Contents: Smart drilling: both technological and cultural revolutions for the oil industry. Well data acquisition strategies. Geosteering opportunities. Achieving and maintaining improved drilling performance in the tectonically stressed Andean foothills of Colombia. Wellbore stability: one of the most important engineering challenges when drilling smart wells. Interactive drilling: the fastest way from reservoir to production. Synthesis of the round table discussions.

Annotation The proceedings from the November 1999 Rueil-Mamaison conference feature seven papers and a synthesis of round table discussions. They address strategies for the development of oil fields, interactive procedures, and measurement techniques. Specific papers discuss well data acquisition strategies, geosteering opportunities, improved drilling performance, and wellbore stability. Contributors include specialists from Agip, BP, Amoco, Elf, Geoservices, Statoil, and TotalFina. c. Book News Inc.

The volume provides clear and concise information on reservoir engineering methods, ranging from specific geological and geophysical techniques applied to reservoirs, to the basics of reservoir simulation, with reference to well logging, fluid PVT studies and well testing. Emphasis is placed on recent methods such as the use of type curves in well test interpretation, and on horizontal drain holes. The information will help all specialists in the relevant disciplines such as geologists, geophysicists, production engineers and drillers. It will also be useful to a broader range of specialists such as computer scientists, legal experts, economists and research workers, in placing their work within a wider professional context and incorporating it into a multidisciplinary field of activity.

"The book covers the basic techniques of reservoir engineering necessary for a professional to master. The approach consists of starting from the fundamental physical laws down to the practical applications in reservoir engineering. Emphasis is placed on assumptions and limits attached to each concept and the link between theory and field applications. The theory in this book is developed with a homogenous unit system with useful formulas expressed in practical units."--BOOK JACKET.