Marcel Dekker, 2003. — 358 p. — ISBN 0824756147. The immediate product extracted from oil and gas wells consists of mixtures of oil, gas, and water that is difficult to transport, requiring a certain amount of field processing. This reference analyzes principles and procedures related to the processing of reservoir fluids for the separation, handling, treatment, and production...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 1993. — 512 p. — ISBN: 9780824789466, 0824789466. Provides insights into the composition of petroleum, especially its heavy ends, and presents a review of modern methods for the analysis of heavy petroleum fractions, which are viewed as refinery feedstocks. The concept of an atmospheric equivalent boiling point (AEBP) scale increasing the...
Rand Publishing. 2008. 198 p. Large U.S. coal reserves and viable technology make promising a domestic industry producing liquid fuels from coal. Weighing benefits, costs, and environmental issues, a productive and robust U.S. strategy is to promote a limited amount of early commercial experience in coal-to-liquids production and to prepare the foundation for managing...
Academic Press. 1997. 351 p. Fossil hydrocarbons form a continuous series whose"heavy"members-heavy oils, bitumens, oil shale kerogens, and coal-are important sources of conventional lighter fuels. These hydrocarbons are much more abundant and easier to extract than natural gas and oil. This book discusses the origins and compositions of fossil hydrocarbons and shows how...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017. — 725 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809272-9. This book is a priceless collection of solutions and advice from Heinz Bloch on a broad range of equipment management themes, from wear to warranty issues, organizational problems and oil mist lubrication, and professional growth and pre-purchase of machinery. The author draws on his industry experience to hone in...
CRC Press, 2011. - 406 p. This book provides a holistic understanding of petroleum and petrochemical products manufacturing, presented in a step-by-step sequence of the entire supply chain. Due to the advancement of technology, new petrochemicals are being invented and will continue to be relevant to the petroleum industry in the near future. Filled with crucial information...
Wiley, 2018. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-24427-1. Consolidates the many different chemistries being employed to provide environmentally acceptable products through the upstream oil and gas industry This book discusses the development and application of green chemistry in the oil and gas exploration and production industry over the last 25 years — bringing together the various...
Springer, 2018. — 397 p. — ISBN: 9811329494. This book provides comprehensive information on the youngest member of the petroleum sciences family: Oilfield Chemistry, proposes the chemical agents for addressing current problems, and explains the functions, mechanisms and synergistic effects of various chemical agents Clay Minerals Drilling Fluid Chemistry Cement Slurry...
Wiley – Scrivener Publishing, 2018. — 1190 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-22408-2. Petroleum refining and process engineering is constantly changing. No new refineries are being built, but companies all over the world are still expanding or re-purposing huge percentages of their refineries every year, year after year. Rather than building entirely new plants, companies are spending...
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2016. — 492 p. ISBN13: 978-1-4665-9672-6 (eBook - PDF) Handbook of Refinery Desulfurization describes the operation of the various desulfurization process units in a petroleum refinery. It also explains the processes that produce raw materials for the petrochemical industry. It illustrates all the possible processes to lower the sulfur contents in...
Exxon Engineering, 1981. The document covers the design of vapor-liquid separators drums, including internals (anti-vortex baffles and crinkled wire screens) and special design considerations. Information is also given on the influence of the flow characteristics in the inlet piping on separator drum performance. Finally, it contains desing criteria to prevent or minimize...
Elsevier Inc.; Gulf Professional Publishing, 2013. — 230 p. When classifying fracturing fluids and their additives, it is important that production, operation, and completion engineers understand which chemical should be utilized in different well environments. A user's guide to the many chemicals and chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Hydraulic...
Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2013. — 616 p. Chemistry for Enhancing the Production of Oil and Gas provides an overview of the science and technology of the use of production chemicals to enhance and maintain oil and gas production. This new book emphasizes the technical aspects of the production management from the perspective of the upstream oil and gas industry. The...
