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Fundamentally boring
The read of this book compares to reading an Encyclopedia, a very long, fact heavy, read. Having said that the books works as a reference guide. If you need to quickly refresh yourself on the various methods of welding this book is good. If you're sitting down by the pool to educate yourself on a pipeline, this book is not for you. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Natural gas pipelines    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Engineering (General)    5. Petroleum pipelines    6. Pipeline Engineering    7. Reference    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Gas industries    12. Petroleum & oil industries   

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Almost unusable
Book is okay for basic formulas (i.e. heads and shells) but forget about using it for anything more.Even experienced engineers have a difficult time following some of the equations.Probably usable for a very experienced pressure vessel designer, but not recommended for anyone else.

Good reference book, but beware.
It is a good reference book to have. Avoid unless you have significant design experiance!
Although this book has "illustrated procedures for solving major pressure vessel design problems" it is full of errors and typos.Although the second edition has clarified many of the problems in the first edition, the procedures are unclear and significantly flawed.In addition, there are several instances where Mr. Moss fails to define the conditions in which certain equations should be, and should not be used.Unless you have significant experience in designing pressure vessels, avoid this book, it will only cause frustration and poorly designed units. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Engineering - Hydraulic    3. Engineering - Mechanical    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Manufacturing    6. Petroleum    7. Pressure vessels    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Petroleum technology    12. Precision instruments manufacture    13. Technology / Petroleum   

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Well testing with a practical focus
Most books on well testing are very academic oriented with abundant and laborious mathematical derivations and little or no indication of their use in the real world. This book by Horne is not like that. I am not a PhD student and very often do not have the time to go through lots of partial differential equations to find what I need. This is the only book on this topic which provides me quick indications of what to look at to do a quick evaluation of a well test.
Excellent text
This book is an excellent well testing textbook.It is ideal foruse in undergraduate and graduate classes as well as for practicing engineers.Anyone with an interest in well testing should have a copy of this book of his/her shelf. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Petroleum    4. Power Resources    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Natural Gas    3. Petroleum    4. Power Resources    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Gas industries    9. Gas technology    10. Reference works   

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H 2 brute'?
This more like a high school paper gone wrong than a serious book for adults. Typical of the nonsense circulating around lately regarding Hydrogen as an alternate fuel.Poor science, terrible reading......Does not factually deal with the real issues such as cost of distribution, storage and gasification.An insult to any reader with a brain.

what the Hydrogen Revolution is about
This book has been in publication since 1985?That is quite impressive that he started thinking about this stuff way back then.I can't believe all the negative feedback and this book is in it's 11th edition.If there are so many errors and everyone has the time to write about it here don't you think you could send the author a little note?Like "Hey Mikey, photovoltaic cells are made of silicon and implants are made of Silicone."The book is good as a rough start, I'll admit it has been very helpful to me - a professional engineer.Yes the facts and calculations need to be checked but what facts and calculations don't need to be checked?The web sites out there dealing with this stuff are either so simple that a 5 year old could understand or so in-depth that only someone very familiar with the technology could understand the tradeoffs.This book does a great job at bridging those gaps.With that said, good Job Mikey and to everyone else - if you don't like something fix it, or shut up that's what the Hydrogen Revolution is about people fixing something they don't like.

Poorlywrittencollegepaper in form ofcheap book
This is anold college technical paper, put together to look like a book.Read more

Subjects:  1. Automotive - Customizing    2. Engineering - Automotive    3. Hydrogen as fuel    4. Petroleum    5. Power Resources    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Water as fuel    10. Fiction / General    11. Mathematics and Science    12. Science: General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Engineering - General    3. Hydraulic fracturing    4. Oil wells    5. Petroleum    6. Petroleum Drilling    7. Rock Mechanics    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Fossil fuel technologies    12. Hydraulics & pneumatics    13. Technology / Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Engineering - General    3. Geology    4. Mathematical Statistics    5. Mathematics    6. Petroleum    7. Probability & Statistics - General    8. Quantitative Geology    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Statistical methods    11. Statistics    12. Mathematical modelling    13. Petrology    14. Probability & statistics    15. Technology / Petroleum   

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

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Petroleum    3. Reference    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Energy conversion & storage   

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Key Distinctions
Francis Fukuyama, in an important slender volume, sees nation building as the process of helping to ". . .create self-sustaining democratic political institutions and robust market-oriented economies. . . ."He draws a critical distinction between "nation building" and "state building."The former refers to ". . .creating or repairing all the cultural, social, and historical ties that bind people together as a nation."The latter, in contrast, aims at ". . .creating or strengthening such government institutions as armies, police forces, judiciaries, central banks, tax-collection agencies, health and education systems, and the like."The two are not the same--but are interdependent one upon the other.
An apologetic defense from a neo-con theorist
This book seems like an introductory political science book but its language is simple enough for a general audience to understand. Everyone who has an interest in the political background and details of the current World events can find a lot of interesting discussions.
Key distinction
One of the main contributions of this book is the underappreciated distinction between state-building and nation-building.Anyone interested in democractic nation-building ought to consider reading this volume.A clear analysis with obvious implications for American policy in places like Iraq.This is part of an increasing body of work on nation building that, collectively taken together, provides a good handle on the difficulties in creating democracy where previously there was none (and see the work of Paris, Dobbins, Somit, etc.) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History & Theory - General    2. International Relations - General    3. Middle East - General    4. National state    5. Petroleum    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. State, The    10. 21st century    11. Middle East    12. Political structure & processes   

Subjects:  1. Industrial Health & Safety    2. Oil storage tanks    3. Petroleum    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Mathematics and Science    8. Reference works    9. Steel    10. Technology / Petroleum    11. Technology-Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Maintenance and repair    4. Petroleum    5. Pipelines    6. Piping    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Service life (Engineering)    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Mechanical engineering    12. Petroleum technology    13. Technology / Petroleum   

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Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East
Provide me the fundamental of Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East up to date. Good for academic reference as well as professional work. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - General    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Geology    4. Geology, Structural    5. Middle East    6. Natural Resources    7. Nature    8. Petroleum    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Sedimentary basins    12. Petroleum geology    13. Sedimentary rocks    14. Technology / Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Engineering - Mechanical    3. Engineering Fluid Mechanics    4. General    5. Hydraulic fluids    6. Lubrication    7. Machinery    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Synthetic lubricants    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Mechanics of fluids    13. Petroleum technology    14. Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial   

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Good Cook Book for Engineer (OIL&GAS)
This is very valuable book to have and to share for/with PetroleumEngineers and Geologist, Field Engineer alsowho want to know more of theWireline Company for the product and services in Oll and Gas production.This book gained a lot of information in Cased Hole reservoirwith clearexplanation for tool specification and adventages.Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Oil well logging    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Drilling    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Mathematics for scientists & engineers    10. Petroleum geology   

Subjects:  1. Petroleum    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Technology & Industrial Arts   

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Great book with minor binding defect
This is a great classic reference in the area of Reservoir Engineering that can be recommended to anyone working in the area.
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Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Mining    3. Petroleum    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Petroleum geology    8. Petroleum technology    9. Technology / Petroleum   

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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

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries    2. Mining    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Engineering (General)    5. Petroleum engineering    6. Reference    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Offshore engineering    11. Petroleum & oil industries    12. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Chemical Engineering Safety    2. Chemical engineering    3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Petroleum    6. Safety measures    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies    11. Technology / Petroleum