Petroleum category: 266 books
by Colin McPhee, Jules Reed, Izaskun Zubizarreta
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Core Analysis: A Best Practice Guide is a practical guide to the design of core analysis programs. Written to address the need for an updated set of recommended practices covering special core analysis and geomechanics tests, the book also provides unique insights into data quality control diagnosis...
Petrophysics
Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Fourth Edition provides users with tactics that will help them understand rock-fluid interaction, a fundamental step that is necessary for all reservoir engineers to grasp in order to achieve the highest...
Common Well Control Hazards
Identification and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Heavily illustrated with 900 pictures of actual well control sites, Common Well Control Hazards: Identification and Countermeasures provides a visual representation of 177 common well control hazards and how to prevent or counteract them. The perfect companion for any engineer who needs to develop...
Multiphase Flow Metering
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Over the last two decades the development, evaluation and use of MFM systems has been a major focus for the Oil & Gas industry worldwide. Since the early 1990's, when the first commercial meters started to appear, there have been around 2,000 field applications of MFM for field allocation, production...
Flow in Porous Rocks
Energy and Environmental Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Focusing on simplified models of physical flow processes, this book develops a series of quantitative models to describe the recovery of oil and gas from hydrocarbon reservoirs (including fracking), the physics of geo-sequestration of CO2, geothermal power production, and the potential for underground...
Shale Gas
Exploration and Environmental and Economic Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Shale Gas: Exploration and Environmental and Economic Impacts explores the shale gas exploration and production activities that are increasing globally, also presenting a basic understanding on the geological, geochemical, and geophysical aspects. The book is a key reference that is useful for researchers,...
Lost Circulation
Mechanisms and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Lost Circulation: Mechanisms and Solutions provides the latest information on a long-existing problem for drilling and cementing engineers that can cause improper drilling conditions, safety risks, and annual losses of millions of wasted dollars for oil and gas companies.
While several conferences...
Fuel Saving Tricks For Your Car
A Consumer Guide On Gas Saving Devices With Very Helpful Gas Saving Tips So You Can Get Better Gas Mileage With Lesser Fuel Consumption To Help You Save Money On Gas
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Can those gas saving devices out in the market today really help your car save on gas? Or is it another one of the many consumer scams riding along on the “Go Green” campaign?
Reality is, some of them are cunning deceptions intended to cheat the general public while there are several...
by Alastair J. Sinclair, Garston H. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation presents a comprehensive applied approach to the estimation of mineral resources/reserves with particular emphasis on the geological basis of such estimations, the need for and maintenance of a high quality assay data base, the practical use of a comprehensive...
Snake Oil
How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production... and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the...
A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control
Methods and Models for Managing the Project Lifecycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial! Randal Wilson's Project Schedule & Cost Control isn't your typical project management guide: it's 100% focused on the specific principles, techniques, and best-practice methodologies of scheduling...
by Robert D. Grace
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
As with his 1994 book, Advanced Blowout and Well Control, Grace offers a book that presents tested practices and procedures for well control, all based on solid engineering principles and his own more than 25 years of hands-on field experience. Specific situations are reviewed along with detailed...
Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs
She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A rollicking, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody, and incredibly funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade
Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria,...
Fire in the Night
The Piper Alpha Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel’s hull blistered and burnt. In...