Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers
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Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers

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Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers

About this book

The most comprehensive and thorough reference work available for petroleum engineers of all levels.

Finally, there is a one-stop reference book for the petroleum engineer which offers practical, easy-to-understand responses to complicated technical questions. This is a must-have for any engineer or non-engineer working in the petroleum industry, anyone studying petroleum engineering, or any reference library. Written by one of the most well-known and prolific petroleum engineering writers who has ever lived, this modern classic is sure to become a staple of any engineer's library and a handy reference in the field.

Whether open on your desk, on the hood of your truck at the well, or on an offshore platform, this is the only book available that covers the petroleum engineer's rules of thumb that have been compiled over decades. Some of these "rules, " until now, have been "unspoken but everyone knows, " while others are meant to help guide the engineer through some of the more recent breakthroughs in the industry's technology, such as hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery.

The book covers every aspect of crude oil, natural gas, refining, recovery, and any other area of petroleum engineering that is useful for the engineer to know or to be able to refer to, offering practical solutions to everyday engineering problems and a comprehensive reference work that will stand the test of time and provide aid to its readers. If there is only one reference work you buy in petroleum engineering, this is it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Preface
  5. About the Author
  6. Abrasion
  7. Absorption
  8. Acid Gas Removal
  9. Acid Gas Scrubbing
  10. Acid Number
  11. Acid Rain
  12. Acid-Base Catalysts
  13. Acidity and Alkalinity
  14. Acidizing
  15. Adsorption
  16. Adsorption Isotherm
  17. Adulteration
  18. Air Emissions
  19. Alcohol Blended Fuels
  20. Alcohols
  21. Alicyclic Hydrocarbons
  22. Aliphatic Hydrocarbons
  23. Alloys – Composition
  24. Amine Absorber
  25. Amine Condenser
  26. Amine Washing
  27. Ammonia
  28. Aniline Point
  29. Anticline
  30. Antoine Equation
  31. API Gravity
  32. Aromatic Hydrocarbons
  33. Asphalt Manufacture
  34. Asphaltene Constituents
  35. Associated Natural Gas
  36. Atmospheric Equivalent Boiling Point
  37. Auto-ignition Temperature
  38. Barrel
  39. Baumé Gravity
  40. Benchmark Crude Oil
  41. Bernoulli’s Principle
  42. Biomass and Biofuels
  43. Bitumen
  44. Bituminous Rock and Bituminous Sand
  45. Black Acids
  46. Black Oil
  47. Blending and Mixing
  48. Boiling Point and Boiling Range
  49. Brine
  50. Bubble Point and Bubble Point Pressure
  51. Bureau of Mines Correlation Index
  52. Calorific Value
  53. Capillary Forces
  54. Capillary Number
  55. Capillary Pressure
  56. Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide
  57. Carbon Number and Possible Isomers
  58. Carbonate Reservoir
  59. Carbonate Washing and Water Washing
  60. Catalyst Pore Diameter
  61. Catalytic Materials
  62. Catalytic Reforming
  63. Cementation Value
  64. Cetane Index
  65. Characterization Factor
  66. Chemical Reaction Rates
  67. Chemicals Reactive with Water
  68. Chemometrics
  69. Clausius Equation and Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
  70. Coal – General Properties
  71. Coke Yield from Conradson Carbon
  72. Common Acronyms
  73. Common Names of Selected Chemical Compounds
  74. Common Unit Conversions
  75. Commonly Used Constants
  76. Compressibility
  77. Coning
  78. Conversion Charts
  79. Conversion Factors
  80. Correlation Index
  81. Corrosion
  82. Corrosion – Fuel Ash
  83. Corrosion – Naphthenic Acid
  84. Cricondenbar
  85. Cricondentherm
  86. Critical Properties
  87. Critical Temperatures of Gases
  88. Crude Oil – Assay
