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• ISBN: 0750682701 • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books • Pub. Date: February 2007

Preface
The advances in the digital computing technology in the last decade have revolutionized the petroleum industry. Using the modern computer technologies, today’s petroleum production engineers work much more efficiently than ever before in their daily activities, including analyzing andoptimizing the performance of their existing production systems and designing new production systems. During several years of teaching the production engineering courses in academia and in the industry, the authors realized that there is a need for a textbook that reflects the current practice of what the modern production engineers do. Currently available books fail to provide adequate informationabout how the engineering principles are applied to solving petroleum production engineering problems with modern computer technologies. These facts motivated the authors to write this new book. This book is written primarily for production engineers and college students of senior level as well as graduate level. It is not authors’ intention to simply duplicate general information that can be foundfrom other books. This book gathers authors’ experiences gained through years of teaching courses of petroleum production engineering in universities and in the petroleum industry. The mission of the book is to provide production engineers a handy guideline to designing, analyzing, and optimizing petroleum production systems. The original manuscript of this book has been used as a textbook forcollege students of undergraduate and graduate levels in Petroleum Engineering. This book was intended to cover the full scope of petroleum production engineering. Following the sequence of oil and gas production process, this book presents its contents in eighteen chapters covered in four parts. Part I contains eight chapters covering petroleum production engineering fundamentals as the first coursefor the entry-level production engineers and undergraduate students. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the petroleum production system. Chapter 2 documents properties of oil and natural gases that are essential for designing and analysing oil and gas production systems. Chapters 3 through 6 cover in detail the performance of oil and gas wells. Chapter 7 presents techniques used to forecastwell production for economics analysis. Chapter 8 describes empirical models for production decline analysis. Part II includes three chapters presenting principles and rules of designing and selecting the main components of petroleum production systems. These chapters are also written for entry-level production engineers and undergraduate students. Chapter 9 addresses tubing design. Chapter 10presents rule of thumbs for selecting components in separation and dehydration systems. Chapter 11 details principles of selecting liquid pumps, gas compressors, and pipelines for oil and gas transportation. Part III consists of three chapters introducing artificial lift methods as the second course for the entry-level production engineers and undergraduate students. Chapter 12 presents an introductionto the sucker rod pumping system and its design procedure. Chapter 13 describes briefly gas lift method. Chapter 14 provides an over view of other artificial lift methods and design procedures. Part IV is composed of four chapters addressing production enhancement techniques. They are designed for production engineers with some experience and graduate students. Chapter 15 describes how to identifywell problems. Chapter 16 deals with designing acidizing jobs. Chapter 17 provides a guideline to hydraulic fracturing and job evaluation techniques. Chapter 18 presents some relevant information on production optimisation techniques. Since the substance of this book is virtually boundless in depth, knowing what to omit was the greatest difficulty with its editing. The authors believe that it...