Surface Well Testing - A Practical Guide

Practical Surface Well Testing instructs readers on the fundamentals and techniques of surface well testing operations and data acquisition to ensure proper operational procedures and standards.

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2. Well Testing Preparations. 3. Time. 4. Safety. 5. Well Test Equipment. 6. Well Test Separators. 7. Hazards. 8. Basic Sediment and Water (BS&W). 9. Liquid Gravity Measurements. 10. Gas Measurements. 11. Flow Data. 12. Data Instrumentation. 13. Reporting, Data, and Security.

About the author

Paul Budworth has been working with oilfields for many decades, including as an Operations Training Instructor at Gulf Drilling and Maintenance Co., Kuwait, and Well Test and QA Coordinator. He served as Technical Director at Fardux, a major UK-based oil and gas data acquisition organization, for 24 years.
Abdullah Tanira earned an MSc in petroleum production engineering at Robert Gordon University. He has been involved in petroleum engineering consultancy with projects in secondary and enhanced oil recovery, onshore concessions open for exploration and production investments, oil and gas production services, and waste management.

Summary

Practical Surface Well Testing instructs readers on the fundamentals and techniques of surface well testing operations and data acquisition to ensure proper operational procedures and standards.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Budworth, Paul Tanira Budworth, Abdullah Tanira
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032623641
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262364-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels, Petroleum technology