Subjects:  1. Chemistry - General    2. Engineering - General    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Refining    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Heavy chemicals    9. Petroleum technology    10. Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial   

Reviews (5)

Overpriced and Under-illustrated
For 60 bucks, I expected something better than a book slightly larger than a paperback and printed on cheap paper.The book reminds me of a sociology professor I once had who taught his classes from a set of 20-year-old handwritten notes written on a yellow legal pad.And that's what this book is, a set of instructor's notes.
Review for the petroleum industry: a nontechnical guide
The illustrations in this book are terrible.The few illustrations that this book has look like a junior high school computer graphics class made them.If you are a visual learner like me, then this book might not be the best book for your money.Needless to say, I'm disappointed.Also, the book isn't a standard text book size, so don't let the amount of pages trick you into believing that it has a lot of text and info.

More a guide to the mechanics of petroleum production
This book is essentially a step by step explication of the hows (and to some extent the whys) of commercial oil and gas exploration and production. Of the books 14 chapters, 13 are devoted primarily to how oil is found, accessed and brought to the surface. There is one chapter on refining, and another on marketing, that together occupy less than 10% of the books total space.
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Subjects:  1. Business/Economics    2. Engineering - General    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Engineering (General)    5. Petroleum engineering    6. Petroleum industry and trade    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Petroleum & oil industries   

Subjects:  1. Aliphatic Chemistry    2. Asphaltene    3. Chemistry - General    4. Chemistry - Organic    5. Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical    6. Congresses    7. Engineering - General    8. Petroleum    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Colloid chemistry    13. Petroleum technology    14. Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical    15. Science-Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical    16. Surface chemistry & adsorption    17. Technology / Petroleum    18. Technology-Engineering - General   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Concrete Structures    3. Concrete construction    4. Construction - General    5. Design and construction    6. Engineering - Civil    7. Engineering - Hydraulic    8. Hydraulic Structures Design    9. Offshore structures    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Building construction & materials    13. Offshore engineering    14. Structural engineering   

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   

Subjects:  1. Development - Sustainable Development    2. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    3. Government - General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Petroleum    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Public Policy - Economic Policy    10. United States - 20th Century    11. History / United States / 20th Century    12. Petroleum & oil industries    13. Sustainability    14. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    15. USA   

Reviews (4)

English Not So Good
(1)Distillation:Flow rates only decrease as one goes up the columb not down as this text states.Distillation is driven by the reboiler not the condenser.(2) Chemical reaction equations don't balance

Well composed, detailed and knowledgable
The author does a good job in this book of explaining all that individuals in the petrochemical industry would like to know. This book is an excellent guidebook with well regarded diagrams and charts and a clear logical flow in material.
Refining Processes Handbook
Intelligent buy, all details for petrochemical and process engineers in simple language. Well descriptive flow chats and tech. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Petroleum    3. Refining    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Petroleum technology    8. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. General    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Chemicals    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Heavy chemicals    10. Petroleum technology    11. Production engineering    12. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    3. Engineering - General    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Refining    6. Refining    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Petroleum technology    11. Science / Geology   

Reviews (3)

Old reservoir engineering
I have read the book and found that it basically covers the state of the art of "classical" reservoir engineering of about the 60's or 70's, with some material taken from papers published in the 80's and 90's. It is outdated to a great extent. Great book to find all basic topics on reservoir engineering
I've seen that all topics on reservoir engineering have been covered in sufficient detail and very systematically.I strongly reccommed the book to those looking for a starting book on reservoir engineering and to those who, after a while, got lost among SPE papers and specialized books to come back to the backbone of the issue.

All the Fundamentals Are Covered
This book is comprehensive and great for practical application.Has a guide for predicting oil reservoir performance from analysis of oil recovery mechanisms and performance calculations. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Gas reservoirs    3. Oil fields    4. Oil reservoir engineering    5. Petroleum    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Dams & reservoirs    10. Technology / Engineering / General   

Reviews (2)

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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From an OPEC country ...
Excellent book, easy to read for petroleum engineers yet quite insightful and nicely presented. A great deal of references are useful to direct further reading, this book became my preferred reference in petroleum geology. Highly recommendable. From the Titan of petroleum!
This second edition surveys the science of petroleum geology.It describes the generation, migration, and entrapment of oil and gas, and outlines the procedures used in their location, evaluation, and production. The topics, appropriate for the geology student (and cyber-cadet seekingabiogenic petroleum anywhere in the universe), include requisite basicmaterial from the fields of petroleum engineering and geophysics. The eightcolour plates are packed with useful information.Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Engineering - General    3. Geology    4. Natural Resources    5. Natural gas    6. Petroleum    7. Petroleum Geology    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Petroleum technology    12. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical   

