Oil & Gas Engineering Books

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology (2nd Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:27:00 +0000

by Heinz P. Bloch

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Pages: 574
Publication Date: 2006-09-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471727938
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471727934
Book Description:
A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenance
This text offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors. The author examines a wide spectrum of compressors used in heavy process industries, with an emphasis on improving reliability and avoiding failure. Readers learn both the theory underlying compressors as well as the myriad day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address.
The text features:
- Latest design and manufacturing details of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors
- Examination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industries
- Thorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressors
- Guidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliability
- Monitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery condition
- Systematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement concepts
- Fluid instability and externally pressurized bearings
- Reliability-driven asset management strategies for compressors
- Upstream separator and filter issues
The text's structure is carefully designed to build knowledge and skills by starting with key principles and then moving to more advanced material. Hundreds of photos depicting various types of compressors, components, and processes are provided throughout.
Compressors often represent a multi-million dollar investment for such applications as petrochemical processing and refining, refrigeration, pipeline transport, and turbochargers and superchargers for internal combustion engines. This text enables the broad range of engineers and plant managers who work with these compressors to make the most of the investment by leading them to the best decisions for selecting, operating, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

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Surface Production Operations, Volume 2

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Second Edition: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities

By Ken Arnold, Maurice Stewart

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Number Of Pages: 574
Publication Date: 1999-08-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0884158225
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780884158226

Product Description:

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips. The authors channeled their classroom and field experience into this volume, which features many new sections such as:

* Heat recovery units
* Kinetic inhibitors and anti-agglomerators
* Trays and packing for distillation and absorption towers
* Compressor valves
* Foundation design considerations for reciprocating compressors
* Pressure vessel issues and components
* Nox reduction in engines and turbines
* Safety management systems

This book walks you through the equipment and processes used in gas-handling operations to help you design and manage a production facility. Production engineers will keep this volume on the desktop for the latest information on how to DESIGN, SPECIFY, and OPERATE gas-handling systems and facilities. The book allows engineers with little or background in production facility design to easily locate details about equipment, processes, and design parameters. With this volume, you will more completely comprehend the techniques of handling produced fluids from gas wells so your facility can be more efficient and productive.

* Revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems at your fingertips
* Features brand new sections!

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Compressors, Third Edition: Selection and Sizing

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:13:00 +0000

By Royce N. Brown
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2005-06-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750675454
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750675451

Product Description:

This practical reference provides in-depth information required to understand and properly estimate compressor capabilities and to select the proper designs. Engineers and students will gain a thorough understanding of compression principles, equipment, applications, selection, sizing, installation, and maintenance. The many examples clearly illustrate key aspects to help readers understand the "real world" of compressor technology.

Compressors: Selection and Sizing, third edition is completely updated with new API standards. Additions requested by readers include a new section on diaphragm compressors in the reciprocating compressors chapter, and a new section on rotor dynamics stability in the chapter on diaphragm compressors.

The latest technology is presented in the areas of efficiency, 3-D geometry, electronics, CAD, and the use of plant computers. The critical chapter on negotiating the purchase of a compressor now reflects current industry practices for preparing detailed specifications, bid evaluations, engineering reviews, and installation. A key chapter compares the reliability of various types of compressors.

* Everything you need to select the right compressor for your specific application.

* Practical information on compression principles, equipment, applications, selection, sizing, installation, and maintenance.

* New sections on diaphragm compressors and an introduction to rotor dynamics stability.

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Compressor Handbook

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Description:

The benchmark guide for compressor technology pros. You don't have to scour piles of technical literature for compressor answers any longer. This book packs all the answers on design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of compressors straight from top experts on these widely used machines.

Offers answers to a comprehensive collection of questions on the design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of all types of compressors. Shows how to design or select compressors for any use, with step-by-step procedures for fewer flaws or errors.

