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- 4.0: Lesson Overview
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Estimation of Stock Tank Oil Originally In-Place, STOOIP Using the Volumetric Method
- 4.3: Drive Mechanisms in Oil Reservoirs
- 4.4: Performance of Oil Wells
- 4.4.1: Stabilized Performance of Oil Wells
- 4.4.1.1: Steady-State Flow of Oil to a Vertical Production Well with No Well Damage or Well Stimulation
- 4.4.1.2: Steady-State Flow of Oil to a Vertical Production Well with Well Damage or Well Stimulation
- 4.4.1.3: Steady-State Flow of Oil to a Vertical Production Well in Terms of the Average Pressure
- 4.4.1.4: Pseudo Steady-State Flow of Oil to a Vertical Production well
- 4.4.1.5: Inflow Performance Relationship for Stabilized Flow to an Oil Production Well
- 4.4.2: Transient Performance of Oil Wells
- 4.4.2.1: Flow Regimes during Transient Flow
- 4.4.2.2: Derivation of the Diffusivity Equation in Radial-Cylindrical Coordinates
- 4.5: Field Performance of Oil Reservoirs
- 4.5.1: Field and Well Performance of Oil Reservoirs by Material Balance
- 4.5.1.1: Volumetric, Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs
- 4.5.1.1.1: Material Balance Method for Estimating the Stock Tank Oil Originally In-Place
- 4.5.1.1.2: Material Balance Method for Making Future Reservoir Predictions
- 4.5.1.2: Non-Volumetric, Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs
- 4.5.2: Field and Well Performance of Oil Reservoirs by Decline Curve Analysis
- 4.5.2.1: Field and Well Performance with Arps Decline Curves
- 4.5.2.1.1: Exponential Decline (b=0)
- 4.5.2.1.2: Hyperbolic Decline (0<b<1)
- 4.5.2.1.3: Harmonic Decline (b=1)
- 4.6: Key Learnings
- 4.7: Summary and Final Tasks