Petroleum category: 266 books
by Keith Escoe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Whether it’s called “fixed equipment (at ExxonMobil), “stationary equipment (at Shell), or “static equipment (in Europe), this type of equipment is the bread and butter of any process plant. Used in the petrochemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, food processing industry, paper...
by Wilson C. Chin, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Quantitative Methods in Reservoir Engineering, Second Edition, brings together the critical aspects of the industry to create more accurate models and better financial forecasts for oil and gas assets. Updated to cover more practical applications related to intelligent infill drilling, optimized well...
by Alireza Bahadori
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
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...
by A. P. S. Selvadurai, A. P. Suvorov
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Investigations of multi-physical processes in geomaterials have gained increasing attention due to the ongoing interest in solving complex geoenvironmental problems. This book provides a comprehensive exposition of the classical theory of thermo-poroelasticity, complemented by complete examples to...
A New Method
from heavy to light crude oil
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This book is about to accomplish the implementation and development of a method for the production and modification of the molecular structure of heavy crude oil and extra heavy crude oil in the same oil field.
I hope to show that under a clearly defined system of optimization, production and...
Hypermiling Techniques
Secret Tips For Increasing Your Miles Per Gallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
********GASOLENE IS GOING UP, UP, UP - Hypermiling May Help********I watched a news report the other day. A woman told the reporter that it cost her $75.00 to fill up her car. "It's scary," she said. And this just may be the beginning. There are too many things that can go wrong. Things that can...
by Mike Cox
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there. The Texas oil industry had begun in earnest, and neither Texas...
by Brian Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A couple of years before I was born, the German people, in what turned out to be a poor decision, allowed Hindenburg - a fat man with a big moustache, to make Adolf Hitler - a thin man with a small moustache, their Chancellor. And so in 1941, as part of his manifesto regarding world domination, Adolf...
by Brian Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Determined to counter the popular belief that working offshore in the oil industry was the modern equivalent of being sold into slavery, Brian has gathered together a number of personal anecdotes which may help to redress the balance.Everything you read actually happened and despite being told by various...
by Brian Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In the 1950's Brian decided to make a daring career move based on almost total ignorance of the facts. This was to work underground in one of the deepest coal-mines in Lancashire. Like a number of things in life, it seemed to be a good idea at the time. Sadly, he had failed to consider the implications...
Mercury Control
for Coal-Derived Gas Streams
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This essential handbook and ready reference offers a detailed overview of the existing and currently researched technologies available for the control of mercury in coal-derived gas streams and that are viable for meeting the strict standards set by environmental protection agencies.
Written by an...
by Sanjay Patel
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Unless we are able to increase the global oil supply, we face a bleak future of depleting reserves and high energy prices. Since conventional oil reserves are dwindling, we have no alternative but to increasingly rely on unconventional oil, and for political, economic, and environmental reasons, the...
by The Insiders
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
A pithy collection of useful tips and avoidable pitfalls, based on actual experience of decommissioning offshore oilfields.
Gels Handbook
Fundamentals, Properties and Applications(In 3 Volumes)Volume 1: Fundamentals of HydrogelsVolume 2: Applications of Hydrogels in Regenerative MedicineVolume 3: Application of Hydrogels in Drug Delivery and Biosensing
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Hydrogels are made from a three-dimensional network of cross linked hydrophilic polymers or colloidal particles that contain a large fraction of water. In recent years, hydrogels have attracted significant attention for a variety of applications in biology and medicine. This has resulted in significant...