Fossil fuel technologies

The Fourth International Natural Gas Conversion Symposium was attended by 180 delegates from 25 countries.

The declining supply of crude oils worldwide and the ever increasing demand for petroleum products from China, India, Europe and the US have recently propelled crude prices to unprecedented levels.

This book provides readers with a timely review and discussion of the success, promise, and perils of machine learning in geosciences.

This book addresses vital issues, such as the evaluation of shale gas reservoirs and their production.

Liquid loading can reduce production and shorten the lifecycle of a well costing a company millions in revenue.

This book presents a unified framework for assessing the value of potential data-gathering schemes, with a focus on the Earth sciences.

When classifying fracturing fluids and their additives, it is important that production, operation, and completion engineers understand which chemical should be utilized in different well environments.

This book provides a unified framework for subsurface imaging based upon asymptotic and trajectory-based methods, with online software applications.

Growing concerns about the rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves, rising crude oil prices, energy security and global climate change have led to increased worldwide interest in renewable energy sources such as biofuels.

The subject of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled processes in fractured rock masses has close relevance to energy-related deep earth engineering activities, such as enhanced geothermal systems, geological disposal of radioactive waste, sequestration of CO2, long-term disposal of waste water and recovery of hydrocarbons from unconventional reservoirs.

Fundamentals of Horizontal Wellbore Cleanout delivers the latest methods regarding effective sand cleanout tools in horizontal wellbores.

This book addresses conventional and new predictive methodologies for estimating thermophysical properties of heavy petroleum fluids.

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This is the first book illustrating China's forest carbon projects.

This comprehensive book highlights soft computing and geostatistics applications in hydrocarbon exploration and production, combining practical and theoretical aspects.

In diesem Buch werden für repräsentative Fahrzeuge mit unterschiedlichen Antriebskonzepten Gesamtkosten und Treibhausgasemissionen vorgestellt.

Data Room Management and Rapid Asset Evaluation - Theory and Case Studies in Oil and Gas, Volume 66 introduces frameworks and workflows that help streamline the data room process, highlight the essential data that must be assembled in the permitted time window, and accelerate the subsequent assessment of the opportunity.

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 even in the most complex depositional environments.

Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Third Edition includes updated case studies, examples and experiments as well as a new chapter on modeling and simulations.

With the oil and gas industry facing new challenges-deeper offshore installations, more unconventional oil and gas transporting through pipelines, and refinery equipment processing these opportunity feedstocks--new corrosion challenges are appearing, and the oil and gas industry's infrastructure is only as good as the quality of protection provided and maintained.

Fine Reservoir Description: Techniques, Current Status, Challenges and Solutions presents studies on fine oil and gas reservoirs, covering aspects of current status and progress, content and methods/techniques, as well as challenges and solutions through literature review and case studies of reservoirs, including volcanic rocks in the Songliao Basin, glutenite at the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin, and sandstone in the Liaohe Basin, China.

This book focuses on clean transport and mobility essential to the modern world.

The fields covered by the hydrogen energy topic have grown rapidly, and now it has become clearly multidisciplinary.

This book introduces the geological concept of the "e;windfield-source-basin system,"e; based on integrated modern and ancient sedimentology studies.

Ship and Mobile Offshore Unit Automation: A Practical Guide: A Practical Guide gives engineers a much-needed reference on relevant standards and codes, along with practical case studies on how to use these standards on actual projects and plans.

This is the third of four volumes from the Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Environmental Studies Program (ESP).

This book describes the methods and numerical approaches for data assimilation in geodynamical models and presents several applications of the described methodology in relevant case studies.

Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export provides wide-ranging theoretical and methodological international contributions on the human dimensions of fossil fuel export, with a distinctive focus on exporting countries, some of which are new entrants into the marketplace.

Shale Oil represents a huge additional global fossil fuel resource.

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This book describes the application of modern information technology to reservoir modeling and well management in shale.

A complete guide to petrochemicals production processes-fully revised to cover the latest advancesGet all the information you need on petrochemical processes for major organic chemicals inside this industry-standard one-stop reference.

This book covers exploration and evaluation practices for various types of complex reservoirs, and summarizes a series of practical and effective techniques and methods.

Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design covers the fundamentals of solid mechanics and petroleum rock mechanics and their application to oil and gas-related drilling operations and well design.

This book provides a comparative analysis of both diesel and gasoline engine particulates, and also of the emissions resulting from the use of alternative fuels.

The conventional and modern well test interpretation methods are an important tool in the petroleum engineer's toolkit.

Powerfuels are the subject of intense and often contentious current discussions within industry, research, politics, as well as the overall society.

This book discusses the influence of oil on the internal politics of Iran.

This book collects and summarizes current scientific knowledge concerning coal-mined landscapes of the Appalachian region in eastern United States.

Compaction of Coarse-Grained Sediments, I

Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles for the Oil, Gas, Chemical, and Related Facilities, Fourth Edition, discusses high-level risk analysis and advanced technical considerations, such as process control, emergency shut-downs, and evaluation procedures.

Elements of Oil and Gas Well Tubular Design offers insight into the complexities of oil well casing and tubing design.

Membrane Technologies for Biorefining highlights the best practices needed for the efficient and environmentally-compatible separation techniques that are fundamental to the conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals for use as alternatives to petroleum refining.

This is the first volume of a two-volume set of critical reviews of many aspects of both asphaltenes and asphalts and their interrelationship.

This book covers the exchange of greenhouse gases in various ecosystems, biomes and climatic zones, and discusses the measurement, modelling and processes involved in these exchange dynamics.

Petroleum Economics and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide to E&P Investment Decision-Making, Volume 69, is a practical guide to the economic evaluation, risk evaluation and decision analysis of oil and gas projects through all stages of the asset lifecycle, from exploration to late life opportunities.

In order to reduce the cost of running blast furnaces (BFs), injected pulverized coal is used rather than coke to fire BFs.

Unconventional Shale Gas Development: Lessons Learned gives engineers the latest research developments and practical applications in today's operations.