Petroleum Engineering Handbook
Subtitle: Sustainable Operations
Publisher: Gulf Publishing Company
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781933762128
Subjects: Petroleum & oil industries; Sustainability; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Petroleum; Engineering - Hydraulic; Engineering - Industrial; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Petroleum engineering
Description: Description: 
 
This is the first book in the petroleum sector to shed light on the real obstacles to sustainable development.  Supplying a step by step guideline for efficient management skills, in both upstream and downstream divisions, this manual clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is dimished.  

Going beyond drilling and production, the entire petroleum operations cycle is covered in this book starting with exploration all the way through to refining and gas processing.  These world-renowned authors present a new management method to all hydrocarbon operations that is environmentally acceptable, economically profitable and socially responsible.  Presenting these new applicable concepts, methods and guidelines helps petroleum engineers and manger reach true sustainability in their technology, development and opeerations.  Readers will learn how to:

Prove that the current exploration practices can be rendered environmentally acceptable 
Consider practical drilling alternatives 
Achieve zero-waste oil production as well as production operations that use a no-chemicals approach 
Propose converting waste liabilities into assets as a general principle of waste management 
Examine transportation, refining and processing subjects as well as other alternatives to various toxic chemicals 
Solve issues surrounding offshore rigs with a number of elaborated pro-nature techniques
Notes: Book News Annotation:
Khan (Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Calgary, Canada) and Islam (civil and resource engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada) supply step-by-step guidelines for efficient and sustainable management in upstream and downstream divisions of petroleum operations. Going beyond drilling and production, the entire petroleum operations cycle is covered, from exploration through refining and gas processing. An early chapter offers guidelines for managerial decision making leading towards sustainable practices. Subsequent chapters cover exploration operations, drilling and production, sustainable waste management, reservoir engineering and secondary recovery, enhanced oil recovery operations, transportation and processing and refining operations, and decommissioning of drilling and production facilities. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; The New Management Guidelines; Exploration Opeerations; Drilling and Production Operations; Sustainable Wate Management; Reservoir Engineering and Secondary Recovery; Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Operations; Transportation, Processing and refining Operations; Decommissioning of Drilling and Production Facilities; Summary and Conclusions.