The Petroleum Handbook
6th Edition
Published on 1. December 1986
729 pages
978-0-444-60007-3 (ISBN)
Description
Those connected with the petroleum industry will need no introduction to The Petroleum Handbook. It is a technically-oriented manual whose aim is to provide explanations of the processes of today's petroleum industry, from crude oil exploration to product end use, with some historical background and explanation of the economic context in which the oil, gas and petrochemical businesses operation. Much of the material in this sixth edition is completely new and includes the latest information on world oil and gas reserves, future prospects, transportation, storage, refining, marketing, research, and environmental conservation.
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Content
- Front Cover
- The Petroleum Handbook
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The world petroleum industry
- Petroleum
- The significance of oil and gas
- The oil industry today
- Future prospects
- Projection of future energy requirements
- The financial implications of the energy prospect
- The petroleum industry and the future
- Chapter 2. Oil and gas in the centrally planned economies
- Their significance
- Oil development in the USSR
- Soviet natural gas resources
- Future prospects for oil and gas in the USSR
- Soviet energy exports
- China
- Chapter 3. Exploration and production
- Introduction
- Exploration
- Production
- Engineering drilling and production operations
- Economic financial and other aspects of exploration and production activities
- World oil and gas reserves
- Chapter 4. The chemistry of petroleum
- Introduction
- Hydrocarbons
- Non-hydrocarbons
- Hydrocarbon reactions
- Types of crude oil
- Chapter 5. Oil products-Manufacture
- Manufacturing activities
- Distillation
- Solvent extraction
- Crystallisation and adsorption
- Reforming
- Isomerisation
- Thermal cracking
- Catalytic cracking
- Hydrocracking
- Alkylation
- Polymerisation
- Hydrotreating
- Gasoline treating
- Kerosine treating
- Gas treating and sulphur recovery
- Treating of base oils
- Bitumen blowing
- Energy management in refineries
- Process control and systems technology
- Protecting the environment
- Safety
- Static electricity in petrolum liquids
- Chapter 6. Marketing of oil products
- Marketing organisation
- Distribution and storage of oil products
- Planning a distribution system
- Oil products application specification and testing
- Chapter 7. Transportation-Marine and pipelines
- Marine
- Pipelines
- Chapter 8. Natural gas and gas liquids
- What is natural gas
- Exploration and production
- World reserves
- Consumption of natural gas
- Transport of natural gas
- LNG shipping and terminalling
- Distribution and marketing
- Development of the international gas trade
- Natural gas liquids and gas-derived liquid fuels
- The future
- Chapter 9. Oil supply and trading
- Introduction
- Factors and constraints in oil supply
- The oil supply scene post-1973: fragmented with diminishing flexibility
- The supply system in the early 1980s
- Chapter 10. Petrochemicals
- The origin of petrochemicals
- The importance of petrochemicals
- Manufacture
- The future
- Chapter 11. Unconventional raw materials and synfuels
- Introduction
- Characteristics of unconventional raw materials
- Characteristics of synfuels
- The status of the technology
- Ranking the options
- Future outlook
- Chapter 12. Research and development
- Introduction
- Exploration and production
- Manufacturing
- Oil products
- Chemical processes and products
- Natural gas
- Transport storage and handling
- Basic research and new technologies
- Patents
- Chapter 13. Environmental conservation
- Introduction
- Exploration and production
- Transportation and storage of crude oil and gas
- Oil refineries and petrochemical plants
- Distribution and marketing
- Industry associations
- Note on units of measurement in the world energy industry
- Glossary
- Subject Index
