Advanced Production Decline Analysis and Application

Hedong Sun, PhD, SPE member, born in 1973, professional senior engineer, earned his PhD degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2004. Since 2004, he has been a Research Engineer in Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development of Petrochina. He has about 25 years of reservoir engineering experience with a focus on well test analysis and production data analysis. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and SPE conferences. He is an author of 4 books published by Elsevier, including Advanced Production Decline Analysis and Application, Well Test Analysis for Multilayered Reservoir with Formation Crossflow, Dynamic Well Testing in Petroleum Exploration and Development, among others.

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Advanced Production Decline Analysis
Chapter 2 ARPS Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 3 Fetkovich Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 4 Blasingame Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 5 Agarwal-Gardner Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 6 NPI Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 7 Transient Decline Curves Analysis
Chapter 8 Decline Curves Analysis OF Long Linear Flow
Chapter 9 Dynamic Material Balance Method
Chapter 10 Decline Curves Analysis OF Horizontal Wells
Chapter 11 Decline Curves OF Complex Reservoir
Chapter 12 Methodology and Cases for Decline Curves Analysis
Appendix 1 Nomenclature (With China Statutory Units CSU)
Appendix 2 Commonly Used Units in Different Unit Systems
Appendix 3 Unit Conversions from China Statutory Units to Other Unit Systems
Appendix 4 Formulaw Commonly Used in the Main Text (With China Statutory Units CSU)
Appendix 5 Late Time Solution for a Well in a Two-Region Composite Reservior with a Closed Outer Boundary
Appendix 6 Late Time Solution for a Well in a Two-Layer Commingled Reservior with a Closed Outer Boundary 
References
Index