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An old fashion approach to reservoir engineering
This is one of the traditional textbooks of reservoir engineering that has survived the pass of time because of its undoubtful quality. The book has a considerable number of solved and proposed exercises and the subjects are presented in a manner very easy to understand. It was originally written at the time in which material balance calculations were the basic algoritm used by reservoir engineers to characterize hidrocarbon reservoirs. As such, this book is organized in terms of the material balance equation: it goes from material balance applied to dry gas, the next chapter is about material balance applied to gas-condensate, then undersaturated and so on, until all diferent fluids are covered. A variety of procedures to do the material balance calculations are presented, many of them of little or no usefulness today and definitely not even mentioned in modern reservoir engineering courses. Important topics such as PVT are dispersed in all the chapters. Other such as pressure testing and inmiscible displacement are covered without adequate depth. Numerical simulation is not even an entry in the subject index. In summary, if your interest is to read about material balance methods in reservoir engineering, this is the book to pick. If you are seeking a general view of the subject then there are better options.

The best one for my Company
My Friend told me about this book, Its awonderful book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Oil Reservoir Engineering    4. Petroleum    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Petroleum technology    9. Technology / Petroleum   

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Best Book on Classic Seismic Technology
This is the book I first consult when working on a new technique. The book is a classic in that it is not just an anthology of reprints. Instead, it is a true survey of the state of the art of the science/art. Use it as a first reference, and you will not go wrong. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Mining    3. Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Seismic prospecting    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Geophysics    8. Mining technology & engineering    9. Science / Geology    10. Vulcanology & seismology   

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Excelente learning tool for Petroleum Production Systems
It is an excellent book to understand in detail the petroleum production systems for a person who has some background in the area. It is also helpful as a reference book.

Waste of money
The book is unpractical for the working engineer and the mathematics is simplified calculus which is not understandable to the average practicing engineer, but seems to be in favor of academic types. This is not a book for someone who wants to learn why production equipment works. The chapter on multiphase flow is its only saving grace, but any cheap paper on the subject will say as much. I would recomened the OGCI books on Production Technology. Way cheaper...way better...

Usefull Reference Book for Petroleum Engineers
This is a comprehensive and relatively advanced book in petroleum production engineering. It helps to understand important parameters that control the performance of the production system. This book explainscomplex concepts of engineering very easy. Last, it has been written byexperienced professionals world wide well recognized in the oil industry. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Oil fields    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Engineering (General)    6. Production methods    7. Reference    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Mining technology & engineering    12. Petroleum technology    13. Production engineering    14. Technology / Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Industrial Design - General    3. Mining    4. Petroleum    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Gas technology    9. Technology / Petroleum   

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The Best Drilling Book to Date
If you are looking for a good book on environmental, geotechnical or hydrogeology drilling this is the BOOK it is set up so even a driller can understand basic concepts and gives engineers a good idea about drilling practices and concepts.

A very comprehensive and complete book about drilling
Im a driller in Mexico, I have found this book very useful, it covers a lot of topics, It is very well explained and very detailed in any subject, from measures to drilling techniques as well as machinery and tools and geology for drillers.Read more

Subjects:  1. Boring    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Mining    4. Natural Resources    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Geology & the lithosphere    9. Mining technology & engineering    10. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

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This book should be required reading for every electric power user
This book provides a lot of facts and is easy to read despite being about a subject that is somewhat complex. I think the author tries to be fair, it's just that the facts regarding the use of coal are so overwhlemingly negative. As he points out there are ways to use coal that might make it less polluting - they aren't being used much as it raises the cost of using coal. But there is no way around the enviromental destruction caused by mining coal. Everyone needs to read this book and get informed about the choices we must make regarding energy production. There are no easy answers as this book explains, but we can still make better decisions if we are willing to pay for them.

