This is a how-to encyclopedia of prospecting for oil and gas. The book, an addition to the Handbook set of the Treatise of Petroleum Geology, focuses on procedures and proven petroleum exploration techniques that are critical for generating viable prospects. The twenty-one chapters deal with exploration philosophy, the concept and critical elements of traps in a petroleum system, evaluating the elements of a petroleum province, and methods for predicting reservoir occurrence, quality, and performance.
This text is the definitive source on its topic and contains numerous diagrams and appendices, as well as case histories and review questions with numerical problems.
* Offers detailed description of process chemistry and thermodynamics and product by-product specifications of plants * Contributors are drawn from the largest petroleum producers in the world, including Chevron, Mobil, Shell, Exxon, UOP, ...
In the 1970s, the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile $8 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. Workers by the tens of thousands headed north,...
The actual building of the line is described and the controversial issues of environmental impact, timing, planning and accountability are discussed.
The Arctic Imperative: An Overview of the Energy Crisis
The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.
Oil and gas resource assessment methodology: oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on...
This edition covers every major aspect of pressure vessel design and provides up-to-date requirements given in ASME, ASCE, UBC, and AISC codes. The well-respected manual offers page after page of...
Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954
Using analogies, graphs, formulas and illustrations, the author overviews key topics in the refining industry for professionals in finance and marketing. The third edition reflects changes in petroleum processing and...