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This special commemorative edition is a reprint of the classic volume originally published in 1967 by W. H. Freeman and Company. It honors the memory of a truly great scientist, petroleum geologist, and teacher.

For many years, this book was unparalleled as a resource for working petroleum geologists as well as students.

Even with the 33 volumes of AAPG's Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Levorsen's single volume of more than 700 pages remains a very useful reference.

With more than 50,000 copies published since the first edition was released in 1954, Geology of Petroleum remains one of the most widely read geology books of all time.

AAPG Foundation Commemorative Edition

American Association Of Petroleum Engineers (AAPG)

Founded in 1917, we are the world's largest professional geological society, with over 30,000 members.

We are a pillar of the world-wide scientific community. Our books foster scientific research, advance the science of geology and promote the most effective use of petroleum extraction & processing technology and practice.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

GIS
Petroleum Engineering
Well Log Analysis
Geological Modeling
Carbonate Petrology
Seismic Imaging
Reservoir Characterization
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A conveniently arranged petroleum fluids reference book covering components, properties, and equations for the various fluids and gases. Contents: Introduction and scope Water-in-crude-oil emulsions Characterization, phase behavior, and field processing of crude oil Separation of gas, oil and water Dehydration and desalting of crude oil Crude sweetening and stabilization Pumps Measurement of crude oil Fire heaters Pipeline transportation Energy conservation Instrumentation and process control Pressure relief and flaring Case histories Appendices. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Petroleum Fluid Book Review
Everything is great. Shipping is fast. Book is brand new although it was not wrapped in plastic.

Good Deal
Great deal on the book! I was able to save a lot of money with this purchase. It was exactly the book I needed.

Good Reference
This is a very good reference to have at hand.I am a petrophysicist and reading this book has allowed me to do a number of my computation much more accurately.

Great for fundamental petroleum calculations
I am using the second edition to help with my understanding of viscosity, permeability, compressibility, PV diagrams and other calculations.

The book is titled "An introduction".However, the detail in the book is at an intermediate level.You need to have at least some basic scientific and mathematical knowledge to make the best of this book.As an example, it is clearly a level above Dr Hyne's Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology.

The book does not go into great background detail and is more focused on calculations and examples of how they are derived and applied.If this is what you want this book for (as it was for me), it does a great job.

It has an exemplary index that is very useful in finding exactly what you are looking for.

Awesome book
This is definitely a very important book to have for people that study/work in the Petroleum industry. ... Read more

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Using examples, the author coaches you through the mathematics and interpretations of drawdown and pressure buildup testing, multirate flow testing, and wellbore effects. It presents an overview of current research models and their equations in relation to gas wells, naturally fractured reservoirs, layered reservoirs, and injection wells. It explains how to use the information gained in well testing to make engineering and economic decisions.


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Review of Petroleum Engineering Handbook
The Petroleum Engineering Handbook is an excellent general introduction to the engineering associated with oil and gas exploration and development, gathering together in one place most of the basic engineering issues, challenges and resolutions.

yes, it is big...but it fills the need as well.
without opening it, you would think that the secrets of the world were contained therein. as a reference tool, it is invaluable - it is comprehensive. everything from oil cracking to storage to...whatever. its in there!

i borrowed my professor's copy for a couple of weeks and everytime i had to lug the thing around (in my backpack), i felt i'd tip over by its weight. its strictly a DESK reference book.

for the curious: the book is a well written and easily understandable book with plenty of value to the petro-engineer or theresuch.

This is a big book
It looks big from a distance but when you get close you can really get into the 4 dimensional size of it.

Boy is it THICK!!
I found this book to be VERY thick. It's thickness increased the further one got into it. I expected a less thick book but was astonished at it's actual thickness. ... Read more

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This book presents a risk management framework designed to achieve better decisions and more desirable outcomes. It presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling, and risk acceptance criteria. Several examples from the offshore petroleum industry are included to illustrate the use of the framework, but it can also be applied in other areas.

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This book on PVT and Phase Behaviour Of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids is volume 47 in the Developments in Petroleum Science series. The chapters in the book are: Phase Behaviour Fundamentals, PVT Tests and Correlations, Phase Equilibria, Equations of State, Phase Behaviour Calculations, Fluid Characterisation, Gas Injection, Interfacial Tension, and Application in Reservoir Simulation. ... Read more

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Provides an organized explanation of economics evaluations for single processes and complete refineries. Explains how to use yield data, properties of products, and operating and capital costs in economic evaluation. A simplified process flow diagram and a brief description of the process is given for each process yield correlation. DLC: Petroleum--Refining. ... Read more

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What a disappointment
When I read the abstract for this book I thougth I would pick up some information or process description that would help pick out the most economical scheme to process a given feedstock. Instead what I got was mostly a rehash of what I can get from Hydrocarbon processing without any hard numbers or equations to use. The author spends most of the time describing databases of process inoformation he has collected and how he went about correlating the results, but without ever bothering to print the correlations that were developed. Instead you get tables comparing the authors correlations to other correlations which also are not published. This does nothing to help you know how to predict the performance of a unit. ... Read more

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This breakthrough new book may help save countless lives and avoid enormous losses.It presents a methodology for using gas migration to predict earthquakes and explosive gas buildup.Using rigorous scientific investigation and documented worldwide case histories, this remarkable book presents compelling evidence showing that changes in gas rates, composition, and migration accompany the tectronic events preceding earthquakes and their associated seismic events, such as volcanoes and tsunamis.Because these gas parameters are detectable and measurable, they provide an early warning of seismic activity.