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Relative Permeability of Petroleum Reservoirs

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:01:00 +0000

By Mehdi Matt Honarpour, Leonard F. Koederitz, A. Herbert Harvey

Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: 1986-01-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 084935739X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780849357398

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Petroleum Engineering: Principles and Practice

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:54:00 +0000

by J.S. Archer, C.G. Wall

Publisher: Springer

Number Of Pages: 350
Publication Date: 1986-06-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0860106659
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780860106654

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Petroleum Engineering Handbook

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:51:00 +0000

by H. B. Bradley (Editor)

Publisher: Society of Petroleum
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 1987-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1555630103
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781555630102

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Petroleum Products Handbook

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:44:00 +0000

By Virgil B. Guthrie (Author)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (December 1960)
ISBN-10: 0070252955
ISBN-13: 978-0070252950

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Handbook of Natural Gas Transmission and Processing

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:26:00 +0000

By Saeid Mokhatab William A. Poe James G. Speight

Summary:

Because natural gas is just that-a gas-it is very difficult to collect, transmit, and process, unlike liquids. You can feel, see, and handle liquids, but not gas. Due to the very bright future of this expanding industry, more books are needed on the shelves of petroleum engineers who are moving from oil to natural gas markets. Most drilling and petroleum engineers were not schooled specifically as "petroleum engineers," and this creates a dearth of knowledge and expertise in the industrial literature. This gap is usually handled in intracompany ways, through mentoring, company guidelines, and rules of thumb. This book is the "must have" information for the industry today.

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Gas Turbine Performance

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:19:00 +0000

By Philip P. Walsh Paul Fletcher

Table of Contents

Foreword to the first edition
Preface
Gas turbine engine configurations 1
1 Gas turbine engine applications 9
2 The operational envelope 61
3 Properties and charts for dry air, combustion products and other working fluids 102
4 Dimensionless, quasidimensionless, referred and scaling parameter groups 143
5 Gas turbine engine components 159
6 Design point performance and engine concept design 292
7 Off design performance 383
8 Transient performance 444
9 Starting 477
10 Windmilling 501
11 Engine performance testing 519
12 The effects of water - liquid, steam and ice 564
13 Fuel and oil properties and their impact 587
14 Performance of in-service products 599
15 Performance and the economics of gas turbine engines 607
App. A Station numbering and nomenclature 617
App. B: Unit conversions 625
Index 631

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Oil Field Chemicals

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:13:00 +0000

By: Fink, Johannes Karl

Description:

Oil field chemicals are gaining increasing importance, as the resources of crude oil are decreasing. An increasing demand of more sophisticated methods in the exploitation of the natural resources emerges for this reason. This book reviews the progress in the area of oil field chemicals and additives of the last decade from a rather chemical view. The material presented is a compilation from the literature by screening critically approximately 20,000 references. The text is ordered according to applications, just in the way how the jobs are emerging in practice. It starts with drilling, goes to productions and ends with oil spill. Several chemicals are used in multiple disciplines, and to those separate chapters are devoted. Two index registers are available, an index of chemical substances and a general index.

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Offshore Blowouts: Causes and Control

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:02:00 +0000

Author/Editor: By: Holand, Per
Description:

Discover why more than 100 offshore well operations erupted into destructive blowouts, and learn how to prevent them. This book, based on the SINTEF Offshore Blowout Database, helps you avoid the unfortunate mistakes of others. It thoroughly investigates and explains the blowouts that occurred from 1980 to 1994 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.

You will learn which operations (drilling, completion, production, workover, wireline) were in progress at the onset of 124 different blowouts. This book also reveals the causes for the loss of the primary and secondary barriers and outline the fatal accident rates.

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Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers: A Complete Course in Case Studies

noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:14:00 +0000

Successful Trouble Shooting for Process Engineers: A Complete Course in Case Studies

by Donald R. Woods

Book Description:

Chemical production processes consist of many complex apparatuses involving both moving and static parts as well as interconnecting pipes, control mechanisms and electronics, mechanical and thermal stages, heat exchangers, waste and side product processing units, power ducts and many others. Bringing such a complicated unit online and ensuring its continued productivity requires substantial skill at anticipating, detecting and solving acute problems. This book is the professional's and student's entrance to the fascinating and important world of trouble shooting for chemical, pharmaceutical and other production processes.

