Fossil fuel technologies

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

This book provides pathways and strategies for mud engineers and drilling students in the future drilling industry.

This volume discusses how plant and algae organisms play a pivotal role in the transformation of solar energy to essential metabolites, and explores the numerous beneficial roles these metabolites have at an industrial level.

The reliance on fossil fuels for energy is unsustainable and has released an unprecedentedamount of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.

This book discusses effective and alternative uses for natural gas (NG) and highlights the utilization of NG in the field of methane activation and chemical production.

This book comprehensively identifies most reservoir rock properties using a very simple approach.

This book presents a consistent methodology for making decisions under uncertain conditions, as is almost always the case.

This book provides climate students with the basic scientific background to climate change management.

The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and concerns for environmental degradation due to the fossil fuel burning have led the scientific community to look for alternative renewable energy sources.

The updated textbook is intended to serve as an advanced and detailed treatment of the evolution of the subject of stratigraphy from its disparate beginnings as separate studies of sedimentology, lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, etc.

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.

This book provides a succinct overview on the application of rate and pressure transient analysis in unconventional petroleum reservoirs.

This world atlas presents a comprehensive overview of the gas-hydrate systems of our planet with contributions from esteemed international researchers from academia, governmental institutions and hydrocarbon industries.

This book covers different aspects of gas injection, from the classic pressure maintenance operation to enhanced oil recovery (EOR), underground gas storage (UGS), and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

This book focuses on the use of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, providing an overview of surfactants, their types, and different physical-chemical properties used to analyse the efficiency of surfactants.

This book provides insights into the benefits of using remote sensing data from a geoscientist's perspective, by integrating the data with the understanding of Earth's surface and subsurface.

This textbook is intended for post-graduate students in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

This book presents an unbiased, comprehensive examination of the state of knowledge for life cycle assessments (LCAs) of natural gas-fired electricity, covering a suite of environmental impact categories.

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

This book gives practical advice and ready to use tips on the design and construction of subsurface reservoir models.

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

This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the future.

This book presents the state of art of the several advanced approaches to beneficiation of coal.

This book presents a thermodynamic and economic analysis of gas-gas systems in power plants, including combined heat and power systems, combined cooling, heat and power systems, hydrogen production facilities and compressed energy storage system.

The proliferation of pipelines to transport oil and natural gas represents a major area of contestation in the landscape of energy development.

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Clean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and welfare of civilians.

This book focuses on the application of ionic liquids in flow assurance in the oil and gas industry.

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.

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.

This book provides an insight into the complexities of weaning Nigeria from its fossil fuels addiction while growing the economy on low carbon trajectory.

This book provides thorough knowledge and detailed information of oil shales using a range of conventional and unconventional techniques and methodologies combined to elucidate the composition of oil shale deposits.

This book is focused on the management of gas consumers, especially in cases of gas supply disruptions.

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

This book presents the results of the research project G5055 'Development of novel methods for the prevention of pipeline failures with security implications,' carried out in the framework of the NATO Science for Peace and Security program, and explores the lifecycle assessment of gas infrastructures.

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

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to well logging and the inverse problem.

This is a concise book with comprehensive information on coal and biomass ash generated from their combustion in thermal power plants.

This book explores the use of nanomaterials as diesel fuel additives.

Initially considered as a sub-class of ionic liquids, eutectic mixtures are formed by mixtures of low cost, often biodegradable Lewis or Bronsted acids and bases.

This book presents and describes an innovative method to simulate the growth of natural fractural networks in different geological environments, based on their geological history and fundamental geomechanical principles.

 This book covers the principles, historical development, and applications of many acoustic logging methods, including acoustic logging-while-drilling and cased-hole logging methods.

This book describes a science and technology of a new type of electrocatalysts consisting of a single atomic layer of platinum on suitable supports.

This book gathers cutting-edge studies on the relationship between energy innovations, economic growth, environmental regulation, promotion of renewable energy use, and climate change.

This book presents a detailed analysis of Power-to-Gas, a promising energy storage technology.

This book presents detailed explanations of how to formulate field development plans for oil and gas discovery.

This book focuses on the Permian time slice in the geological history of Gondwana, which includes Australia, India, South Africa, Antarctica and South America.

This book discusses current challenges in Japan, focusing on the nation's rapidly aging population and low birth rate, along with persistent public bond issues with heavy interest payments, the potential collapse of social security systems, and income inequality, as well as the global picture.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed description of the various mechanisms of the CCS-EOR process.

This book describes an innovative closed-loop concept that allows the feedback of online data from operational monitoring to create mining intelligence.