Pressure Transient Analysis. Pressure Derivative

Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts and Conventional Semilog Analysis
2. Pressure Derivative: Basic Model and Special Cases
3. Well Near Single and Multi-boundary Systems
4. Hydraulically Fractured Wells
5. Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
6. Interpretation of Interference and Pulse Tests
7. Gas Well Test Analysis
8. Multiphase Flow
9. Injectivity and Falloff Tests
10. Rate-transient and Multi-rate Tests
11. Partially Penetrated/perforated Vertical and Slanted Wells
12. Horizontal Wells in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs

Authors

Djebbar Tiab Consultant and Senior Professor of Petroleum Engineering, University of Oklahoma. Djebbar Tiab is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as Professor of petroleum engineering from 1977 - 2014. His B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. are in petroleum engineering. He is GM and Owner of UPTEC (United Petroleum Technology LLC), a training and consulting company. He has taught graduate petroleum engineering courses at the African University of Science and Technology since 2008. Before joining the University of Oklahoma, he was a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Djebbar worked in Algerian oil fields for Alcore S.A. as well as for Core Laboratories and Western Atlas as Senior Reservoir Engineer Advisor. Dr. Tiab has taught courses on reservoir engineering, production, well test analysis and reservoir characterization, and authored/co-authored over 260 technical papers on pressure transient analysis, dynamic flow analysis, petrophysics, natural gas engineering, reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering, and injection processes.