Reviews (1)

Need formulas in the middle of the night
Norton Lapeyrouse has done a good job accumulating those hard to formulas that you need in the middle of the night. We have all been on location and needed to calculate some aspect in drilling of a well and can't rememberthe exact formula. Well this book has just about everything you want. Itranks up there with Service Company's Tech Facts books and a more. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Engineering - General    3. Management    4. Mathematics    5. Oil wells    6. Petroleum    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Mathematics / General    11. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    12. Mining technology & engineering    13. Petroleum technology   

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A nice trip
Thank you Doug Terry for telling me that triggerfish won't chew my earlobes off!I actually had a nightmare over that one!
Just a little too guilty of a pleasure
Mix one part Rodney the Shark Guy, one part Ted Nugent, and two parts your uncle who always seems to have those tall tales, and you wind up with this wild ride through the spear-fishing haunts of Humberto Fontova.
I couldn't put it down!!!
This is probably one of the most enjoyable books I have read in the last five years. The author and his cohorts are definitely brave, almost certainly missing a few screws and possibly suicidal, but they enjoy what they are doing so much that after a while the insanity of it all doesn't seem to matter. Stories about divers diving with football helmets so they don't get knocked out on the steel beams of the oil rig and the stalking of sharks (!!) in the opaque murk at the bottom of the sea floor would seem farcical or just stupid coming from almost anyone else, but when Fontova writes it is riveting, believable and also hilarious.
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Subjects:  1. Drilling platforms    2. Fishing - General    3. Mexico, Gulf of    4. Scuba & Snorkeling    5. Scuba diving    6. Spear fishing    7. Sports    8. Sports & Recreation    9. Water Sports    10. Sports & Outdoor Recreation   

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Excellent text for a working Process Engineer
As a Process Engineer, working in both operations and design in the upstream oil industry, it is pleasing to find a text that finally covers all the unit operations you are likely to encounter in oil processing. The book is an easy read that doesn't get weighed down in first principles. This means that you can quickly get the information you require and have confidence in your decisions. It's a must for anyone working in the industry, especially those who may be offshore, I always have my copy with me.

Surface Process Equipment
This book is very useful for both Process and non process engineers working in the field and finding all kinds of surface equipment. The relation between the equipment is also very important while customeradvising because process engineering in Latin America is kind of a gameeach one plays by his own criteria and having a great weakness on equipmentavailability. Lets say that general rules does not apply, but with theguidance of this book is very easy to understand why things happen and howdecisions affect production fields operations. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Industrial    2. Equipment and supplies    3. General    4. Oil fields    5. Petroleum    6. Petroleum Drilling    7. Petroleum engineering    8. Production methods    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Petroleum technology    13. Technology / Petroleum   

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

Subjects:  1. Chemistry - Industrial & Technical    2. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    3. Engineering - Civil    4. Petroleum    5. Refining    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Chemistry    10. Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Management    3. Management - Teams    4. Oil fields    5. Petroleum    6. Petroleum industry and trade    7. Production methods    8. Reference    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Heat transfer processes    13. Petroleum technology    14. Production & quality control management   

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   

Reviews (4)

real value @ $7.95
this book is nothing that couldn't be found in any piping book, and at $(...), it is not worth buying. IPT's Pipe Trades Handbook by Robert A. Lee is 10 times this book at $(...).

You promised 50 points for first reviewer, didn,t you?
Sorry, this is not a review. I have already written a review. As a first reviewer, I was promised 50 bonus points.Please let me know what happened about that? Sorry for addressing you in this way, but I did not know other way to look for that. A very useful source of data in the same place
Another useful pocket guide for a wide range of professionals: process andmechanical engineers, designers, shop foremen, piping fitters andassemblers. A large number of data on flanges, piping, and fittings willcertainly save a precious time looking for data in piles of differentsources. It deserves to find its place among handful manuals to be at handin every given point of time. Of course, one can not find in the book allinformation he might need. Nevertheless, this is the best source of data onthe given subject I have ever come across so far. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Flanges    3. Handbooks, manuals, etc    4. Petroleum    5. Pipe    6. Pipe fittings    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Mechanical engineering    11. Technology / Petroleum