1st Edition

Surface Well Testing A Practical Guide

By Paul Budworth, Abdullah Tanira Copyright 2024
470 Pages 305 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

470 Pages 305 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

470 Pages 305 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

With easy oil extraction becoming a thing of the past, new technologies and processes of discovery have been introduced into the exploration of oil and gas. These advancements rely on precise and accurate data, in many cases live during operations. Surface well testing operations acquire the necessary data during exploration, production, and development, and clean data is essential and heavily... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Well Testing Preparations

3. Time

4. Safety

5. Well Test Equipment

6. Well Test Separators

7. Hazards

8. Basic Sediment and Water (BS&W)

9. Liquid Gravity Measurements

10. Gas Measurements

11. Flow Data

12. Data Instrumentation

13. Reporting, Data, and Security

Biography

Paul Budworth has been working with oilfields for many decades, including as an Operations Training Instructor at Gulf Drilling and Maintenance Co., Kuwait, and Well Test and QA Coordinator. He served as Technical Director at Fardux, a major UK-based oil and gas data acquisition organization, for 24 years.

Abdullah Tanira earned an MSc in petroleum production engineering at Robert Gordon University. He has been involved in petroleum engineering consultancy with projects in secondary and enhanced oil recovery, onshore concessions open for exploration and production investments, oil and gas production services, and waste management.