  89. Crude Oil – Classification
  90. Crude Oil – Desalting
  91. Crude Oil – Distillation
  92. Crude Oil – Fractional Composition
  93. Crude Oil – Hydrotreating
  94. Crude Oil – Molecular Composition
  95. Crude Oil – Primary Recovery
  96. Crude Oil – Recovery
  97. Crude Oil – Refining
  98. Crude Oil – Residua
  99. Crude Oil – Sampling and Analysis
  100. Crude Oil – Secondary Recovery
  101. Crude Oil – Tertiary Recovery
  102. Crude Oil from Tight Formations
  103. Darcy and Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media
  104. Darcy’s Law
  105. Decimal Multipliers for SI Prefixes
  106. Decline Curve Evaluation
  107. Delivery Point
  108. Density, Specific Gravity, and API Gravity
  109. Density-Boiling Point Constant
  110. Determining Depreciation
  111. Dew Point Temperature and Pressure
  112. Dielectric Constant
  113. Dielectric Loss and Power Factor
  114. Diesel Index
  115. Dipole Moment
  116. Distillation
  117. Distillation – Flooding
  118. Distillation – Gap-Overlap
  119. Drilling Fluid
  120. Drilling Fluid Additives
  121. E85 Fuel
  122. Embrittlement
  123. Embrittlement – Hydrogen
  124. Emulsion
  125. Enhanced Oil Recovery
  126. Environmental Regulations
  127. Evaporation
  128. Expansion and Contraction of Solids
  129. Explosive Limits
  130. Fire Point
  131. Fischer-Tropsch Chemistry
  132. Flammability and Flammability Limits
  133. Flash Point
  134. Flow Through Porous Media
  135. Fluid Catalytic Cracking – Chemistry
  136. Fluid Flow Fundamentals
  137. Fluid Flow Through Permeable Media
  138. Fluid Flow
  139. Fluid Saturation
  140. Foamy Oil
  141. Formation Volume Factor
  142. Fouling
  143. Fracturing Fluids
  144. Fuel Oil
  145. Functional Groups
  146. Fundamental Physical Constants
  147. Gas Deviation Factor
  148. Gas Formation Volume Factor
  149. Gas Laws
  150. Gas Processing – Hydrogen Sulfide Conversion
  151. Gas Processing – Metal Oxide Processes
  152. Gas Processing – Olamine Processes
  153. Gas Processing – Sweetening
  154. Gas Processing – Absorption and Adsorption Processes
  155. Gas Processing – Acid Gas Removal
  156. Gas Processing – Carbonate and Water Washing Processes
  157. Gas Processing – Catalytic Oxidation Processes
  158. Gas Processing - Fractionation
  159. Gas Processing – Gas-Oil Separation
  160. Gas Processing – Liquids Removal
  161. Gas Processing – Metal Oxide Processes
  162. Gas Processing – Methanol-Based Processes
  163. Gas Processing – Molecular Sieve Processes
  164. Gas Processing – Nitrogen Removal
  165. Gas Processing – Physical Solvent Processes
  166. Gas Processing – Plant Schematic and Products
  167. Gas Processing – Processes and Process Selection
  168. Gas Processing – Water Removal
  169. Gas Solubility
  170. Gas-Condensate Reservoirs
  171. Gaseous Fuels
  172. Gaseous Hydrocarbons – General Properties
  173. Gasification – Chemistry
  174. Gasification – Refinery Resids
  175. Gas-Liquid Solubility
  176. Gas-Oil Ratio
  177. Gas-Oil Separation
  178. Gasoline – Component Streams
  179. Gas-to-Liquids
  180. Geological Time Scale
  181. Geothermal Gradient
  182. Glycol
  183. Grease
  184. Greek Alphabet
  185. Hazardous Chemicals
  186. Hazardous Waste
  187. Heat Capacity
  188. Heat Content of Petroleum Products
  189. Heat Exchangers
  190. Heat of Combustion of Petroleum Fuels
  191. Heat of Combustion of Petroleum Fuels
  192. Heat Transfer Coefficient
  193. Heat Transfer – Convection and Conduction
  194. Heating Value
  195. Heavy Feedstock Conversion – Thermal Processes
  196. Heterogeneity
  197. Heterogeneous Catalysis and Homogeneous Catalysis
  198. High-Acid Crudes
  199. Hydrate Formation and Prevention
  200. Hydraulic Fracturing
  201. Hydrocarbon Gases – Physical Constants
  202. Hydroconversion
  203. Hydrogen Chloride
  204. Hydrogen in Refineries
  205. Hydrogen Sulfide Conversion
  206. Hydrogen Sulfide
  207. Hydrogen
  208. Hydrostatic Pressure
  209. Ideal Gas
  210. Improved Oil Recovery Processes
  211. Incompatible Chemicals
  212. Ionic Liquids
  213. Isothermal Compressibility of Oil
  214. Kinematic Viscosity
