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Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis
Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis
Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis
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Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis

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Traditional well logging methods, such as  resistivity, acoustic, nuclear and NMR, provide indirect information related to fluid and formation properties.  The “formation tester,” offered in wireline and MWD/LWD operations, is different.  It collects actual downhole fluid samples for surface analysis, and through pressure transient analysis, provides direct measurements for pore pressure, mobility, permeability and anisotropy.  These are vital to real-time drilling safety, geosteering, hydraulic fracturing and economic analysis.

Methods for formation testing analysis, while commercially important and accounting for a substantial part of service company profits, however, are shrouded in secrecy.  Unfortunately, many are poorly constructed, and because details are not available, industry researchers are not able to improve upon them.  This new book explains conventional models and develops new powerful algorithms for “double-drawdown” and “advanced phase delay” early-time analysis - importantly, it is now possible to predict both horizontal and vertical permeabilities, plus pore pressure, within seconds of well logging in very low mobility reservoirs.  Other subjects including inertial Forchheimer effects in contamination modeling and time-dependent flowline volumes are also developed.  All of the methods are explained in complete detail.  Equations are offered for users to incorporate in their own models, but convenient, easy-to-use software is available for those needing immediate answers.

The leading author is a well known petrophysicist, with hands-on experience at Schlumberger, Halliburton, BP Exploration and other companies.  His work is used commercially at major oil service companies, and important extensions to his formation testing models have been supported by prestigious grants from the United States Department of Energy.  His new collaboration with China National Offshore Oil Corporation  marks an important turning point, where advanced simulation models and hardware are evolving side-by-side to define a new generation of formation testing logging instruments.  The present book provides more than formulations and solutions: it offers a close look at formation tester development “behind the scenes,” as the China National Offshore Oil Corporation opens up its research, engineering and manufacturing facilities through a collection of interesting photographs to show how formation testing tools are developed from start to finish.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherWiley
Release dateNov 20, 2015
ISBN9781118925959
Formation Testing: Low Mobility Pressure Transient Analysis
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Wilson C Chin

Wilson C. Chin, PhD MIT, MSc Caltech, fluid mechanics, physics, applied math and numerical methods, has published twenty-five research books with John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier; more than 100 papers and 50 patents; and won 5 awards with the US Dept of Energy. He founded Stratamagnetic Software, LLC in 1997, an international company engaged in multiple scientific disciplines.

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