Wireline Formation Testing: Hardware, Pressure Transient Testing, Interpretation, and Sampling

Wireline Formation Testing provides a comprehensive exploration of this modeling through use of hardware, advanced formation testing modules, and new interpretation techniques. Exposition of these analytical models, systematic inclusion of mixed boundary value problems, first-principle-based pressure gradient interpretation, probabilistic enumeration of radius of investigation, and system identification methods appeal to various levels of engineering expertise. This book provides a resource to experienced engineers who wish to evaluate reservoirs simultaneously with the scope of the testing results, as well as to universities that wish to provide students with this understanding through undergraduate and applied graduate courses.

About the Author :
Fikri J. Kuchuk, emeritus geoscientist fellow, retired from Schlumberger after 35 years as fellow and chief reservoir engineer in the USA, France, and the Middle East. He holds 45 years of experience in reservoir characterization and engineering, particularly in pressure transient formation and well testing. From 1988 to 1994, Kuchuk was a consulting professor in the petroleum engineering department of Stanford University, where he taught Advanced Well Testing. Kuchuk is a distinguished and honorary member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, from which he has received the following: 1994 Reservoir Engineering Award, 2000 Formation Evaluation Award, and 2001 Regional Service Award. In 2010, he received an honorary membership to SPE. Kuchuk is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American National Academy of Engineering. He is a two-time recipient of the Henri G. Doll award. T. S. Ramakrishnan is a senior science adviser in Schlumberger-Doll Research. He holds a BTech from IIT Delhi, and a PhD from IIT Chicago, both in chemical engineering. In addition to developing some of the theories behind high pH flooding, he has published in the areas of injection and formation testing, array induction logging, and downhole relative permeability, among others. He is a distinguished member of SPE (2003) and was the recipient of the SPE Formation Evaluation award (2009). He is also a distinguished alumnus of IIT Delhi and received the Charles W. Pierce distinguished alumni award from IIT Chicago. His undergraduate thesis received the national P. C. Ray award. He holds 67 awarded U.S. patents. Mustafa Onur is McMan chair professor of the McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering and director of Tulsa University Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects (TUPREP) at the University of Tulsa. His current research is on the application of inverse problem theory, mathematical optimization, and data science to problems of relevance in optimal reservoir management and development, assisted history matching and uncertainty quantification for oil, gas, and geothermal reservoirs. Onur is the recipient of the 2010 International SPE Formation Evaluation Award and the 2018 International Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award and has been an SPE Distinguished Member since 2014.