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Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks

noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:17:00 +0000

Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks (Chemical Industries Series)
By Thomas R. Lynch
Book Description:

Advances in processing methods are not only improving the quality and yield of lubricant base stocks, they are also reducing the dependence on more expensive crude oil starting materials. Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks provides a comprehensive understanding of the chemistry behind the processes involved in petroleum base stock production from crude oil fractions.

This book examines hydroprocessing technologies that, driven by the demand for higher performance in finished lubricants, have transformed processing treatments throughout the industry. The author relates the properties of base stocks to their chemical composition and describes the process steps used in their manufacture. The book highlights catalytic processes, including hydrocracking, hydrofinishing, and catalytic dewaxing. It also covers traditional solvent-based separation methods used to remove impurities, enhance performance, and improve oxidation resistance. The final chapters discuss the production of Food Grade white oils and paraffins and the gas-to-liquids processes used to produce highly paraffinic base stocks via Fischer-Tropsch chemistry.

Process Chemistry of Lubricant Base Stocks provides historical and conceptual background to the technologies used to make base stocks, thorough references, and a unique emphasis on chemical, not just engineering, aspects of lubricant processingmaking this book an ideal and practical reference for scientists across a wide range of disciplines.

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Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing

noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:12:00 +0000

Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing
By Chang S. Hsu, Paul R. Robinson

Product Description:

Want to know how to make ULSD? Formulate a lube base stock? Clean up an oil spill? Optimize an entire refinery? From oil production to product blending, Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing provides general overviews and in-depth reference material on these topics and scores of others. When you want information on the chemistry and technology of oil refining, look here first. Even if you don?t find what you need in this book, most likely it will lead you to the answer you need; our 50 contributors from 8 different countries in North America, Europe and Asia have provided hundreds of useful references. They represent oil companies, universities, catalyst vendors, process licensors, consultants and engineering contractors.

The breadth of this two-volume book is unique. It covers areas seldom found in other works on petroleum processing. These include refinery economics, model-predictive control, process modeling, online optimization, safety! , and environmental protection.

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Troubleshooting Process Operations

noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Troubleshooting Process Operations
By Norman P. Lieberman

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noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:47:00 +0000

Thermal and Catalytic Processes in Petroleum Refining

By Serge Raseev
Book Description:

This text examines the thermal and catalytic processes involved in the refining of petroleum including visbreaking, coking, pyrolysis, catalytic cracking, oligomerization, alkylation, hydrofining, hydroisomerization, hydrocracking, and catalytic reforming. It analyses the thermodynamics, reaction mechanisms, and kinetics of each process, as well as the effects of operating conditions and reactor design on process performance and product quality. This is a valuable resource for chemists who wish to improve their knowledge of some of the real world issues that must be addressed in hydrocarbon conversion. Topics include processes on metallic catalysts, processes using bifunctional catalysts, and catalytic reforming.

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noreply@blogger.com (odbo) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:13:00 +0000

Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics
By James H. Gary, Glenn E. Handwerk

Book Description:

Continuing the high standards set by earlier editions, Petroleum Refining, Fourth Edition summarizes recent developments in oil refining processes, addressing topics ranging from basic applications to the implementation of viable operations that meet environmental and economic requirements. The authors maintain the clear, systematic style that made previous editions so popular. This edition reviews petroleum-refining technology and refining processes, incorporates recent statistics on utility data, investment, and operating costs, and considers environmental factors, the place of reformulated fuels in product distribution, and uses for heavier crude oils and those with higher sulfur and metal.

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Developments in Offshore Engineering

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:31:00 +0000

Author/Editor: Edited by: Herbich, John B.

Description:

Drawing from experts and top researchers from around the world, this book presents current developments in a variety of areas that impact offshore and ocean engineering.

Provides valuable insights into key aspects of wave-structure interaction, wave theory and prediction, mooring and cable dynamics, modeling laws, underwater acoustics, diving and life support systems.

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Gas Well Deliquification

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:50:00 +0000

Author/Editor: Lea, James; Nickens, Henry; Wells, Michael

Description:

No other book on the market offers such a turnkey solution to the problem of liquid interference in gas wells. This book contains not only descriptions of the various methods of de-watering gas wells, but also compares the various methods with a view toward explaining the suitability of each under particular circumstances. The material is presented as practical information that can be immediately applied, rather than a theoretical treatment. Also includes useful historical methods, but focuses on the latest techniques for de-watering gas wells.

