Cossé R. Basics of reservoir engineering

Technip, 1993. — 342 p.Reservoir engineering is a twentieth century discipline: the concepts of saturation and relative permeability, for example, emerged some fifty years ago. It is also a highly specific discipline, nourished by the earth sciences, by thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in particular.Following a period in which reservoirs produced by their natural energy alone, and on exclusively empirical bases, the need for a more rational development was naturally imposed.The science of reservoir engineering, which developed in recent decades, now draws on many advanced techniques in data acquisition and reservoir simulation.Note also that producing and developing a reservoir implies a close interdependence of reservoir techniques, of those pertaining to drilling and well completion, and the surface techniques required for hydrocarbon gathering and processing before transport. Hence it naturally entails a multidisciplinary effort.