Petroleum category: 266 books
Surface Production Operations, Volume 1
Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The latest edition of this best-selling title is updated and expanded for easier use by engineers. New to this edition is a section on the fundamentals of surface production operations taking up topics from the oilfield as originally planned by the authors in the first edition. This information is...
by Alireza Bahadori
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Fluid Phase Behavior for Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs delivers information on the role of PVT (pressure-volume-temperature) tests/data in various aspects, in particular reserve estimation, reservoir modeling, flow assurance, and enhanced oil recovery for both conventional...
Advanced Biomass Gasification
New Concepts for Efficiency Increase and Product Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Advanced Biomass Gasification: New Concepts for Efficiency Increase and Product Flexibility provides a thorough overview on new concepts in biomass gasification and consolidated information on advances for process integration and combination, which could otherwise only be gained by reading a high...
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry
Localising Oil and Gas Operations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Localising Oil and Gas Operations, Volume Four in the Getenergy series will set out the case for localising the oil and gas operations within hydrocarbon-producing countries. The focus of this final Volume in the series will be to explore the value...
by James G. Speight
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels. However, there is much still to be done to improve techniques for their processing to make recovery and refining of these particular energy sources more cost-effective. Brief but readable, Heavy and...
Lacustrine Shale Gas
Case Study from the Ordos Basin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Lacustrine Shale Gas: Case Study from the Ordos Basin examines the special sedimentation and formation environment based on the actual exploration of lacustrine shale gas. Using the Chang7 black shale of Yanchang formation in Ordos basin as an example, this book deeply dissects the Lacustrine shale...
by A. Kayode Coker
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This complete revision of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 1 builds upon Ernest E. Ludwig’s classic text to further enhance its use as a chemical engineering process design manual of methods and proven fundamentals. This new edition includes important supplemental...
Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering
Modeling and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The advent of reliability engineering tools coupled with the cost of oil and gas operations has changed the paradigm of maintenance technology. A simple strategy of efficient replacement of failed equipment/component has been transformed into a more complex but proactive approach for keeping equipment...
Intelligent Digital Oil and Gas Fields
Concepts, Collaboration, and Right-Time Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Intelligent Digital Oil and Gas Fields: Concepts, Collaboration, and Right-time Decisions delivers to the reader a roadmap through the fast-paced changes in the digital oil field landscape of technology in the form of new sensors, well mechanics such as downhole valves, data analytics and models for...
Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering
Modeling and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis, Second Edition, provides the latest tactics and processes that can be used in oil and gas markets to improve reliability knowledge and reduce costs to stay competitive, especially while oil prices are low.
Updated with relevant analysis...
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: The Evolution of Four Energy Nations
Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil, and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
The third book in the Getenergy Guides series, The Evolution of Four Energy Nations considers how four very different countries have evolved as oil and gas-producing nations and how the interventions of government, industry and the education and training sector have addressed workforce and skills...
Oil Politics
Echoes of Ecological Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors. These essays are not meant just to enable for coffee table chatter: they are intended as calls to action,...
The Superb Fuel Guide
This Ultimate Handbook Will Bring You Definite Ideas On Diesel Vs Gasoline, Effective Gas Saving Tips, Fuel Efficient Vehicles Options, Best Gasoline Engines, Gasoline Credit Cards And So Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
A diesel engine will go much farther on a gallon of fuel that the standard gasoline engine because of their designs, and due to the higher energy density of a gallon of diesel fuel. But, it also takes a bit more oil to manufacture a gallon of diesel than a gallon of gas, with the production...
by Maurice Stewart, Ken Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators is practical guide designed to help engineers and operators develop a ?feel? for selection, specification, operating parameters, and trouble-shooting separators; form an understanding of the uncertainties and assumptions inherent in operating the equipment....