Part IV ProductionEnhancement

Good production engineers never stop looking for opportunities to improve the performance oftheir production systems. Performance enhancement ideas are from careful examinations andthorough analyses of production data to find the controlling factors affecting the performance.Part IV of this book presents procedures taken in the petroleum industry for identifying wellproblems and means of solving the problems. Materials are presented in the following fourchapters.

Chapter 15: Well Problem IdentificationChapter 16: Matrix AcidizingChapter 17: Hydraulic FracturingChapter 18: Production Optimization

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