Abstract
Petroleum production engineering focuses on producing hydrocarbons from well bottom-hole to surface through the wellbore . In this chapter, the terms inflow performance relationship, tubing performance relationship and choke performance relationship are firstly introduced, which relate the production rates with the in situ pressure along the flow path of the reservoir fluids in the wellbore. Different artificial lift techniques are then discussed to either resume production from a well where no flow is occurring or to achieve a higher production rate by lowering the well flowing bottom-hole pressure. Well stimulation methods, including matrix acidizing and hydraulic fracturing, are finally presented, which enhance the well production rate either by removing the skin from the well, or creating high conductive flow paths for the reservoir fluids to flow to the bottom-hole of the producers.
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Chen, S. (2017). Petroleum Production Engineering. In: Hsu, C.S., Robinson, P.R. (eds) Springer Handbook of Petroleum Technology. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49347-3_14
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