  215. Liquefied Petroleum Gas
  216. Liquid-Gas Separators
  217. Lubricants – Classification
  218. Lubricating Oil – Base Stock
  219. M85
  220. Marx-Langenheim Model
  221. Material Balance
  222. Mean Density – Gas-Air Mixture
  223. Mean Density – Gas-Air Mixture
  224. Metals Content and FCC Coke Production
  225. Methane
  226. Molecular Weight of Petroleum Fractions
  227. Naphthenic Acids – Corrosion in Distillation Units
  228. Naphthenic Acids – Mitigating Corrosion
  229. Naphthenic Acids
  230. Natural Gas - Associated
  231. Natural Gas – Composition
  232. Natural Gas – Compressibility
  233. Natural Gas – Measurement
  234. Natural Gas – Nonassociated
  235. Natural Gas – Properties
  236. Natural Gas – Specific Gravity
  237. Natural Gas – Phase Behavior
  238. Natural Gas – Sweetening
  239. Natural Gasoline
  240. Nitrogen and Nitrogen Oxide Gases
  241. Nonassociated Natural Gas
  242. Octane Barrel Yield
  243. Octane Number
  244. Oil and Gas from Tight Formations
  245. Oil and Gas Originally in Place
  246. Oil Recovery Factor
  247. Oil Shale – General Classification
  248. Oilfield Chemicals
  249. Olamine Processes
  250. Olamine
  251. On-Stream Factor
  252. Opportunity Crudes
  253. Organic Compounds – Physical and Thermochemical Data
  254. Organic Solvents
  255. Oxygen
  256. Ozone
  257. Paraffin Hydrocarbons
  258. Particle Size Classification
  259. Permeability
  260. Petrochemicals
  261. Petroleum Products – Heat Content
  262. Petroleum Products
  263. Phase Behavior
  264. Polychlorobiphenyls
  265. Porosity
  266. Prefixes
  267. Pressure Conversion
  268. Principal Component Analysis
  269. Process System
  270. Product Blending
  271. Production Engineering Units
  272. Productivity Index
  273. Proppants
  274. PVT Properties
  275. Rate of Reaction
  276. Reactor Types
  277. Recovery Methods
  278. Refinery Feedstocks – Corrosive Constituents
  279. Refinery Gas
  280. Refinery Types
  281. Refinery Units – Materials of Construction and Operating Conditions
  282. Refractive Index and Specific Refraction
  283. Relative Density
  284. Relative Permeability
  285. Relative Volatility
  286. Reserves – Estimation
  287. Reserves
  288. Reservoir Crude Oil
  289. Reservoir – Drive Mechanisms
  290. Reservoir Pressure
  291. Reservoir – Types and Classification
  292. Reservoir
  293. Resid Upgrading Technologies
  294. Resource Estimation
  295. Retrograde Condensate Systems
  296. Retrograde Condensation
  297. Reynolds Number
  298. Rock Types
  299. SARA Analysis
  300. Saturated Steam
  301. Saturation
  302. Sediments, Reservoirs, and Deposits
  303. Separators – Gas-Oil Separation
  304. Shale Gas Formation
  305. Shale Gas Reservoirs – Variation in Shale Properties
  306. Shale Gas – Variations in Composition
  307. Shale Oil (Kerogen-Derived Oil) – Variation in Properties
  308. Shale Plays – Properties
  309. SI – International System of Units
  310. Solubility Parameter
  311. Solvents
  312. Specific Gravity
  313. Specific Heat
  314. Stress-Corrosion Cracking
  315. Sulfur Dioxide
  316. Sulfur Material Balance
  317. Supercritical Fluids
  318. Surface Tension
  319. Sweetening Processes
  320. Synthesis Gas
  321. Tar Sand
  322. Test Methods
  323. Thermal Conductivity
  324. Thermal Cracking Processes
  325. Tight Formations
  326. Unit Process
  327. Vapor Density
  328. Vapor Pressure
  329. Viscosity
  330. Viscosity Index
  331. Viscosity of Petroleum Fractions
  332. Viscosity-Gravity Constant
  333. Volume Flow Rate
  334. Volumetric Evaluation
  335. Volumetric Factors
  336. Water – Boiling Point Variation with Pressure
  337. Water –Common Impurities
  338. Water – Density and Viscosity in Relation to Temperature
  339. Water Saturation
  340. Watson Characterization Factor
  341. Weights and Measures – Density
  342. Weights and Measures – Fuels
  343. Weights and Measures - General
  344. Well Casing
  345. Wellbore Stability Analysis
  346. Wettability
  347. Wobbe Index
  348. Working Gas
  349. Bibliography and Information Sources
  350. End User License Agreement