Fossil fuel technologies

An Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Simulation is aimed toward graduate students and professionals in the oil and gas industry working in reservoir simulation.

The Fossil Fuel Revolution: Shale Gas and Tight Oil describes the remarkable new energy resources being obtained from shale gas and tight oil through a combination of directional drilling and staged hydraulic fracturing, opening up substantial new energy reserves for the 21st Century.

Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles.

Until now, information on Russian enhanced oil recovery (EOR) research work and field experience has not been available in English.

This book presents guidelines for the design, operation and monitoring of CO2 injection in fractured carbonates, with low permeability in the rock matrix, for geological storage in permanent trapping.

The long-term future for coal looks bleak.

This book introduces the underlying concepts of column dynamics and buckling, based on the latest state-of-the-art research on this innovative topic.

This book describes the latest research on the geological, geochemical, geochronological, biological, and geomorphic evolution of the unique and relatively pristine landscape of the Cape Mountains and the Karoo Basin, a region in South Africa that is currently being targeted for shale gas exploration and development.

Presents numerical methods for reservoir simulation, with efficient implementation and examples using widely-used online open-source code, for researchers, professionals and advanced students.

The book provides the reader with a profound knowledge of basic principles, properties and preferred applications of diverse kinds of CO2 measurement.

Petrology utilizes the classical fields of mineralogy, petrography, optical mineralogy, and chemical analyses to describe the composition and texture of rocks.

This is the fifth volume in a series of books focusing on natural gas engineering, focusing on the extraction and disposal of acid gas.

Handbook of Biofuels Production, Second Edition, discusses advanced chemical, biochemical, and thermochemical biofuels production routes that are fast being developed to address the global increase in energy usage.

The term "e;Peak Oil"e; was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).

This book explains the place of oil in the economic and political predicaments that now confront the West.

Pipelines: Emerging Technologies and Design Criteria, the latest release in the Sustainable Oil and Gas Development series, delivers the tools needed to understand more environmentally-friendly design, construction and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.

Compression Machinery for Oil and Gas is the go-to source for all oil and gas compressors across the industry spectrum.

As the second volume of the "e;Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline: Research and Practice"e; series of monographs, this book introduces the implementation strategies, examples and technical roadmaps of two important aspects of the Digital Oil & Gas Pipeline construction: pipeline real-time data integration and pipeline network virtual reality system.

Direct Methane to Methanol: Foundations and Prospects of the Process offers a state-of-the-art account of one of the most interesting and potentially commercial technologies for direct conversion of natural gas into valuable chemicals.

Finite Element Programming in Non-linear Geomechanics and Transient Flow delivers a textbook reference for both students and practitioners alike, with provided codes to understand and modify.

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 induced fracture.

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.

When Fertl's first book, Abnormal Formation Pressures, was published by Elsevier in 1976, the topic was relatively new in book form.

This book provides the most up-to-date, advanced methods and tools for risk assessment of onshore pipelines.

This book comprehensively and systematically demonstrates the theory and practice of designing, synthesizing and improving the performance of fuels.

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.

This book summarizes the new major research findings about formation mechanism and control strategies of haze in China, including basic theories, key technologies, equipment and platforms and the applications and implementations of control technologies, in implementing the Strategic Priority Research Program (Class B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

An Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Simulation is aimed toward graduate students and professionals in the oil and gas industry working in reservoir simulation.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the applications of chemostratigraphy.

The book provides the most up-to-date information on testing and development of hydroprocessing catalysts with the aim to improve performance of the conventional and modified catalysts as well as to develop novel catalytic formulations.

For nearly a century, the energy industry had a profound impact on the Mississippi Delta, including both the natural and socio-economic systems.

Absorption-Based Post-Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the use of absorbents for post-combustion capture of carbon dioxide.

Subsea repairs and inspection are costly for petroleum and pipeline engineers and proper training is needed to focus on ensuring system strength and integrity.

Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial!

This book addresses unconventional hydrocarbon resources in India and the prospects for their exploitation.

Six years ago, at the end of my professional career in the oil industry, I left my management position within Agip S.

Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids, Third Edition delivers all the necessary lists of chemicals by use, their basic components, benefits and environmental implications.

Enabling Environment is as real as it gets.

In Chemistry of Petrochemical Processes, readers find a handy and valuable source of information containing insights into petrochemical reactions and products, process technology, and polymer synthesis.

The corrosion of carbon steels in amine units used for gas treatment in refining operations is a major problem for the petrochemical industry.

This edited book explores the use of surfactants in upstream exploration and production (E&P).

Coal-Fired Electricity and Emissions Control: Efficiency and Effectiveness discusses the relationship between efficiency and emissions management, providing methods for reducing emissions in newer and older plants as coal-fired powered plants are facing increasing new emission control standards.

This short monograph focuses on the theoretical backgrounds and practical implementations concerning the thermodynamic modeling of multiphase equilibria of complex reservoir fluids using cubic equations of state.

In recent years, production decline-curve analysis has become the most widely used tool in the industry for oil and gas reservoir production analysis.

The oil and gas engineer on the job requires knowing all the available oil field chemicals and fluid applications that are applicable to the operation.

Unconventional reservoirs of oil and gas represent a huge additional global source of fossil fuels.

As the cleanest source of fossil energy with the most advantageous CO2 footprint, natural gas continues to increase its share in the global energy market.

This book investigates how the EU member states' domestic energy policies have transformed in the last two decades as a consequence of horizontal and vertical integration forces.