文档介绍：· ISBN: 0750682701
· Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
· Pub. Date: February 2007
Guo, Boyun / Petroleum Production Engineering, puter-Assisted Approach Guo-prelims Final Proof page ix 10:39am
Preface
The advances in the puting technology in the students. Chapter 15 describes how to identify well prob-
last decade have revolutionized the petroleum industry. lems. Chapter 16 deals with designing acidizing jobs.
Using the puter technologies, today’s petro- Chapter 17 provides a guideline to hydraulic fracturing
leum production engineers work much more efficiently and job evaluation techniques. Chapter 18 presents some
than ever before in their daily activities, including analyz- relevant information on production optimisation tech-
ing and optimizing the performance of their existing pro- niques.
duction systems and designing new production systems. Since the substance of this book is virtually boundless in
During several years of teaching the production engineer- depth, knowing what to omit was the greatest difficulty
ing courses in academia and in the industry, the authors with its editing. The authors believe that it requires many
realized that there is a need for a textbook that reflects the books to describe the foundation of knowledge in petro-
current practice of what the modern production engineers leum production engineering. To counter any deficiency
do. Currently available books fail to provide adequate that might arise from the limitations of space, the book
information about how the engineering principles are ap- provides a reference list of books and papers at the end of
plied to solving petroleum production engineering prob- each chapter so that readers should experience little diffi-
lems with puter technologies. These facts culty in pursuing each topic beyond the presented scope.
motivated the authors to write this new book. Regarding presentation, this book focuses on presen-
This book is written primar