Gas Migration is the first book to accumulate, analyze and apply the interdisciplinaryknowledge on gas migration and detail its connection to tectronic, seismic, and geologic phenomena.It combines geological, geochemical, geophysical, seismological, and petroleum engineering insights to demonstrate how gas migration and its associated phenomena can be used in earthquake and environmental geohazard identification and prediction.Topics include-

· Tectonics and Earthquakes
· Gas Migration at Plate Boundaries
· Surface Soil-Gas Surveys
· Faults and Petroleum Reservoirs
· Earthquake Precursors
· Whispering Gases
· Paths and Mechanics of Gas Migration
· Subsidence, Gas Migration, and Seismic Activity
· And much more

With this information, environmental specialists, civil engineers, petroleum geologists, seismologists, and urban planners now have a new and powerful conceptual basis and tool for understanding and perhaps even predicting gas explosions and earthquakes.
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Interesting potential
A fascinating book about a topic that not too many years ago was regarded akin to snake oil. At one point, all that was known about this subject was anecdotal. And since events like earthquakes occur irregularly, it was hard for researchers to systematically study this phenomenon.

But thanks to the authors, a large body of evidence has been collected into this text. It spans the fields of geology and seismology. The hope is that by methodically studying the gaseous outdiffusion from the earth, reliable precursors can be found. Even if these give only a few minutes warning, that is enough for critical power supplies to come online, lifts to unload, and other precautions.

The ever increasing cheapness of sensors and the increasing coverage of wireless networks means that the suggestions in the book might be adopted by dispersing a wide array of wireless sensors at earthquake prone regions. ... Read more

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This text contains the first comprehensive presentation of methods and algorithms used in basin modeling. It provides geoscientists and geophysicists with an extensive in-depth view of the theory behind the models. Heat flow analysis, chemical kinetics of petroleum generation, pressure analysis, PVT modeling and several fluid flow models are discussed in detail. Advanced topics such as probabilistic methods for risk assessment or new approaches such as modeling of migration with invasion percolation are also included. Comprehensive lists of rock and fluid properties and parameters of geochemical kinetics make the book a unique reference in geological process modeling.

Customer Reviews (2)

Just what I needed
I'm an IT professional who works in the E&P industry and this book has been excellent addition to library.

This is the best E&P Dictionary you will ever get !
This book is full of clear and complete definitions of most of the terminology used in the Oil business.It also have lots of illustrations. It is very hard not to find what you are looking for.Excellent for peoplethat intiates in the Oil business. ... Read more

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This book provides readers with introductoryinformation on oil and natural gas industry andengineering. It was written primarily for studentsat the university level, whose contribution will becrucial to the energy industry for continuingability to supply the world.This book also is anessential reference for non-engineering petroleumindustry technical and non-technical professionals. It addresses several petroleum and natural gasengineering issues including principals of oil andgas generation, exploration techniques, reservesestimation, field development, productionoptimization, reservoir management, the aspects ofwell drilling and completing, oil refining, oil andgas transportation, oil spill, and basic oil and gaseconomics. Additionally, the essential units andconversion factors were discussed in a simplifiedmanner. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Sub-Par Book to LEARN from
Used this textbook for a graduate course in 2009. That said, it's INCREDIBLY outdated. While very comprehensive and full of useful information, from a learning perspective, it's not very good. Examples are one of the major problems with this book. There are no labels for units during many of the example calculations and mysterious conversions pop up fairly regularly. The layout is frustrating as well, as many of the images, diagrams, charts referenced aren't on the same page as the written descriptions. You're better of buying a more up to date book. There's tons of them so you can't go wrong.

Excellent Textbook
This is an excellent book for it covers most of the aspects of drilling engineering. However, in some sense it is becoming outdated; it needs additional chapters on Novell Drilling techniques (Horizontal &Underbalanced drilling, Coiled tubing Drilling, MWD) chapter on drillingmuds should go more in depth, one example of preparing drilling program andsmall completion chapter would be a definite assett for this book.

great reference
I have been able to pick up technical calculations and great drilling information that would have taken several years ofhands on experience.

