Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology Exploration Drilling and Production

Second Edition
by Norman J. Hyne

Features:

• New chapters on reserves, offshore drilling and production, and workover
• A new seismic color plate
• New technologies in seismology and offshore drilling and completion
• Expanded glossary
• Revised plates and figures
• Drilling and production records
• Lots of new text throughout

Used by corporate training departments and colleges and universities worldwide, this is the most complete upstream guide available.

Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology Exploration Drilling and Production provides an easy to understand explanation of complex topics with pictures, graphs, and illustrations covering everything from how oil and gas is formed; how to find commercial quantities; how to drill, evaluate, and complete a well—all the way through production and improved oil recovery.

Contents

1. The nature of gas and oil
2. The Earth’s crust—where we find it
3. Identification of common rocks and minerals
4. Geological time
5. Deformation of sedimentary rocks
6. Sandstone reservoir rocks
7. Carbonate reservoir rocks
8. Sedimentary rock distribution
9. Mapping
10. Ocean environment and plate tectonics
11. Source rocks, generation, migration, and accumulation of petroleum
12. Petroleum traps
13. Petroleum exploration—geological and geochemical
14. Petroleum exploration—geophysical
15. Drilling preliminaries
16. Drilling a well—the mechanics
17. Drilling problems
18. Drilling techniques
19. Evaluating a well
20. Completing a well
21. Surface treatment and storage
22. Offshore drilling and production
23. Workover
24. Reservoir mechanics
25. Petroleum production
26. Reserves
27. Improved oil recovery

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