Petroleum category: 266 books
Reservoir Engineering
The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Reservoir Engineering focuses on the fundamental concepts related to the development of conventional and unconventional reservoirs and how these concepts are applied in the oil and gas industry to meet both economic and technical challenges. Written in easy to understand language, the book provides...
by T.D. van Golf-Racht
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1982
In the modem language of reservoir engineering by reservoir description is understood the totality of basic local information concerning the reservoir rock and fluids which by various procedures are extrapolated over the entire reservoir.
Fracture detection, evaluation and processing is another...
by Richard O. Baker, Harvey W. Yarranton, Jerry Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Practical Reservoir Characterization expertly explains key technologies, concepts, methods, and terminology in a way that allows readers in varying roles to appreciate the resulting interpretations and contribute to building reservoir characterization models that improve resource definition and recovery...
Geofluids
Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Geofluids: Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes is the definitive source on paleofluids and the migration of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins—ideal for researchers in oil and gas exploration.
There’s been a rapid development of new non-destructive...
by Emad Walid Al Shalabi, Kamy Sepehrnoori
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Low Salinity and Engineered Water Injection for Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs provides a first of its kind review of the low salinity and engineered water injection (LSWI/EWI) techniques for today’s more complex enhanced oil recovery methods. Reservoir engineers today are challenged in the...
by Mervin Fingas
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated water chief...
The Science and Technology of Unconventional Oils
Finding Refining Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book, The Science and Technology of Unconventional Oils: Finding Refining Opportunities, intends to report the collective physical and chemical knowledge of unconventional oils (heavy, extra-heavy, sour/acid, and shale oil) and the issues associated with their refining for the production of transportation...
Pressure Transient Formation and Well Testing
Convolution, Deconvolution and Nonlinear Estimation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
This reference presents a comprehensive description of flow through porous media and solutions to pressure diffusion problems in homogenous, layered, and heterogeneous reservoirs. It covers the fundamentals of interpretation techniques for formation tester pressure gradients, and pretests, multiprobe...
Trends in Oil and Gas Corrosion Research and Technologies
Production and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Trends in Oil and Gas Corrosion Research and Technologies: Production and Transmission delivers the most up-to-date and highly multidisciplinary reference available to identify emerging developments, fundamental mechanisms and the technologies necessary in one unified source.
Starting with...
by James G. Speight
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
As feedstocks to refineries change, there must be an accompanying change in refinery technology. This means a movement from conventional means of refining heavy feedstocks using (typically) coking technologies to more innovative processes that will coax the last drips of liquid fuels from the feedstock.
This...
by Ching H. Yew, Xiaowei Weng
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Revised to include current components considered for today’s unconventional and multi-fracture grids, Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing, Second Edition explains one of the most important features for fracture design — the ability to predict the geometry and characteristics of the hydraulically...
Renewable Heating and Cooling
Technologies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Renewable Heating and Cooling: Technologies and Applications presents the latest information on the generation of heat for industry and domestic purposes, an area where a significant proportion of total energy is consumed. In Europe, this figure is estimated to be almost 50%, with the majority of...
by Clyde H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Carbonate Reservoirs: Porosity, Evolution and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework
Biofuels for Aviation
Feedstocks, Technology and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Biofuels for Aviation: Feedstocks, Technology and Implementation presents the issues surrounding the research and use of biofuels for aviation, such as policy, markets, certification and performance requirements, life cycle assessment, and the economic and technical barriers to their full implementation....