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The oil & gas industry : a nontechnical guide

Hilyard, Joseph.
Publisher: PennWell,
Pub date: c2012.
Pages: xvi, 315 p. :
ISBN: 9781593702540

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Lakeland College - Lloydminster Campus Library
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HD 9560.5 H5125 2012 1 Book On Shelf
University of Alberta - Rutherford Library
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HD 9560.5 H5125 2012 1 Book On Shelf
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The oil & gas industry : a nontechnical guide
    Hilyard, Joseph.
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The oil & gas industry : a nontechnical guide
    Hilyard, Joseph.
Personal Author: Hilyard, Joseph.
Title: The oil & gas industry : a nontechnical guide / Joseph F. Hilyard.
Publication info: Tulsa, Okla. : PennWell, c2012.
Physical description: xvi, 315 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Content type: text txt
Media type: unmediated n
Carrier type: volume nc
Variant title: Oil and gas industry
Subject term: Petroleum industry and trade.
Subject term: Petroleum engineering.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293) and index.
Contents: Origins of oil and gas -- Oil overview -- Natural gas overview -- Searching for and evaluating oil and gas -- Drilling and completion : onshore -- Drilling and completion : offshore -- Managing oil and gas production -- Transporting oil -- Transporting natural gas by pipeline -- Transporting natural gas as LNG -- Converting oil into products -- Converting natural gas into products -- Petroleum industry structure -- Petroleum trading -- Emerging challenges for the petroleum industry.
Summary: Joseph Hilyard's timely new book provides a broad perspective on the oil and gas industry, with primary attention to the United States. It takes the reader on a tour of the operations used to find and evaluate resources, and then to produce, store and deliver oil and gas. The book's main focus is primarily on the equipment and processes used in exploring new resources; evaluating promising formations; drilling wells; managing oil and gas production; converting oil and gas into products; and transporting oil and gas. Separate chapters address the evolution and current structure of the petroleum industry; oil and gas trading; and challenges likely to face the oil and gas industry in coming years.
ISBN: 9781593702540
ISBN: 159370254X
key: 5909370
LCCN: 2012007391