Petroleum reserves are critical to the oil and gas industry, representing the recoverable amount of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids over time. Reserve forecasts are used by companies for planning, budgeting, and capital allocation, while energy lenders, investors, and government agencies rely on reserve estimates to make significant financial ......
Updated after two decades, this new edition combines a father/son author team that spans more than 75 years in the petroleum industry. R. ""Dobie"" Langenkamp offers a fresh set of terms and phrases introduced to the industry over the past 20 years, and still includes many historical references from the early days of the industry.
Modern reservoir engineering must accommodate for a complex set of heterogeneous phases contained in the well and petroleum reservoir. Achieving the optimal solution to reservoir problems involves employing sophisticated simulation techniques, executing complex well-completion actions, and following up with constant attention to the changes within ......
Petroleum engineers face the daily challenges of designing and testing wells. Finding the right technical data guide for conducting these tasks can be daunting, and so renowned petroleum engineer George Stewart has written the comprehensive volume Well Test Design & Analysis, filled with advanced information unparalleled on a variety of wellbore ......
Large sets of petroleum fluid data exist for the various reservoir conditions and properties that occur in practice. Petroleum Reservoir Fluid Property Correlations, written by three internationally well-known and respected petroleum engineers, is the result of years of exhaustive research that gathered data sets from databases all over the ......
To the casual observer, the oil business seems constant and unchanging. The familiarity of the oil industry's retail outlets masks extraordinary changes in how the industry engages in its four primary sectors of activity: finding and producing crude oil, transportation, refining, and marketing. In his new book, noted energy economist Dr. Samuel A. ......
The Technology and Economics of Natural Gas Use in the Process Industries
Gas Usage and Value addresses issues concerned with the development and sale of natural gas resources. The text overviews the world's gas reserves and outlines the principal issues concerning composition and the cost of producing well head gas to make a specification product or extract particular components; operation and cost of gas plants; and ......
Energy prices have been at the center of the news in this new millennium. Swift fluctuations in the energy markets often have a brutal effect on the company bottom line. In his concise and comprehensive book, hedging guru Peter C. Beutel gives readers the tools they need to play the energy price volatility game and win. Using a nontechnical style ......
Becker explains the physical chemical problems associated with waxes and emulsions and the new technologies for treatment of these problems. Contents: Petroleum companies and emulsions Forces involved in macroscopic physical behavior of emulsions Oil and water emulsion breakers Petroleum companies and waxes Chemical surfaces Wax crystal ......
