Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production, 4th Edition

With over 100,000 copies sold, the new 4th edition joins this series to provide the most complete upstream petroleum guide for students and professionals. Dr. Norman Hyne guides you through the upstream segment of the value supply chain. Commonly used in universities, this easy-to-read and interpret book provides insight into the nature of gas and oil production explaining how it occurs in the earth, how to find it, how to drill for it, how to read well logs for evaluating the well, how to complete a well, how to produce gas and oil, and how to revive mature fields. He also introduces you to newer concepts such as drilling unconventional shale reservoirs which have revolutionized the industry and changed the world market.

Features and Benefits

• New, colored figures and plates
• Present-date statistics
• Modern techniques and equipment
• A glossary of need-to-know industry terms
• Italicized key words and phrases in the text

Audience

• Students
• Landmen
• Geologists
• Field level personnel
• Management
• Anyone who seeks to understand the upstream value chain.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 : The Nature of Gas and Oil
Chapter 2 : The Earth's Crust - Where We Find It
Chapter 3 : Identification of Common Rocks and Minerals
Chapter 4 : Geological Time
Chapter 5 : Deformation of Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 6 : Ocean Environment and Plate Tectonics
Chapter 7 : Sedimentary Rock Distribution
Chapter 8 : Mapping
Chapter 9 : Source Rocks, Generation, Migration, and Accumulation of Petroleum
Chapter 10 : Reservoir Rocks
Chapter 11 : Petroleum Traps
Chapter 12 : Petroleum Exploration - Geological and Geochemical
Chapter 13 : Petroleum Exploration - Geophysical
Chapter 14 : Drilling Preliminaries
Chapter 15 : Drilling a Well - The Mechanics
Chapter 16 : Drilling Problems
Chapter 17 : Drilling Techniques
Chapter 18 : Testing a Well
Chapter 19 : Completing a Well
Chapter 20 : Surface Treatment and Storage
Chapter 21 : Offshore
Chapter 22 : Well Intervention
Chapter 23 : Reservoir Mechanics
Chapter 24 : Petroleum Production
Chapter 25 : Reserves and Resources
Chapter 26 : Improved Oil Recovery
Chapter 27 : Unconventional Resources

References
World Records
Unit Conversions
Index
Abbreviations
Industry Terms & Locations