2nd edition. - Oklahoma, Tulsa, Penn Well Publishing Company, 1995. - 297 p. ISBN: 0-87814-450-1. Overview of the Petroleum Industry. Structure of the Petroleum Industry. Productive Formations. Field Development. Drilling Equipment and Methods. Formation Evaluation - Logging and Coring. Completing the Well. Casing and Cementing. Production Concepts. Oroduction Methods -...
CRC Press., 1998. — 300 p. Offers detailed coverage of the perochemical applications of large-volume industrial gases. The text examines the factors that influence the cost of producing and delivering gases and the economic reasons for choosing specific manufacturing methods. It emphasizes the commercial areas that employ industrial gases as feedstocks.
IGI Global, 2018. — 557 p. — ISBN: 9781466699762. Technological advancements are leading the way for innovation within the petrochemical industry. New materials discovery and application, process modification and automation, and market and demand changes are just a few of the many changes occurring as a result of technology innovation and integration. Petrochemical Catalyst...
The Pennsylvania State University Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 1992. - 517 p. This book presents a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the technology of producing and transporting natural gas. The design of a development plan for a natural gas field always depends on the reservoir and well characteristics, tubing and flowline performance, and compressor and...
CRC Press. 2005. — 264 p. In the past two decades, new modeling efforts have gradually incorporated more molecular and structural detail in response to environmental and technical interests. Molecular Modeling in Heavy Hydrocarbon Conversions introduces a systematic molecule-based modeling approach with a system of chemical engineering software tools that can automate the...
Springer, 2020. – 92 p. – ISBN: 978-3-030-30750-9. This book offers a straightforward, informative guide to the chemicals used for gas hydrate formation and inhibition, providing the reader with the latest information on the definition, structure, formation conditions, problems, and applications of gas hydrates. The authors review not only the inhibitors used to prevent or...
CRC Press. 2007. — 392 p. Advances in processing methods are not only improving the quality and yield of lubricant base stocks, they are also reducing the dependence on more expensive crude oil starting materials. Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks provides a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry behind the processes involved in petroleum base stock production...
Gulf Professional Publishing., 2009. — 352 p. Based on the classic Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Second Edition, the Working Guide to Petroleum and Natural Gas Production Engineering begins with an extensive overview of the basic principles, definitions, and data. Later chapters cover properties of hydrocarbon mixtures, flow natural flow of fluids,...
ASTM International. 2008. — 148 p. This manual deals with the practice of distillation and vapor pressure measurement either in the laboratory or at on-line facilities. Although flammability characteristics of various petroleum products measured by flash point determination provide significant volatility information, this work specifically excludes discussion of flash point...
Springer International Publishing (Switzerland), 2014. — 402 p. The book starts in a logical manner with the opening Chapiter 1 describing the fundamentals of natural gas. Subsequent to the wellhead the gas must be transmitted and distributed to its final destination, that is, the consumers. These transmission and distribution processes require thorough understanding of their...
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005 p. — X, 156 p. — ISBN: 3-527-31194-7. A very detailed, workable approach to improving energy efficiency and cost effectiveness in petroleum processing, dealing with the role of management and refinery operators in achieving the best technological parameters, the most rational utilization of energy, as well as the greatest...
Gulf Publishing Company, 1989. — 252 p. — (Contributions in Petroleum Geology and Engineering, Volume 5). — ISBN: 0872015882 087201066X 9780872015883. The models described in this book are the results of a collaborative research and development project executed by three parties: Statoil a.s., the Norwegian state oil company, Calsep A/S, a Danish engineering consulting company,...
PennWell, 2005. — 221 p. This nontechnical treatment is a great introduction to oil and gas production for anyone from beginning petroleum engineering and geology students to accountants, salespersons, and other professionals interested in the industry. Co-authored by Martin Raymond, a veteran production manager, and William Leffler, one of the top petroleum nontechnical...
