Rules of thumb for petroleum engineers / James G. Speight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speight, James G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (780 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Beverly, Massachusetts ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Scrivener Publishing : Wiley, 2017.

Summary:

The most comprehensive and thorough reference work available for petroleum engineers of all levels. Finally, there is a one-stop reference book for the petroleum engineer which offers practical, easy-to-understand responses to complicated technical questions. This is a must-have for any engineer or non-engineer working in the petroleum industry, anyone studying petroleum engineering, or any reference library. Written by one of the most well-known and prolific petroleum engineering writers who has ever lived, this modern classic is sure to become a staple of any engineer's library and a handy reference in the field. Whether open on your desk, on the hood of your truck at the well, or on an offshore platform, this is the only book available that covers the petroleum engineer's rules of thumb that have been compiled over decades. Some of these "rules, " until now, have been "unspoken but everyone knows, " while others are meant to help guide the engineer through some of the more recent breakthroughs in the industry's technology, such as hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery. The book covers every aspect of crude oil, natural gas, refining, recovery, and any other area of petroleum engineering that is useful for the engineer to know or to be able to refer to, offering practical solutions to everyday engineering problems and a comprehensive reference work that will stand the test of time and provide aid to its readers. If there is only one reference work you buy in petroleum engineering, this is it.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

About the Author

Abrasion

Absorption

Acid Gas Removal

Acid Gas Scrubbing

Acid Number

Acid Rain

Acid-Base Catalysts

Acidity and Alkalinity

Acidizing

Adsorption

Adsorption Isotherm

Adulteration

Air Emissions

Alcohol Blended Fuels

Alcohols

Alicyclic Hydrocarbons

Aliphatic Hydrocarbons

Alloys - Composition

Amine Absorber

Amine Condenser

Amine Washing

Ammonia

Aniline Point

Anticline

Antoine Equation

API Gravity

Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Asphalt Manufacture

Asphaltene Constituents

Associated Natural Gas

Atmospheric Equivalent Boiling Point

Auto-ignition Temperature

Barrel

Baumé Gravity

Benchmark Crude Oil

Bernoulli's Principle

Biomass and Biofuels

Bitumen

Bituminous Rock and Bituminous Sand

Black Acids

Black Oil

Blending and Mixing

Boiling Point and Boiling Range

Brine

Bubble Point and Bubble Point Pressure

Bureau of Mines Correlation Index

Calorific Value

Capillary Forces

Capillary Number

Capillary Pressure

Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Number and Possible Isomers

Carbonate Reservoir

Carbonate Washing and Water Washing

Catalyst Pore Diameter

Catalytic Materials

Catalytic Reforming

Cementation Value

Cetane Index

Characterization Factor

Chemical Reaction Rates

Chemicals Reactive with Water

Chemometrics

Clausius Equation and Clausius-Clapeyron Equation

Coal - General Properties

Coke Yield from Conradson Carbon

Common Acronyms

Common Names of Selected Chemical Compounds

Common Unit Conversions

Commonly Used Constants

Compressibility

Coning

Conversion Charts

Conversion Factors

Correlation Index

Corrosion

Corrosion - Fuel Ash

Corrosion - Naphthenic Acid.

Cricondenbar

Cricondentherm

Critical Properties

Critical Temperatures of Gases

Crude Oil - Assay

Crude Oil - Classification

Crude Oil - Desalting

Crude Oil - Distillation

Crude Oil - Fractional Composition

Crude Oil - Hydrotreating

Crude Oil - Molecular Composition

Crude Oil - Primary Recovery

Crude Oil - Recovery

Crude Oil - Refining

Crude Oil - Residua

Crude Oil - Sampling and Analysis

Crude Oil - Secondary Recovery

Crude Oil - Tertiary Recovery

Crude Oil from Tight Formations

Darcy and Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media

Darcy's Law

Decimal Multipliers for SI Prefixes

Decline Curve Evaluation

Delivery Point

Density, Specific Gravity, and API Gravity

Density-Boiling Point Constant

Determining Depreciation

Dew Point Temperature and Pressure

Dielectric Constant

Dielectric Loss and Power Factor

Diesel Index

Dipole Moment

Distillation

Distillation - Flooding

Distillation - Gap-Overlap

Drilling Fluid

Drilling Fluid Additives

E85 Fuel

Embrittlement

Embrittlement - Hydrogen

Emulsion

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Environmental Regulations

Evaporation

Expansion and Contraction of Solids

Explosive Limits

Fire Point

Fischer-Tropsch Chemistry

Flammability and Flammability Limits

Flash Point

Flow Through Porous Media

Fluid Catalytic Cracking - Chemistry

Fluid Flow Fundamentals

Fluid Flow Through Permeable Media

Fluid Flow

Fluid Saturation

Foamy Oil

Formation Volume Factor

Fouling

Fracturing Fluids

Fuel Oil

Functional Groups

Fundamental Physical Constants

Gas Deviation Factor

Gas Formation Volume Factor

Gas Laws

Gas Processing - Hydrogen Sulfide Conversion

Gas Processing - Metal Oxide Processes

Gas Processing - Olamine Processes

Gas Processing - Sweetening.