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Oil Well Testing Handbook

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:06:00 +0000

This is a valuable addition to any reservoir engineer's library, containing the basics of well testing methods as well as all of the latest developments in the field. Not only are "evergreen" subjects, such as layered reservoirs, naturally fractured reservoirs, and wellbore effects, covered in depth, but newer developments, such as well testing for horizontal wells, are covered in full chapters.

*Covers real-life examples and cases.

*The most up-to-date information on oil well testing available.

*The perfect reference for the engineer or textbook for the petroleum engineering student.

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Gas Well Testing Handbook

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:52:00 +0000

Description:

This title deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity. A highly practical edition, this book is written for graduate students, reservoir/simulation engineers, technologists, geologists, geophysicists, and technical managers. The author draws from his extensive experience in reservoir/simulation, well testing, PVT analysis basics, and production operations from around the world and provides the reader with a thorough understanding of gas well test analysis basics. The main emphasis is on practical field application, where over 100 field examples are presented to illustrate basic methods for analysis. Simple solutions to the diffusivity equation are discussed and their physical meanings examined. Each chapter focuses on how to use the information gained in well testing to make engineering and economic decisions, and an overview of the current research models and their equations are discussed in relation to gas wells, homogeneous, heterogeneous, naturally and hydraulically fractured reservoirs.

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Handbook of Petroleum Processing

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:01:00 +0000

Product Description

This Handbook describes and discusses the features that make up the petroleum refining industry. It begins with a description of the crude oils and their nature. It continues with the saleable products from the refining processes, with a review of the modern day environmental impact.

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Handbook of Offshore Engineering

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:38:00 +0000

Book Description

* Each chapter is written by one or more invited world-renowned experts
* Information provided in handy reference tables and design charts
* Numerous examples demonstrate how the theory outlined in the book is applied in the design of structures

Tremendous strides have been made in the last decades in the advancement of offshore exploration and production of minerals.
This book fills the need for a practical reference work for the state-of-the-art in offshore engineering.
All the basic background material and its application in offshore engineering is covered. Particular emphasis is placed in the application of the theory to practical problems. It includes the practical aspects of the offshore structures with handy design guides, simple description of the various components of the offshore engineering and their functions.

The primary purpose of the book is to provide the important practical aspects of offshore engineering without going into the nitty-gritty of the actual detailed design.

Provides all the important practical aspects of ocean engineering without going into the nitty-gritty' of actual design details·
Simple to use - with handy design guides, references tables and charts·
Numerous examples demonstrate how theory is applied in the design of structures

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Dynamics of Offshore Structures

noreply@blogger.com (CuBi) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:23:00 +0000

Book Description
Unique, cutting-edge material on structural dynamics and natural forces for offshore structures

Using the latest advances in theory and practice, Dynamics of Offshore Structures, Second Edition is extensively revised to cover all aspects of the physical forces, structural modeling, and mathematical methods necessary to effectively analyze the dynamic behavior of offshore structures. Both closed-form solutions and the Mathematica(r) software package are used in many of the up-to-date example problems to compute the deterministic and stochastic structural responses for such offshore structures as buoys; moored ships; and fixed-bottom, cable-stayed, and gravity-type platforms.

Throughout the book, consideration is given to the many assumptions involved in formulating a structural model and to the natural forces encountered in the offshore environment. These analyses focus on plane motions of elastic structures with linear and nonlinear restraints, as well as motions induced by the forces of currents, winds, earthquakes, and waves, including the latest theories and information on wave mechanics. Topics addressed include multidegree of freedom linear structures, continuous system analysis (including the motion of cables and pipelines), submerged pile design, structural modal damping, fluid-structure-soil interactions, and single degree of freedom structural models that, together with plane wave loading theories, lead to deterministic or time history predictions of structural responses. These analyses are extended to statistical descriptions of both wave loading and structural motion.

Dynamics of Offshore Structures, Second Edition is a valuable text for students in civil and mechanical engineering programs and an indispensable resource for structural, geotechnical, and construction engineers working with offshore projects.

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