ITOe, 2017. — 332 p. — ISBN: 9535133128. This book provides useful information about pyrolysis, which includes the pyrolysis of biomass and pyrolysis of fossil fuels and petrochemicals. The book elucidates and illustrates further innovative pyrolysis processes such as catalytic pyrolysis, spray pyrolysis, and microwave-assisted pyrolysis, and discusses the production of...
Marcel Dekker, 2003. — 420 p. Crude Oil Chemistry is foremost a scientifically exact guide to the full family of classical and modern analytical and process technologies in petroleum refining in widening its vision also to incorporate a geological history of petroleum formation, present-day geopolitical and economic issues, and approaches to redress and improve the delicate...
Gulf Professional Publishing, 2017. — 676 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-813022-3. This book delivers the necessary framework to help engineers understand the needs of the reservoir, including sections on early transmission and during the life of the well. Written from a reservoir perspective, this reference includes methods and equipment from gas reservoirs, covering the gathering stage...
2nd Edition. — Gulf Professional Publishing, 2020. — 787 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809923-0. This Handbook, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the process steps required to produce hydrocarbons from various raw materials and how the choice of a process depends not only on technology, but also on external effects, such as social and economic developments, political factors...
Gulf Professional Publishing, 2018. — 556. — ISBN: 978-0-12-805151-1. This book introduces the petroleum engineer to biotechnology, bringing together the various biotechnology methods that are applied to recovery, refining and remediation in the uses of petroleum and petroleum products. A significant amount of petroleum is undiscoverable in reservoirs today using conventional...
Elsevier, 2011. — 397 p. The petroleum refining industry integrates many process operations that are engaged in refining crude petroleum into petroleum products, liquid fuels such as gasoline and diesel in particular. It also incorporates many processes that produce raw materials for the petrochemical industry. Over the past four decades, the refining industry has experienced...
CRC Press, 2017. - 727 p. Petroleum refining involves refining crude petroleum as well as producing raw materials for the petrochemical industry. This book covers current refinery processes and process-types that are likely to come on-stream during the next three to five decades. The book includes (1) comparisons of conventional feedstocks with heavy oil, tar sand bitumen, and...
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2017. — 407 p. — ISBN10: 9814719315 This unique compendium is devoted to flexoelectricity — the response of polarization to a strain gradient. The effect is analogous to piezoelectricity which is the response of polarization to strain itself. In contrast to piezoelectricity, which appears only in non-centrosymmetric materials,...
Springer, 2018. — 125 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-66074-5. This book addresses several issues related to hydrate inhibition and monoethylene glycol (MEG) recovery units (MRUs) in offshore natural gas fields, from fundamentals to engineering aspects and from energy consumption assessment to advanced topics such as exergy analysis. The assessment of energy degradation in MRUs is...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. — 456 p. — ISBN: 978‑1‑57444‑787‑3 (alk. paper) Although there is a shortage of light petroleum, there is plenty of heavy petroleum rich in macromolecules available, creating an increasing interest for processes that can convert these heavy oils to light oils. Process Chemistry of Petroleum Macromolecules provides the scientific basis...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 187 p. – ISBN: 978-3-319-32320-6 Chemical structure and bonding. The scope of the series spans the entire Periodic Table and addresses structure and bonding issues associated with all of the elements. It also focuses attention on new and developing areas of modern structural and theoretical chemistry such as...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. — 370 p. Radiation-thermal cracking of oil feedstock has the potential to offer a solution to many of the challenges the oil industry is facing. Radiation-induced chain cracking reactions in hydrocarbons at lowered temperatures initiated the development of improved technological approaches, combining the advantages of radiation-thermal cracking and...
Wiley, 2020. — 406 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-48788-3. A guide to the design, operation, control, troubleshooting, optimization as well as the recent advances in the field of petrochemical processes. This book is a guide to the tools and methods for energy optimization and process design. Written by a panel of experts on the topic, the book highlights the application of these methods...
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