Gas Processing - Absorption and Adsorption Processes

Gas Processing - Acid Gas Removal

Gas Processing - Carbonate and Water Washing Processes

Gas Processing - Catalytic Oxidation Processes

Gas Processing - Fractionation

Gas Processing - Gas-Oil Separation

Gas Processing - Liquids Removal

Gas Processing - Methanol-Based Processes

Gas Processing - Molecular Sieve Processes

Gas Processing - Nitrogen Removal

Gas Processing - Physical Solvent Processes

Gas Processing - Plant Schematic and Products

Gas Processing - Processes and Process Selection

Gas Processing - Water Removal

Gas Solubility

Gas-Condensate Reservoirs

Gaseous Fuels

Gaseous Hydrocarbons - General Properties

Gasification - Chemistry

Gasification - Refinery Resids

Gas-Liquid Solubility

Gas-Oil Ratio

Gas-Oil Separation

Gasoline - Component Streams

Gas-to-Liquids

Geological Time Scale

Geothermal Gradient

Glycol

Grease

Greek Alphabet

Hazardous Chemicals

Hazardous Waste

Heat Capacity

Heat Content of Petroleum Products

Heat Exchangers

Heat of Combustion of Petroleum Fuels

Heat Transfer Coefficient

Heat Transfer - Convection and Conduction

Heating Value

Heavy Feedstock Conversion - Thermal Processes

Heterogeneity

Heterogeneous Catalysis and Homogeneous Catalysis

High-Acid Crudes

Hydrate Formation and Prevention

Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydrocarbon Gases - Physical Constants

Hydroconversion

Hydrogen Chloride

Hydrogen in Refineries

Hydrogen Sulfide Conversion

Hydrogen Sulfide

Hydrogen

Hydrostatic Pressure

Ideal Gas

Improved Oil Recovery Processes

Incompatible Chemicals

Ionic Liquids

Isothermal Compressibility of Oil

Kinematic Viscosity.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Liquid-Gas Separators

Lubricants - Classification

Lubricating Oil - Base Stock

M85

Marx-Langenheim Model

Material Balance

Mean Density - Gas-Air Mixture

Metals Content and FCC Coke Production

Methane

Molecular Weight of Petroleum Fractions

Naphthenic Acids - Corrosion in Distillation Units

Naphthenic Acids - Mitigating Corrosion

Naphthenic Acids

Natural Gas - Associated

Natural Gas - Composition

Natural Gas - Compressibility

Natural Gas - Measurement

Natural Gas - Nonassociated

Natural Gas - Properties

Natural Gas - Specific Gravity

Natural Gas - Phase Behavior

Natural Gas - Sweetening

Natural Gasoline

Nitrogen and Nitrogen Oxide Gases

Nonassociated Natural Gas

Octane Barrel Yield

Octane Number

Oil and Gas from Tight Formations

Oil and Gas Originally in Place

Oil Recovery Factor

Oil Shale - General Classification

Oilfield Chemicals

Olamine Processes

Olamine

On-Stream Factor

Opportunity Crudes

Organic Compounds - Physical and Thermochemical Data

Organic Solvents

Oxygen

Ozone

Paraffin Hydrocarbons

Particle Size Classification

Permeability

Petrochemicals

Petroleum Products - Heat Content

Petroleum Products

Phase Behavior

Polychlorobiphenyls

Porosity

Prefixes

Pressure Conversion

Principal Component Analysis

Process System

Product Blending

Production Engineering Units

Productivity Index

Proppants

PVT Properties

Rate of Reaction

Reactor Types

Recovery Methods

Refinery Feedstocks - Corrosive Constituents

Refinery Gas

Refinery Types

Refinery Units - Materials of Construction and Operating Conditions

Refractive Index and Specific Refraction

Relative Density

Relative Permeability

Relative Volatility.

Reserves - Estimation

Reserves

Reservoir Crude Oil

Reservoir - Drive Mechanisms

Reservoir Pressure

Reservoir - Types and Classification

Reservoir

Resid Upgrading Technologies

Resource Estimation

Retrograde Condensate Systems

Retrograde Condensation

Reynolds Number

Rock Types

SARA Analysis

Saturated Steam

Saturation

Sediments, Reservoirs, and Deposits

Separators - Gas-Oil Separation

Shale Gas Formation

Shale Gas Reservoirs - Variation in Shale Properties

Shale Gas - Variations in Composition

Shale Oil (Kerogen-Derived Oil) - Variation in Properties

Shale Plays - Properties

SI - International System of Units

Solubility Parameter

Solvents

Specific Gravity

Specific Heat

Stress-Corrosion Cracking

Sulfur Dioxide

Sulfur Material Balance

Supercritical Fluids

Surface Tension

Sweetening Processes

Synthesis Gas

Tar Sand

Test Methods

Thermal Conductivity

Thermal Cracking Processes

Tight Formations

Unit Process

Vapor Density

Vapor Pressure

Viscosity

Viscosity Index

Viscosity of Petroleum Fractions

Viscosity-Gravity Constant

Volume Flow Rate

Volumetric Evaluation

Volumetric Factors

Water - Boiling Point Variation with Pressure

Water -Common Impurities

Water - Density and Viscosity in Relation to Temperature

Water Saturation

Watson Characterization Factor

Weights and Measures - Density

Weights and Measures - Fuels

Weights and Measures - General

Well Casing

Wellbore Stability Analysis

Wettability

Wobbe Index

Working Gas

Bibliography and Information Sources

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119403630

1119403634

9781523114702

1523114703

9781119403647

1119403642

9781119403623

1119403626

OCLC:

974583537