The most comprehensive manual of its kind geared toward the broad spectrum of workers involved in today's petroleum industry. From geology and exploration through drilling, production, refining, and environmental concerns, this easy-to-read text takes readers on a full-scale journey with the people and practices that help bring energy to consumers' doorsteps. Covers the basics along with technological advancements. Clearly written and colorfully illustrated. Divided in five parts for usability and includes an index.
In this final edition, author Gary S. McKinney interestingly delivers the reader into the exciting, wild and fascinating history of the northwestern Pennsylvania oil boom of the late 1800s--the early days of oil discovery in America.
Petroleum Prospectivity of the Northern Australian Region
Ahead of His Time; Michel T. Halbouty Speaks to the People
The Storage and Handling of Petroleum Liquids
Approximately 17 percent of U.S. oil is produced by offshore oil wells. Learn more about this natural resource in Oil, one of the titles in the Natural Resources series.
"There is oil under the ice in the Arctic, but how much? How would getting it affect this protected ecosystem? Find out in this fascinating book."
Refining petroleum for chemicals: a symposium co-sponsored by the Division of Petroleum Chemistry and the Division of Industrial and Engineering...
This text covers this through explanations and illustrations of transportation and deposition; classification of depositional environments, fluvial texture and composition, deltaic environments, coastal environments, neritic environments, ...
When James and Harvey needed money to get their drilling business going , Stewart had loaned it to them . About 1878 Wallace came back from the West , where he'd made a fortune with railroad ties . He had been impressed with the ...
The book, which accompanies the 2009 SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Short Course, is aimed at a broad range of geoscientists and engineers working in the petroleum industry.