Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production

✍ Scribed by Frank Jahn, Mark Cook and Mark Graham (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Series: Developments in Petroleum Science 46
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text aims to provide an insight into all the major stages in the life of an oil or gas field; from exploration, through appraisal, development planning, production, and finally to decommissioning. With a comprehensive introduction to the upstream industry; useful for industry professionals who wish to be better informed about the basic methods, concepts and technology used. It is also intended for readers not directly working in oil and gas companies but who are providing related support services. This volume should help the reader to understand the major technical and business considerations which make up each part of the life of a typical oil or gas field, and to demonstrate the link between the many disciplines involved.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Principal authors
Page xi

Introduction
Page 1

1.0 The field life cycle
Pages 3-8

2.0 Exploration
Pages 9-27

3.0 Drilling engineering
Pages 29-63

4.0 Safety and the environment
Pages 65-74

5.0 Reservoir description
Pages 75-152

6.0 Volumetric estimation
Pages 153-171

7.0 Field appraisal
Pages 173-182

8.0 Reservoir dynamic behaviour
Pages 183-211

9.0 Well dynamic behaviour
Pages 213-234

10.0 Surface facilities
Pages 235-275

11.0 Production operations and maintenance
Pages 277-290

12.0 Project and contract management
Pages 291-301

13.0 Petroleum economics
Pages 303-329

14.0 Managing the producing field
Pages 331-349

15.0 Managing decline
Pages 351-364

16.0 Decommissioning
Pages 365-371

Selected bibliography
Page 373

Index
Pages 375-384

✦ Subjects

Нефтегазовая промышленность;Нефтегазовое дело;