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Principles of oil well production /

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Now throughly revised and updated, this work covers every aspect of operating and maintaining oil wells in order to optimize profits on each and every well. Analytical in its approach but practical in its application, it takes the guesswork out of successful oil well production. For this second edit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nind, T. E. W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1981]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Petroleum engineering.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Excerpts from the preface of the first edition
  • Reservoir performance
  • Production-rate-decline curves
  • The performance of productive formations
  • Vertical lift performance
  • Choke performance : well performance history
  • The principles of gas lift
  • Gas-lift valves and string design
  • Liquid production by slugs
  • Sucker rod pumping
  • Pumping well instruments
  • Special problems : pumping wells
  • Production economics
  • Conversion factors
  • Problems
  • Notes on solutions to the problems
  • Name index
  • Subject index.