Petroleum Engineering Timeline

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Brief

Petroleum Engineering Timeline is a timeline which describes the evolution of the Petroleum Engineering over time.

From the first well drilled, first PVT correlation, first multiphase flow correlation, through the first computer to the modern reservoir simulator.

Petroleum Engineering Timeline

Timeline

Year Author Note
1859 Drake well First oil well drilled
1942 Standing and Katz Gas Z factor correlation is coded into the PVT tool with Dranchuk correlation
1947 Standing Pb & Rs, Bo
1965 Hagedorn and Brown Oil Multiphase flow correlation is coded into the PQplot as a default oil VLP correlation
Oil FVF McCain W.D. McCain, Jr: The Properties of Petroleum Fluids, Second edition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1990.
Oil viscosity Beggs and Robinson Vazquez, M. and Beggs, H.D. 1980. Correlations for Fluid Physical Property Prediction. J Pet Technol 32 (6): 968-970. SPE-6719-PA.
Oil compressibility Farshad Frashad, F., LeBlanc, J.L., Garber, J.D. et al. 1996. Empirical PVT Correlations For Colombian Crude Oils. SPE-36105-MS. http://petrowiki.org/Calculating_PVT_properties
Z factor Dranchuk Dranchuk, P.M. and Abou-Kassem, H. 1975. Calculation of Z Factors For Natural Gases Using Equations of State. J Can Pet Technol 14 (3): 34. PETSOC-75-03-03.
Gas density Standard equation http://petrowiki.org/Gas_formation_volume_factor_and_density
Gas FVF Standard equation http://petrowiki.org/Gas_formation_volume_factor_and_density
Gas viscosity Lee Lee, A.L., Gonzalez, M.H., and Eakin, B.E. 1966. The Viscosity of Natural Gases. J Pet Technol 18 (8): 997–1000. SPE-1340-PA.
Gas compressibility Standard equation http://petrowiki.org/Isothermal_compressibility_of_gases
Water density McCain McCain Jr., W.D. 1991. Reservoir-Fluid Property Correlations-State of the Art. SPE Res Eng 6 (2): 266-272. SPE-18571-PA.