Chapman Cronquist is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas with over 40 years of oil and gas reservoir engineering experience, both domestic and international, and in both operations and research. During 1985-1987, he chaired an SPE Task Force on Reserves Definitions and was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on Reserves Definitions during 1987-1988. He was elected a Distinguished Member of SPE in 1988. Chap has written papers and/or made presentations on waterflooding, PVT behavior, improved oil recovery, gas reservoir performance, basic and advanced reservoir engineering, probabilistic methods, and reserves estimation. He has a BS in geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. and an MS in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Pennsylvania State U.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Analogy Methods
3. Volumetric Methods
4. Material Balance Methods
5. Performance/Decline Trend Analysis
6. Specific Problems in Reserve Estimation and Classification
7. Field Examples
8. Reserves Analysis, Field Development, and Performance Monitoring
9. Probabilistic Estimation and Classification of Reserves