This hugely experienced author working in Texas, America's main oil-rich
state, has produced a work that goes after one of the holy grails of oil
prospecting. One main target in petroleum recovery is the description of
the three-dimensional distribution of petrophysical properties on the
interwell scale in carbonate reservoirs. Doing so would improve
performance predictions by means of fluid-flow computer simulations.
Lucia's book focuses on the improvement of geological, petrophysical,
and geostatistical methods, describes the basic petrophysical
properties, important geology parameters, and rock fabrics from cores,
and discusses their spatial distribution. A closing chapter deals with
reservoir models as an input into flow simulators. Not only does this
book provide a hugely practical approach that uses geostatistical as
well as petrophysical methods, it can also be used as course material to
integrate geology, geophysics and engineering.