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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Hydraulic engineering > Dams & reservoirs
This book gives practical advice and ready to use tips on the
design and construction of subsurface reservoir models. The design
elements cover rock architecture, petrophysical property modelling,
multi-scale data integration, upscaling and uncertainty analysis.
Philip Ringrose and Mark Bentley share their experience, gained
from over a hundred reservoir modelling studies in 25 countries
covering clastic, carbonate and fractured reservoir types, and for
a range of fluid systems - oil, gas and CO2, production and
injection, and effects of different mobility ratios. The intimate
relationship between geology and fluid flow is explored throughout,
showing how the impact of fluid type, displacement mechanism and
the subtleties of single- and multi-phase flow combine to influence
reservoir model design. The second edition updates the existing
sections and adds sections on the following topics: * A new chapter
on modelling for CO2 storage * A new chapter on modelling workflows
* An extended chapter on fractured reservoir modelling * An
extended chapter on multi-scale modelling * An extended chapter on
the quantification of uncertainty * A revised section on the future
of modelling based on recently published papers by the authors The
main audience for this book is the community of applied
geoscientists and engineers involved in understanding fluid flow in
the subsurface: whether for the extraction of oil or gas or the
injection of CO2 or the subsurface storage of energy in general. We
will always need to understand how fluids move in the subsurface
and we will always require skills to model these quantitatively.
The second edition of this reference book therefore aims to
highlight the modelling skills developed for the current energy
industry which will also be required for the energy transition of
the future. The book is aimed at technical-professional
practitioners in the energy industry and is also suitable for a
range of Master's level courses in reservoir characterisation,
modelling and engineering. * Provides practical advice and
guidelines for users of 3D reservoir modelling packages * Gives
advice on reservoir model design for the growing world-wide
activity in subsurface reservoir modelling * Covers rock modelling,
property modelling, upscaling, fluid flow and uncertainty handling
* Encompasses clastic, carbonate and fractured reservoirs * Applies
to multi-fluid cases and applications: hydrocarbons and CO2,
production and storage; rewritten for use in the Energy Transition.
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Trevor Turpin
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As well as much-needed electricity, dams generate extremes of
emotion. Traditionally, dams have facilitated hydraulic
civilizations such as those in the Nile Valley, China and
Mesopotamia, and, in the twentieth century, Las Vegas and Los
Angeles. Yet with the proliferation of dams there are now more than
40,000 large dams worldwide opposition and support can be measured
in equal proportion. Their outstanding design and construction,
often in inhospitable conditions, is representative of the skills
of their engineers, yet others do not see such beauty in the
taming' of rivers. In 1998 the continuing controversy led to the
forming of the World Commission on Dams to seek a meeting of minds.
"Dam", a new addition to Reaktion's "Objekt" series, traces the
development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present
day through a number of themes both successes and failures
including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance
between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and
ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a previously
neglected subject, this book is neither a polemic against dams nor
a defence of their proliferation.It offers a fresh and much-needed
account of their design, construction and function, which will
appeal to general readers and those interested in environmental
policy, history and civil engineering.
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