Petroleum Production Engineering, Second Edition, updates both the new and veteran engineer on how to employ day-to-day production fundamentals to solve real-world challenges with modern technology. Enhanced to include equations and references with today's more complex systems, such as working with horizontal wells, workovers, and an entire new section of chapters dedicated to flow assurance, this go-to reference remains the most all-inclusive source for answering all upstream and midstream production issues. . Completely updated with five sections covering the entire production spectrum, including well productivity, equipment and facilities, well stimulation and workover, artificial lift methods, and flow assurance, this updated edition continues to deliver the most practical applied production techniques, answers, and methods for today's production engineer and manager. . In addition, updated Excel spreadsheets that cover the most critical production equations from the book are included for download.

Part I: Well Productivity1. Well Components2. Properties of Petroleum Fluids3. Reservoir Deliverability4. Wellbore Flow Performance5. Choke Performance6. Well Deliverability7. Forecast of Well Production8. Production Decline Analysis

Part II: Surface and Downhole Equipment9. Well Tubing and Packers10. Separation Systems11. Transportation Systems

Part III: Well Stimulation and Workover12. Well Problem Identification13. Acidizing14. Hydraulic Fracturing15. Well Workover

Part IV: Artificial Lift Methods16. Sucker Rod Pumping17. Gas Lift18. Other Artificial Lift Methods

Part V: Pipeline Flow Assurance19. Pipeline Precommissioning and Testing20. Gas Hydrate Control21. Other Flow Assurance Issues22. Pipeline Pigging

Boyun Guo is a Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Petroleum Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS) of the Energy Institute of Louisiana (EIL). He has 40 years of work experience in the oil and gas industry and academia. He is the principal author of 11 books and author/coauthor of over 150 research papers. He holds a BS degree in Engineering Science from Daqing Petroleum Institute in China, MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.