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Multiprobe Pressure Testing and Reservoir Characterization: Pressure Transient, Contamination, Liquid and Gas Pumping Analysis provides much-needed three-dimensional pressure transient simulators for job planning and data interpretation in well logging. Discussions cover fundamental concepts, present fluid sampling, pressure transient and contamination analysis; physical concepts and numerical approaches; and multiprobe model formulations and validations. Other sections cover four-probe algorithms, including conventional, overbalanced, and underbalanced drilling applications. The final section addresses triple-probe algorithms, which includes coupled models for pressure and contamination convergence acceleration.
Notably, a further chapter explains how the multiprobe tool’s focus on characterizing permeability will promote better use of the reservoir as well as assist with energy storage in underground rock, demonstrating how multiprobe tools also facilitate the energy transition from fossil fuels to sustainable geothermal energy.
List of contents
Part I. Fundamental Concepts and Generalizations1. Fluid Sampling, Pressure Transient and Contamination Analysis
2. Physical Concepts and Numerical Approaches
3. Multiprobe Model Formulations and Validations
Part II. Four-Probe Algorithms4. Single-Phase, Four-Probe Flows - Conventional, Overbalanced and Underbalanced Drilling Applications
5. Convective-Diffusion, Four-Probe Model for Pressure and Contamination
Part III. Triple-Probe Algorithms6. Single-Phase, Triple-Probe Flows - Conventional, Overbalanced and Underbalanced Drilling Applications
7. Multiphase Triple-Probe Flows - Coupled Models for Pressure and Contamination
8. Convergence Acceleration, Batch Processing and Inverse Methods for Permeability Prediction
9. Gas Pumping with Multiprobe Tools
10. Axial Multiprobe, Reservoir Characterization, and Geothermal Issues
About the author
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.
