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Well Testing

John Lee

1982

159 pp;Softcover

SPE Textbook Series Vol. 1

ISBN:978-089520-317-5

Society of Petroleum Engineers

This title is no longer available from the SPE Bookstore it is being replaced by a revised version, Applied Well Test Interpretation.

The first book in the SPE Textbook Series, this volume emphasizes fundamental principles in using well pressures and flow rates to evaluate the formation surrounding a tested well. Originally published in the early 1980's, this textbook has been an industry and educational standard for many years. Example problems, exercises, tables and figures supplement the material.

Contents: Fluid flow in porous media • Pressure buildup tests • Flow tests • Analysis of well tests using type curves • Gas well testing • Other well tests • Appendices: Development of differential equations for flow in porous media • Dimensionless variables • Van Everdingen and Hurst solutions to diffusivity equations • Rock and fluid property correlations • General theory of well testing • Use of SI units in well-testing equations

About the Author:

John Lee holds the Peterson Endowed Chair and is Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M U. in College Station, Texas. After receiving a PhD degree from the Georgia Inst. of Technology in 1963, he worked as a Senior Research Specialist with Exxon Production Research Co. and as a reservoir engineer with Exxon Co. U.S.A. operating districts in south Texas until 1968. He was Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Mississippi State U. from 1968 to 1971 and Technical Advisor to Exxon Co. U.S.A. for integrated major field studies from 1971 to 1977. Lee joined Texas A&M in 1977 and also joined S.A. Holditch and Assocs. Inc. in 1980, from which he retired as Executive Vice President in 1999. He has received numerous awards from SPE, including the Reservoir Engineering Award (1986), the John Franklin Carll Award (1995), Honorary Membership (2001), and the Anthony Lucas Award (2003). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1993) and the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni (1994). He also has been faculty adviser to the SPE student chapter during several school years.

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