Some Recent Practical Applications of Physico-Chemical Measurements to Petroleum Production Problems
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- During recent years the petroleum industry has felt the need for more scientific and conservative production methods. After being hard pressed for many years to meet the growing demand, the petroleum industry gradually realized that it was facing a new era in which, with increasing discovery of new fields and rapidly accelerating production rates under open flow method, it must contend with a general and continuing over supply. The realization that petroleum is irreplaceable and is present in limited quantities has emphasized the necessity for conservation of this most important mineral fuel and lubricant. Curtailed, prorated allowables have superceded the maximum rate production obtained under open flow practices. Wider spacing has superceded the town-lot drilling. The old production methods, resulting in dissipation of the gas energy and in irregular encroachment of edge-water, have been supplanted by practices designed to obtain maximum benefit from the reservoir energy.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | March 1939 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Prewett, Charles W. |
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| Primary advisor | Tlckell, Frederick George |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Mining Engineering |
Subjects
| Subject | School of Earth Energy & Environmental Sciences |
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| Genre | Thesis |
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- Prewett, Charles W. (1939). Some Recent Practical Applications of Physico-Chemical Measurements to Petroleum Production Problems. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/kf624fn4367
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