Holds troubling environmental concerns today.
Veteran journalist Jeff Goodell considers the latest energy idea that in coal lies America's energy future, providing an analysis of its supposed revival, the myth of cheap coal energy, and the history of coal's involvement in business, politics and resources throughout American activities. Chapters provide eye-opening insights on coal's lasting impact and importance - and why it holds troubling environmental concerns today.
Slanted View of the Coal Industry
The book falters from the start with a fairly poor presentation of the Coal Deposits of the World and USA in particular... for example, the reader is presented with a grey scale-coded map of the USA coal deposits - but we are given no legend to explain what the different grey shades represent! If I want to learn about American Coal deposits, I'd do much better looking in an encyclopedia.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Coal    4. Coal Mining    5. Coal mines and mining    6. Earth Sciences - Geology    7. Energy    8. Energy minerals    9. Industries - Energy Industries    10. Mining    11. Mining Of Specific Minerals    12. Science    13. Science/Mathematics    14. United States    15. Science / Geology   

Subjects:  1. Gas wells    2. Mining    3. Oil wells    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum engineering    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Technology / Petroleum   

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ONE IN A MILLION
I first came across Telford during my Postgraduate days in Nigeria. It's has been my second bible ever since. It's a classical book in Applied Geophysics. It has no rival. I would encourage geophysicists world-wide tohave a second look at the book, especially, professionals, postgraduate andundergraduate students. It's complete with modern references in AppliedGeophysics. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Mining    3. Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Atmospheric physics    6. Prospecting - Geophysical methods    7. Science / Geology   

Subjects:  1. Geophysical methods    2. Geophysical well logging    3. Mathematical models    4. Mining    5. Petroleum    6. Prospecting    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Statistical methods    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Energy Technology & Engineering    12. Technology / Petroleum   

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A 'you are there' history of a disaster
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: THE NORTH BUTTE MINING DISASTER OF 1917 provides a 'you are there' history of a disaster which began just before midnight on June 8, 1917, when a fire trapped over four hundred men underground. As they fought to survive below, politics and local changes intersected above in a book which covers not just the mining disaster's circumstances, but its lasting implications for labor relations.
One Disaster, Many Aftereffects
On 8 June 1917 an enormous 1,200 foot cable of wire, insulation, and lead sheathing, weighing five pounds per foot, was being lowered into the Granite Mountain copper mine in Butte, Montana.It kinked as it was going down the mine shaft, and in attempting to untangle it, the cable came loose, tearing down the shaft, ruining equipment, but harming no one.In the operation to recover the hopelessly damaged cable, however, part of the insulation caught fire.The resulting smoke and conflagration killed 164 miners, which is significant enough as the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.It also sparked labor violence and affected national politics even to the attempt of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to pack the Supreme Court with justices who saw things his way.Everything from the small flame that started the fire to the national repercussions is examined in _Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917_ (Hyperion) by Michael Punke.Readers will be reminded of the coal mining disasters from earlier this year and the continuing danger of working underground, but will also get short course in the history of American copper mining and the associated labor movements of the first half of the twentieth century.
Well researched and written historical tragedy
Since reading Punke's first novel, The Revenant, I have anxiously awaited his next effort. Fire & Brimstone certainly does not disappoint. Like the Revenant, Fire & Brimstone is a meticulously researched and colorful historical novel. However, Fire & Brimstone has significant relevance to today's world given the recent mining tragedies in West Virginia and elsewhere. Other modern day themes include all powerful energy companies, labor strife and environmental issues. Punke also brings to life a wide range of characters from that tragedy and era. I highly recommend Fire & Brimstone. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Butte    3. Copper mines and mining    4. Granite Mountain Speculator Mine Disaster, Mont., 1917    5. History    6. History - U.S.    7. History: American    8. Mine fires    9. Mining    10. Montana    11. Montana - Local History    12. U.S. History - Early 20th Century    13. United States - 20th Century    14. United States - 20th Century (1900-1945)    15. United States - State & Local - West    16. History / United States / 20th Century   

