Petroleum Fluid Phase Behavior (characterization, Processes, And Applications)

This book deals with complex fluid characterization of oil and gas reservoirs, emphasizing the importance of PVT parameters for practical application in reservoir simulation and management.

This book deals with complex fluid characterization of oil and gas reservoirs, emphasizing the importance of PVT parameters for practical application in reservoir simulation and management. It covers modeling of PVT parameters, QA/QC of PVT data from lab studies, EOS modeling, PVT simulation and compositional grading and variation. It describes generation of data for reservoir engineering calculations in view of limited and unreliable data and techniques like downhole fluid analysis and photophysics of reservoir fluids. It discusses behavior of unconventional reservoirs, particularly for difficult resources like shale gas, shale oil, coalbed methane, reservoirs, heavy and extra heavy oils.

1. Reservoir Fluid Properties 2. Fluid Characterization and Recovery Mechanism 3. Advanced Fluid Sampling and Characterization of Complex Hydrocarbon Systems 4. Planning of Laboratory Studies 5. Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids in the Dense Phase or Supercritical Region 6. Special Characterization for EOR Processes 7. Compositional, Fluid Property, and Phase Behavior Characteristics of Unconventional Reservoir Fluids 8. Porous Media Effects on Phase Behavior of (Unconventional) Petroleum Reservoir Fluids 9. Compositional and Phase Behavior Effects in Conventional and Exotic Heavy Oil EOR Processes 10. Flow Assurance in EOR Design and Operation 11. EOS and PVT Simulations 12. Empirical Relations for Estimating Fluid Properties

"Overall, this is a well written and well-presented book that is worthy of inclusion on a personal bookshelf or on a library bookshelf."

~Dr. James G. Speight, CD&W Inc., USA

Dr. Raj Tewari is Custodian Reservoir Engineering and Group Technical Authority at Petronas, Malaysia. During his more than three decades long career in the oil and gas industry, he has worked in various companies, namely ONGC, GNPOC, Sudapet and Petronas, as a practicing reservoir engineer. He started his career in ONGC’s Institute of Reservoir Studies in the 1980s where he was involved with reservoir characterization and numerical simulation, oil and gas field development planning and EOR laboratory studies. After 12 years he moved to Mumbai as Manager Reservoir and contributed to the redevelopment of the giant carbonate field, Mumbai High. His
responsibilities included water flood management and identification of IOR/EOR initiatives for the field. He moved to North Africa in early 2000 to lead the Reservoir Engineering at GNPOC, a joint venture company. During this period he was responsible for field development planning (FDP) studies and reservoir management and surveillance of GNPOC fields, producing at plateau rate of 300 kbopd. Dr. Tewari joined Petronas in 2007 and since then has been actively involved in redevelopment studies of number of major fields incorporating EOR. In 2010-2011 he joined the national oil company of Sudan as Custodian PE and was involved with cyclic steam stimulation and steam flood EOR projects. He has extensive experience in light and viscous oil fields development and management, reservoir characterization and simulation, EOR and reservoir management. He is actively involved in EOR studies and R&D projects in Petronas. He has conducted training courses on Fluid Characterization, Rock Properties, Advance EOR and Reservoir Engineering. He was visiting professor to Khartoum University and also teaches in UTP on specialized topics. Dr. Tewari holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Banaras Hind