The oil & gas industry : a nontechnical guide /
Joseph Hilyard's timely new book provides a broad perspective on the oil and gas industry, with primary attention to the United States. It takes the reader on a tour of the operations used to find and evaluate resources, and then to produce, store and deliver oil and gas. The book's main f...
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Tulsa, Okla. :
PennWell,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Origins of oil and gas
- Oil overview
- Natural gas overview
- Searching for and evaluating oil and gas
- Drilling and completion : onshore
- Drilling and completion : offshore
- Managing oil and gas production
- Transporting oil
- Transporting natural gas by pipeline
- Transporting natural gas as LNG
- Converting oil into products
- Converting natural gas into products
- Petroleum industry structure
- Petroleum trading
- Emerging challenges for the petroleum industry
- Appendix A : terms, abbreviations, and acronyms
- Appendix B : further reading
- Appendix C : organizations, agencies, and professional societies
- Index.