Excellent reference source for drilling engineering
This book provides a very detailed reference source for most aspects of drilling engineering. It covers everything from bit design to hydraulics to derived burst, collapse and tension equations for casing design. Diagramsand pictures are well presented and helpful in explaining some of thesubject matter. The only thing that is lacking is a chapter on drillingoptimization. ... Read more

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 Reorganized for easy use, Reservoir Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition provides an up-to-date reference to the tools, techniques, and science for predicting oil reservoir performance even in the most difficult fields.

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This book is intended to be a reservoir engineering book for college students, but itÂ’s not the usual college text book. It is a modern and very practical guide offering reservoir engineering fundamentals, advanced reservoir related topics, reservoir simulation fundamentals, and problems and case studies from around the world. It is designed to aid students and professionals alike in their active and important roles throughout the reservoir life cycle (discovery, delineation, development, production, and abandonment), and in the various phases of the reservoir management process (setting strategy, developing plan, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and completing).



Benefits & Features:



The authors bring to this book their life-long experience and expertise in reservoir engineering and simulation techniques and practice. The goal is to present a comprehensive book, starting from basic principles and leading to real-life reservoir management aided by simulation. This practical book explores the functions of reservoir engineers, and how they analyze, think and work in real life situations. It presents:



• Rock and fluid properties, fluid flow principles, well test analysis, and reservoir performance analysis techniques.



• New topics such as reserves, reservoir economics, risk and uncertainties, probabilistic methods, and recovery processes.



• Role of reservoir simulation models in enhancing basic reservoir engineering concepts and practice.



Computer-based tools, including reservoir simulation, are used extensively in this book to illustrate various concepts related to reservoir engineering. Finally, the book offers class projects where the students can apply what they have learned to treat their problems. This book will serve the students and the industry well. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Good Comprehensive Book
This one delivers as promised.Comprehensive, detailed, and easily read.I wish I had this book 25 years ago.

Excellent
I am a Measurement/Logging While Drilling Field Engineer. I am Planning going for My Msc In Petroleum Engineering and have been studying. With this Book at my Disposal, I have being able to integrate higher Percentage of my Feild Knowledge and the Theoretical Expect of the field Of Engineering. This Book is the Master Piece. Don't Think Twice when u Want to Buy this Book. You will love it. Very explicit and Direct to the Point.

The Encyclopedia.
I'm a Chemical Engineering student and I was required to purchase this book for a masters level course (I'm still going for a Bachelors). This book is great, it is widely considered as the encyclopedia for Petroleum Engineering and it was only published a few months ago. Great book, everything is explained in here and there are plenty of examples. ... Read more

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Geostatistics is a common tool in reservoir characterisation.Several texts discuss the subject, however this book differs in its approach and audience from currently available material.Written from the basics of statistics it covers only those topics that are needed for the two goals of the text:to exhibit the diagnostic potential of statistics and to introduce the important features of statistical modeling. This revised edition contains expanded discussions of some materials, in particular conditional probabilities, Bayes Theorem, correlation, and Kriging.The coverage of estimation, variability, and modeling applications have been updated.Seventy examples illustrate concepts and show the role of geology for providing important information for data analysis and model building.Four reservoir case studies conclude the presentation, illustrating the application and importance of the earlier material. This book can help petroleu ... Read more

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William LefflerÂ’s Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language, Fourth Edition is designed to give the reader an overview of key refining topics by using relevant analogies, easy-to-understand graphs, formulas, and illustrations. New to this edition is important information on the nature of crude oil and raw materials and a comprehensive discussion on what sets crude oil and oil products price differentials. Also new is a chapter on lubricants as well as the latest technologies employed by refiners. Each chapter was carefully written in nontechnical language to give the reader a basic understanding of the refining industry. The book can be used for self-study, as a classroom textbook, or as a quick reference.

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Customer Reviews (17)

Excellent entry-level book!
This book is very well done. It covers all the basics about petroleum refining with enough details to be useful and it is written in a very easy to understand language. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the main purpose of all major petroleum refining equipments and their respective strategic use.

Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language
Great book for anyone in the Petrochemical/refining business. Especially a new comer.It really breaks it down.

Biodiesel310
It's a okay book. i completed a course in refining and had this book. If you don't understand how different units work or new to the business this book would be a good place to start. easy explanation of process and useful diagrams.

Almost perfect
I have a BA degree in International Studies and an MBA in Finance. I have been in market and competitor analysis with energy consulting firms and operating companies for 28 years.

I have relied on this book every step of the way.

Do not expect to get a detailed understanding of how refining works. If that is what you are seerking, you're not in the right place (hint: read the title!). What this spelndid little book does is give a business person enough background to understand the various processes, both individually and as part of the flow from crude oil to, for example gasoline. How good is this book? Well, it has been in continuous publication for some 20 years.

EXCELLENT BOOK
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT PETROLEUM REFINING, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU !! ... Read more