Horizontal Well Technology

The purpose of this book is to summarize horizontal well technology. The author draws from his extensive experience in horizontal operations around the world and provides you with a thorough understanding of horizontal well technology basics. The author presents history of the technology, recent developments, and basic drilling concepts. In addition, he discusses factors influencing horizontal well performance, such as naturally fractured reservoirs, inaccessible locations, drilling attic oil, drilling through faults and relief wells. The author includes field histories and analyses of productivity and performance. 

Features & Benefits

• Overview of horizontal well technology
• Reservoir engineering concepts
• Steady-state solutions
• Influence of well eccentricity
• Comparison of horizontal and fractured vertical wells
• Transient well testing
• Pseudo-steady state-flow
• Water and gas coning in vertical and horizontal wells
• Horizontal wells in gas reservoirs
• Pressure drops through tubing a horizontal well

Audience

• Geologists
• Reservoir engineers
• Drilling engineers
• Production engineers

About the Author

S.D. (Sada) Joshi, Ph.D. is President of Joshi Technologies International, Inc., (JTI) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He founded JTI in 1988. The company is involved in field application, equipment design, and software development for horizontal wells. Dr. Joshi has delivered more than 75 lectures and short courses on horizontal well technology around the world and has published numerous technical papers in many professional journals and conferences. JTI is actively involved in many field and pilot projects around the globe, including selection of zones or formations as horizontal well targets and design and implementation of horizontal well projects. In addition, Dr. Joshi and the JTI staff are involved in thermal oil recovery, well testing, reservoir heterogeneities, and water flooding studies. 

Prior to founding his company, Dr. Joshi was employed at Phillips Petroleum Company. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from W.C.E. College in Sangli, India, a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University. 

Details
Type: Hardcover
Size: 6x9
Pages: 535
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9780878143504