Types of Hydrocarbon Recoveries.
#Oil
#Petroleum
#Hydrocarbon
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RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY
#Petroleum engineering is a field of engineering concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas.#Exploration and #production are deemed to fall within the #upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. Exploration, by earth scientists, and petroleum #engineering are the oil and gas industry's two main subsurface disciplines, which focus on maximizing economic #recovery of hydrocarbons from subsurface reservoirs. Petroleum #geology and geophysics focus on provision of a static description of the #hydrocarbon reservoir rock, while petroleum engineering focuses on estimation of the recoverable volume of this #resource using a detailed #understanding of the #physical behavior of #oil, water and #gas within porous rock at very high #pressure.
Petroleum Engineering, like most forms of engineering, requires a strong foundation in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.[23] Other fields pertinent to petroleum engineering include geology, formation evaluation, fluid flow in porous media, well drilling technology, economics, geostatistics, etc.
Petroleum Geostatistics Edit
Geostatistics as applied to petroleum engineering uses statistical analysis to characterize reservoirs and create flow simulations that quantify uncertainties of the location of oil and gas.
Petroleum Geology Edit
Petroleum geology is an interdisciplinary field composed of geophysics, geochemistry, and paleontology.[26] The main focus of petroleum geology is the exploration and appraisal of reservoirs containing hydrocarbons via technical forms of analysis.
Well Drilling Technology Edit
Well drilling technology is primarily the focus for drilling engineers. The two forms of well drilling are percussion and rotary drilling, rotary being the most common of the two. In order to account for the depletion of natural gas and the limitations of standard drilling techniques, drilling technologies such as vertical drilling, horizontal drilling and directional drilling have been developed in order to obtain hydrocarbons from impermeable reservoirs and coal-bed methane. An important aspect of dilling is the drill bit which creates a borehole of approximately three and a half to thirty inches in diameter. There are three classes of drill bits: roller cone bits, fixed cutter bits, and hybrid bits. Each will use teeth to cut into the surface in order to create a borehole.To optimize drilling efficiency and cost, drilling engineers make use of drilling simulators that allow them to identify drilling conditions per location.
