Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production
eBook - ePub

Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production

  1. 506 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production

About this book

This easy-to-read and interpret book provides insight into the nature of gas and oil production explaining how it occurs in the earth, how to find it, how to drill for it, how to read well logs for evaluating the well, how to complete a well, how to produce gas and oil, and how to revive mature fields.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 - The Nature of Gas and Oil
  8. Chapter 2 - The Earth's Crust – Where We Find It
  9. Chapter 3 - Identification of Common Rocks and Minerals
  10. Chapter 4 - Geological Time
  11. Chapter 5 - Deformation of Sedimentary Rocks
  12. Chapter 6 - Ocean Environment and Plate Tectonics
  13. Chapter 7 - Sedimentary Rock Distribution
  14. Chapter 8 - Mapping
  15. Chapter 9 - Source Rocks, Generation, Migration, and Accumulation of Petroleum
  16. Chapter 10 - Reservoir Rocks
  17. Chapter 11 - Petroleum Traps
  18. Chapter 12 - Petroleum Exploration – Geological and Geochemical
  19. Chapter 13 - Petroleum Exploration – Geophysical
  20. Chapter 14 - Drilling Preliminaries
  21. Chapter 15 - Drilling a Well – The Mechanics
  22. Chapter 16 - Drilling Problems
  23. Chapter 17 - Drilling Techniques
  24. Chapter 18 - Testing a Well
  25. Chapter 19 - Completing a Well
  26. Chapter 20 - Surface Treatment and Storage
  27. Chapter 21 - Offshore
  28. Chapter 22 - Well Intervention
  29. Chapter 23 - Reservoir Mechanics
  30. Chapter 24 - Petroleum Production
  31. Chapter 25 - Reserves and Resources
  32. Chapter 26 - Improved Oil Recovery
  33. Chapter 27 - Unconventional Resources
  34. References
  35. World Records
  36. Unit Conversions
  37. Index
  38. Abbreviations
  39. Industry Terms & Locations