Subjects:  1. Electromagnetic fields    2. Engineering - Civil    3. General    4. Geophysics    5. Induction logging    6. Mathematical models    7. Mining    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism    12. Geochemistry    13. Science / Geophysics   

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Vast Information, Increadable Woodcuts
This book is not a simple read for those looking for the basics, it a detailed review of the process of mining in the 16th Century throughout Germany with the inclusion of some surrounding regions. All aspects of the search for and creation of metals are covered from how to determine where a vein of materials is most likely to be found thru the methods of ore refinement and ingot production. The footnotes are incredibly helpful and sometimes (necessarily) take up more space than the text they refer to. This is not a basic overview, it is a manual designed to educate in specifics.
Ian Myles Slater on: A Humanist's Industrial Handbook
Georg Pawer was an extremely well educated German in the Humanist tradition of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was natural that he turned his Greco-German name into Greco-Latin, labeling himself Georgius Agricola. Both versions mean Farmer (Georgios) Farmer (Pawer = Bauer / Agricola). He was a physician by profession. Neither side of his background would seem to suit him to write one of the great books on mining and the refining of ores, but as an official town physician, responsible for treating miners at no additional charge, he seems to have won their trust. The result was a manual, aimed not at people who would have to dig up ores, but at potential investors, and officials and lawyers, who would have to deal with financing, administration and litigation. He set out the basic customs and practices of mining, described the remarkably elaborate machines needed to keep mines dry and ventilated, and processing and refining, with their devices and chemicals. Naturally, he wrote it in the language of real scholarship, Latin, not sixteenth-century German.
Excellent attention to detail of ancient mining practices
This book is a great read.The sections are well defined to cover each topic, including measurements where applicable and even the definition of tracts and management of said lands.He has written other books too.Ihope they reprint the translations soon. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - General    2. Mining    3. Technology & Industrial Arts    4. Other prose: classical, early & medieval    5. Science / Earth Sciences   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Oil well drilling    4. Petroleum    5. Reference    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mining technology & engineering    10. Petroleum technology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Mining    3. Remote Sensing    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Seismic prospecting    6. Surveying    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mining technology & engineering    10. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

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Practising Reservoir Engineer
This is an excellent book. Covers the details of how geostatistical models are put together. Readable. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - General    2. Engineering - Civil    3. Engineering Models    4. General    5. Geology    6. Geophysics    7. Hydrocarbon reservoirs    8. Mathematical models    9. Mining    10. Mining Geology    11. Petroleum    12. Science    13. Science/Mathematics    14. Statistical methods    15. Technology & Industrial Arts    16. Earth Sciences | Geology    17. Petroleum geology    18. Technology / Engineering / Civil   

Subjects:  1. Computer Engineering    2. Computer Simulation    3. Engineering - Industrial    4. Mathematical models    5. Mining    6. Operations Research    7. Ore Processing    8. Ore-dressing    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Mathematical modelling    13. Metals technology / metallurgy    14. Mining technology & engineering    15. Technology / Metallurgy   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Industrial    2. Environmental Engineering & Technology    3. Environmental Science    4. Mining    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Atmospheric pollution    9. Environment law    10. Law / Construction    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Geology    3. Mining    4. Natural gas    5. Petroleum    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Seismic prospecting    9. Seismic reflection method    10. Geophysics    11. Science / Geology    12. Vulcanology & seismology   

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Concise, Comprehensive and Understandable
If you're unfamiliar with economics in general, but are in the mining industry, I would recommend this book to you.Not only is Mining Economics and Strategy easy to understand, it incorporates helpful examples, methods and programs to support the text.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Cost effectiveness    3. Economics - General    4. Environmental Engineering & Technology    5. Government policy    6. Industries - General    7. Mineral industries    8. Mining    9. Mining engineering    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology    12. Industry & Industrial Studies    13. Metals technology / metallurgy    14. Mining technology & engineering   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Mining    3. Mining engineering    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Mining technology & engineering    8. Technology / Mining