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Petroleum

Part I Production

Engineering

Fundamentals

The upstream of the petroleum industry involves itself in the business of oil and gas exploration and
production (E & P) activities. While the exploration activities find oil and gas reserves, the
production activities deliver oil and gas to the downstream of the industry (i.e., processing plants).
The petroleum production is definitely the heart of the petroleum industry.
Petroleum production engineering is that part of petroleum engineering that attempts to maxi-
mize oil and gas production in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this objective, production
engineers need to have a thorough understanding of the petroleum production systems with
which they work. To perform their job correctly, production engineers should have solid back-
ground and sound knowledge about the properties of fluids they produce and working principles of
all the major components of producing wells and surface facilities. This part of the book provides
graduating production engineers with fundamentals of petroleum production engineering.
Materials are presented in the following eight chapters:

Chapter 1 Petroleum Production System 1/3
Chapter 2 Properties of Oil and Natural Gas 2/19
Chapter 3 Reservoir Deliverability 3/29
Chapter 4 Wellbore Performance 4/45
Chapter 5 Choke Performance 5/59
Chapter 6 Well Deliverability 6/69
Chapter 7 Forecast of Well Production 7/87
Chapter 8 Production Decline Analysis 8/97