A Comprehensive Multi-Platform Petroleum Engineering Toolbox for Oil and Gas Industry

Abstract

Abstract There are certain online tools that serve as a comprehensive toolbox in specific areas of engineering, including but not limited to, chemical and mechanical engineering. These tools provide quick online access to a broad range of equations used in the area of interest while serving as a convenient tool for professionals who do not have access to a comprehensive library or those who are not familiar enough with the subject to locate the equation required. Thus, the objective of the online Petroleum Engineering Toolbox is to provide users in the academia and industry – with or without a petroleum engineering background – a comprehensive and convenient round the clock accessible source of petroleum engineering and related calculations, offering calculations and technical description of over 1000 formulas. Petroleum Engineering Toolbox consists of 2 main sections; equations and a technical manual/reference, featuring a total of over a thousand calculations in reservoir, drilling, production, well testing, fluid flow, laboratory experiments, economics, PVT, logging, optimization, well stimulation, EOR and thermodynamics. The purpose of technical manual/reference section is to serve as a library for reference tables, charts, tables in petroleum engineering, thus, providing a very convenient tool for engineers working anywhere in the world, especially in places where it is difficult to access sources of information including fields, offshore and onshore remote locations. The manual outlines the theory of equations used in calculations with units for the most convenient and user-friendly experience. The petroleum engineering toolbox is available online and as a mobile application for better use on mobile devices. The online interface of Petroleum Engineering Toolbox is entirely built on top of open source technology. Server side connection is done by Apache 2.4.9 Web Server and PHP Version 5.2.4. Formula representations are done by MathJax open source library. Petroleum Engineering Toolbox is available for PC, Mac, tablet, or any mobiles device through mobile friendly online user interface. It is also accessible for iPhone and iPad user as a mobile application. Currently, even though there are tools for specific calculations, there is no such comprehensive and globally-available toolbox in all platforms in the oil and gas industry, thus, Petroleum Engineering Toolbox is a first of its kind serving the professionals in the oil industry and the academia with its expanding content.