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Part IV Production

Enhancement

Good production engineers never stop looking for opportunities to improve the performance of
their production systems. Performance enhancement ideas are from careful examinations and
thorough analyses of production data to find the controlling factors affecting the performance.
Part IV of this book presents procedures taken in the petroleum industry for identifying well
problems and means of solving the problems. Materials are presented in the following four
chapters.
Chapter 15: Well Problem Identification
Chapter 16: Matrix Acidizing
Chapter 17: Hydraulic Fracturing
Chapter 18: Production Optimization