solution Methods
9.4 Summary
9.5 Exercises
10 Introduction to Modeling Multiphase Flow in Petroleum
Reservoirs
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Reservoir Engineering Concepts in Multiphase Flow
10.3 Multiphase Flow Models
10.4 Solution of Multiphase Flow Equations
10.5 Material Balance Checks
10.6 Advancing Solution in Time
10.7 Summary
10.8 Exercises
A User’s Manual for Single-Phase Simulator
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Data File Preparation
A.3 Description of Variables Used in Preparing a Data File
A.4 Instructions to Run Simulator
A.5 Limitations Imposed on the Compiled Version
A.6 Example of a Prepared Data File
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Jamal H. Abou-Kassem is professor of petroleum engineering at the
UAE University in the United Arab Emirates, where he has taught
since 1993. Before joining the UAE University,he was associate
professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at The
Pennsylvania State University (1985-1992), where he was a tenured
faculty member, supervised to completion two MS and two PhD
students, and served on 10 thesis advisory committees. He held
posts with the Research Institute of KFUPM (1981-1984) in Saudi
Arabia and Pan Canadian Petroleum Ltd. (1978-1979) in Canada. He
received a BE (Cairo U., Egypt, 1970) and MS (U. of Alberta,
Canada, 1975) degree in petroleum engineering, and earned a PhD
degree in reservoir simulation from the U. of Calgary (Canada) in
1981. He is a co-author of
two textbooks, author/co-author of 32 technical articles in first
class journals, and another 12 technical articles in symposium
proceedings. His areas of expertise cover reservoir simulation,
thermal and polymer EOR methods, fluid flow through porous media,
and fundamental properties of natural gas. He has attended and
presented numerous technical papers in international, regional, and
local petroleum engineering symposiums. He has 36 years of
experience in academia, research organizations, and petroleum
industry. He is a member of SPE. Dr. S.M. Farouq Ali is
Distinguished Professor of petroleum engineering at the University
of Houston. He has over 40 years of experience in industry and
academia, having served as a professor at Pennsylvania State
University, the University of Alberta and the University of Regina.
Considered one of the world’s leading experts in reservoir
engineering, oil recovery and simulation, Farouq Ali advises oil
companies and various governments on oil policy and production
strategies. He has authored more than 500 papers, conducted more
than 200 petroleum reservoir studies and designed over 30 major oil
fields projects. Farouq Ali earned his master’s and doctoral
degrees in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Penn State
University. As a graduate student he conducted pioneering research
on micellar-polymer flooding, a process in which a micelle solution
is pumped into a reservoir to recover oil. The technique has since
become the industry standard for enhanced oil recovery. He is also
credited with some of the earliest experimental work on steam
flooding, a method of injecting steam to extract heavy crude oil
from an oil reservoir. Today steam injection is one of the primary
enhanced oil recovery techniques in use. Farouq Ali has been
honored with awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Association of
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta and the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
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