"Well Production Practical Handbook" ed. by Henri Cholet

This Handbook is designed to give a complete, comprehensive overview of field development and well production, providing a wealth of practical information. It is intended as a reference guide for petroleum engineers and oilfield operators, yet also provides readily-available solutions to practical problems. The user will find the guidelines, recommendations, formulas and charts currently in use, as it covers most of the cases encountered in the field.

This handbook will help the oilfield manager to better monitor outsourced work and current operations. The handbook also introduces the new techniques of well production (horizontal and multilateral wells, heavy oil production, etc.). Many examples are given throughout to facilitate the use of the formulas. Also, measurements are frequently expressed in both metric and U.S. units.

Contents
A GENERAL DATA
B CASING AND TUBING
B.1 Introduction
B.2 Geometrical characteristics of casings
B.3 Dimensions and masses of tubings
B.4 Steel grade and tensile requirements of tubings
B.5 Tubing connection
B.6 Makeup of threaded conneetion
B.7 API and buttress tubing thread form
B.8 Elongation
B.9 Tubing movement formulas
B.10 Tubing capacity
B.11 Annular volume between casing and tubing
C COILED RUBING
C.1 Coiled tubing unit equipment design
C.2 Workover safety
C.3 Tube technology and capabilities
C.4 Sand and solids washing
C.5 Unloading welts with lighter fluids
C.6 Coiled tubing assisted logging and perforating
C.7 Cementing
C.8 Fishing
C.9 Velocity strings
C.10 Production applications
D Advanced·composite spoolable tubing 81 mPACKERS
D.1 Introduction
D.2 Tubing-to-packer connections
D.3 Different types of packers
D.4 Tubing response characteristics
D.5 Packer calculations
D.6 IS0 14310
E PRESSURE LOSSES
E.1 Types of flow
E.2 Pressure Lasses in Casing and Tubing
E.3 Pressure Losses in Annular
F FUNDAMENTALS OF PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS
F.1 Characterization oil reservoir rocks
F.2 Oil properties
F.3 Water properties
F.4 Gas properties
G WELL PRODUCTIVITY
G.1 Oil flow around wells
G.2 Weil test analysis method
G.3 IPR. Productivity index of an oil weil producing under the bubble point; Vogel's method
H FORMATION DAMAGE CONTROL
H.1 Formation damage prevention
H.2 Remedial cleanup
H.3 Recommended practice for formation damage testing
I SAND CONTROL
I.1 Sand formation properties and geology
I.2 Gravel packing
I.3 Screen installation and gravel-pack procedure guidelines
I.4 Guidelines far choosing a sand-control method
I.5 Gravel pack in horizontal wells. Guidelines for field operations
J STIMULATION
J.1 Introduction
J.2 Hydraulic fracturing
J.3 Matrix acidizing
J.4 Acid fracturing
J.S Frac packs
J.6 Perfarating requirements for fracture stimulations
K HORIZONTAL AND MULTILATERAL WEllS
K.1 Horizontal weil productivity
K.2 Pressure drops in horizontal wells
K.3 Flow patterns in horizontal wells
K.4 Multilateral wells
L WATER MANAGEMENT
L.1 Basic water-oil flow properties of reservoir rock
L.2 Waterflooding
L.3 Water coning
L.4 Water control in production wells
L.5 Downhole oil water separation (DHOWS)
L.6 Key messages
M HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION. ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
M.1 Heavy oil properties
M.2 Heavy oil production problems
M.3 Cold production technology
M.4 General c1assification of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes
M.5 Steam assisted gravity drainage and vapor extraction processes
N ARTIFICIA LIFT
N.1 Common methods
N.2 Production criteria
N.3 GOR calculation at the pump inlet
O BEAM PUMPING AND OTHER RECIPROCATING ROD
O PUMPS
O.1 General considerations
O.2 Subsurface sucker-rod pumps
O.3 Sucker rods
O.4 Pumping units
O.5 Long stroke pumping unit
O.6 Jack pumping unit
P GAS LIFT
P.1 Types of gas lift
P.2 Design uf a continuous-flow gas-lift systom
P.3 Design of intermittent flow installations
P.3 Design of the compressor system
P.5 Annex. Basics of physical gas applied to gas lift
Q ELECTRIC SUBMERSIBLE PUMP
Q.1 Hydraulic fundamentals
Q.2 Electrical fundamentals
Q.3 Description of submersible installations
Q.4 Pump selection
Q.5 Procedure for calculating motor starting conditions for E5P installations
R PROGRESSING CAVITY PUMPS
R.1 General description
R.2 PCP characteristics
R.3 Selection of a PCP
R.4 Driving from surface of PCP
R.5 The insert pump
R.6 The electrical submersible PCP
S HYDRAULIC PUMPING
S.1 General introduction
S.2 Piston-type hydraulic pumping
S.3 Jet pumps
T MULTIPHASE PUMPING AND METERING
T.1 Multiphase pumping
T.2 Flow metering general equation
T.3 Flow metering practical data
T.4 Flow regimes
T.5 Classification of multiphase meters
T.6 Performance specification
T.7 Measurement techniques of multiphase meters
U DEPOSIT TREATMEN
U.1 Asphaltene deposition
U.2 Hydrates
U.3 Paraffins (waxes)
U.4 Scales
V WElL SERVICING
V.1 Weil control operation
V.2 Wireline operation
V.3 Subsurface safety valves
V.4 Snubbing
V.5 Orillstem testing (OST)
V.6 Workover planning
W CASED-HOLE LOGGING AND IMAGING
W.1 Formation evaluation
W.2 Cement evaluation
W.3 Downhole casing inspection
W.4 Production logging
W.5 Other cased-hole services
W.6 Imaging
W.7 Evolution of wireline service
X FINANCIAL FüRMULAS FOR INVESTMENT DECISIONS
X.1 Basic formulas
X.2 Present value and the opportunity cost of capital
X.3 Present value applied to oilfield production
X.4 Making wise investment decisions. Net present value and alternative investment criteria
Tables
Y LIST OF STANDARDS FOR PETROLEUM PRODUCTION
Y.1 Introduction
Y.2 Tubular goods
Y.3 Valves and wellhead equipment
Y.4 Wire rope
Y.5 Production equipment
Y.6 Lease production vessels
Y.7 Offshore safety and anti-pollution equipment
Y.8 Plastic pipe
Y.9 Subsea production
Y.10 Common production
GLOSSARY
INDEX