Fossil fuel technologies

This book is based on the industry leading short course of the same name hosted by the GIW Industries Hydraulic Laboratory and founded by Dr.

 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 major reference book offers the professional engineer - and technician - a wealth of useful guidance on nearly every aspect of gas turbine design, installation, operation, maintenance and repair.

The latest edition of this best-selling title is updated and expanded for easier use by engineers.

This book on hydrocarbon exploration and production is the first volume in the series Developments in Petroleum Science.

Earth science is becoming increasingly quantitative in the digital age.

This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.

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.

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

This book on well test analysis, and the use of advanced interpretation models is volume 3 in the series Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production.

You get information needed to evaluate a reservoir, determine the particular requirements of the job, and design a storage facility that will operate at its full potential.

This book is concerned with the application of tracers to a wide variety of oil field operations.

Primarily this book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles.

Biocatalysis in Oil Refining focuses on petroleum refining bioprocesses, establishing a connection between science and technology.

No fishing job is a welcome operation, but this new edition of a classic reference helps you do the job efficiently and economically.

Subsidence of geologic surface structures due to withdrawal of fluids from aquifers and petroleum reservoirs is a phenomenon experienced throughout the world as the demand for water and hydrocarbons increases with increasing population growth.

Petroleum engineering now has its own true classic handbook that reflects the profession's status as a mature major engineering discipline.

Petroleum engineering now has its own true classic handbook that reflects the profession's status as a mature major engineering discipline.

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

The book introduces procedures for simulating migration and entrapment of oil in three dimensions in sequences of sandstones and shales.

Sequence Stratigraphy, presently one of the most rapidly growing areas in geology, is concerned with the documentation and prediction of how sandstones (potential hydrocarbon reservoirs) and shales (potential source rocks) are distributed in time and space within sedimentary basins.

The wealth of petroleum has made the Middle East one of the most actively explored regions of the world.

For the practitioner, this volume is a valuable tool for predicting reservoir flow in the most efficient and profitable manner possible, using quantitative methods rather than anecdotal and outdated methods.

The oil price shocks of the mid-1980s and their aftermath created radical changes in the petroleum industry, and underlined the need for reliable information on petroleum resources.

This book on PVT and Phase Behaviour Of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids is volume 47 in the Developments in Petroleum Science series.

Libya has the largest petroleum reserves of any country in Africa and since production began in 1961 over 20 billion barrels of oil have been produced.

This conference was arranged by the Norwegian Petroleum Society in order to commemorate the first 25 years of exploration on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

The applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to petroleum exploration and production have become more and more important in recent years.

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

This volume contains peer-reviewed manuscripts describing the scientific and technological advances presented at the 6th Natural Gas Conversion Sumposium held in Alaska in June 2001.

On January 1988, the ascertained and economically accessible reserves of Natural Gas (NG) amounted to over 144,000 billion cubic meters worldwide, corresponding to 124 billion tons of oil equivalents (comparable with the liquid oil reserves, which are estimated to be 138 billion TOE).

This book examines the underlying mechanics of creating a fracture from vertical or deviated wellbores and the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in the reservoir.

Integrated Flow Modeling presents the formulation, development and application of an integrated flow simulator (IFLO).

Learning by experience is both a part of the daily life and the exploration life.

The symposium on Hydrotreatment and Hydrocracking of Oil Fractions aims to provide a global perspective and an inspection of the state-of-the-art of these processes.

In January 1996 a total of 270 conference participants gathered for 3 days in Trondheim, Norway, to focus on and to discuss the complex topic of hydrocarbon seals particularly related to deformation zones and to caprocks.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

Most geoscientists are aware of recent IT developments, but cannot spend time on obscure technicalities.

The Murzuq Basin is a large intracratonic sag basin located in southwestern Libya.

To stay profitable while complying with environmental regulations requires that the coal industry not only improve fine coal recovery but also finds better ways for its utilization.

Casing design has followed an evolutionary trend and most improvements have been made due to the advancement of technology.

Carbonate Reservoirs: Porosity, Evolution and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework

This second volume on carbonate reservoirs completes the two-volume treatise on this important topic for petroleum engineers and geologists.

The purpose of Applied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers is to present in a clear and concise form methods of utilizing the data of temperature surveys in deep boreholes as well as the results of field, laboratory and analytical investigations in geothermics to a wide audience.

Over the past decade, extensive research has been conducted on the subject of coal as one of the world's leading energy sources.

Now in its sixth edition, Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook has been and continues to be the standard resource for any professional in the pipeline industry.

Besides covering topics like catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, and alkylation, this volume has chapters on waste water treatment and the economics of managing or commissioning the design of a petroleum refinery.

Without sensors most electronic applications would not exist-sensors perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world.

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips.

Here is the latest edition of a compact reference that has been a real treasure for materials personnel for more than 15 years.