Mr. Dake's book is unique -- reading it is like working side-by-side with an exceptionally intelligent, erudite, experienced engineer. Despite the author's wry conversational style, this is not a light volume that can be absorbed by speed-reading. The author is sharing decades worth of real-world experience, and it merits close study.

For example, after all the thick volumes that have been written on oil well testing, who would expect that there could be anything left to say? Yet Dake's approach to well testing is eye-opening, and will certainly influence this engineer's approach to designing & interpreting well tests.

Experienced engineers may find themselves wanting to argue with some of the author's opinions & recommendations, but they will conclude that the time they invested in studying this book was well spent.


A Workable Handbook  Oct 24, 2005 By Eddy Prayitno S. Ir
Most books on Reservoir Engineering are very university-Academic oriented and its up to us field engineers to decide wether such theories are workable or not in actual practice.

The Practice is a book that might be ranked as a handbook for applicable usage, especially offshore where economics dictates most decision making.

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Definitely the best  Mar 08, 2007 By Pedro Luis Solorzano Reyes "Chivito"
Dake really were in his best moment to known something and wrote down, here you can find out the state of the art, even now at 2007 of how to do the things in reservoir engineering, planning, following, just read it, you do not loose nothing, always win.

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Reservoir Engineering  Jan 19, 2007 By Suresh Kumar
This is a book which teaches an Engineer how to practice reservoir engineering in the oil and gas field.