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by Y. N. Grigorenko, V.S. Sobolev, T. A. Andiyeva
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Much of the world’s petroleum is located on continental margins, and any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume. Written by some of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas, this volume explains...
Underground Gas Storage Facilities
Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 1995
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.
Underground Gas Storage Facilities combines background information with a systematic approach for examining a specific...
Natural Gas Hydrates
A Guide for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Rarely covered in formal engineering courses, natural gas hydrates are a common problem and real-life danger for engineers worldwide. Updated and more practical than ever, Natural Gas Hydrates, Third Edition helps managers and engineers get up to speed on all the most common hydrate types, how to...
Alberta Oil Sands
Energy, Industry and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
At 170 billion barrels, Canada's Oil Sands are the third largest reserves of developable oil in the world. The Oil Sands now produce about 1.6 million barrels per day, with production expected to double by 2025 to about 3.7 million barrels per day. The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern...
Gasification for Synthetic Fuel Production
Fundamentals, Processes and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Gasification involves the conversion of carbon sources without combustion to syngas, which can be used as a fuel itself or further processed to synthetic fuels. The technology provides a potentially more efficient means of energy generation than direct combustion. This book provides an overview of...
Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
Towards Developing Reservoir Emulators
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This second edition of the original volume adds significant new innovations for revolutionizing the processes and methods used in petroleum reservoir simulations. With the advent of shale drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and underbalanced drilling has come a virtual renaissance of scientific methodologies...
The Greening of Petroleum Operations
The Science of Sustainable Energy Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Future of Petroleum Operations
This state-of-the-art text analyzes some of the most contentious issues in the energy industry, covering new and greener processes for engineers and scientists and urging them to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Although petroleum is still...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
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. This symposium continues the tradition of excellence and the status as the premier technical meeting in this area established...
by Leonid Buryakovsky, Herman H. Rieke, Sanghee Shin
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Written by some of the world’s most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Petrophysics: The Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Revervoirs is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student these new cutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.
Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery: Fundamentals and Applications bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and field practice by presenting information on formation damage issues that arise during enhanced oil recovery. Multi-contributed technical chapters include sections on modeling...
Biomass Gasification, Pyrolysis and Torrefaction
Practical Design and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Biomass Gasification, Pyrolysis and Torrefaction, Third Edition, is enhanced with a new topic on processing and cleaning of product gas of gasification and a brief introduction to biomaterials, making it a versatile resource that not only explains the basic principles of energy conversion systems,...
Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Geoscience, Technologies, Environmental Aspects and Legal Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Geological storage and sequestration of carbon dioxide, in saline aquifers, depleted oil and gas fields or unminable coal seams, represents one of the most important processes for reducing humankind’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) reviews the techniques...
by Shahryar Jafarinejad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Petroleum Waste Treatment and Pollution Control combines state-of-the-art and traditional treatment and control methods for removing, controlling, and treating problems, such as groundwater contamination, aromatics, oil, grease, organic removal, and VOCs.
The book is divided into seven chapters,...
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics
Fingerprinting and Source Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting and Source Identification, Second Edition, provides users with the latest information on the tools and methods that have become popular over the past ten years.
The book presents practitioners with the latest environmental...