The Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production is the must book for someone who are nontechnical personnel or really new in the petroleum industry. There are several good points regarding this book as listed below:
• The author of this book, Dr Norman J. Hyne, explains complex subjects in the petroleum industry in very simple language. Moreover, what he wrote in the book covers all parts of petroleum starting from a geology phase to a production phase. You can see the table content of this book as listed below:
1. The Nature of Oil and Gas
2. The Earth’s Crust – Where We Find it
3. Identification of Common Rocks and Minerals
4. Geological Time
5. Deformation of Sedimentary Rocks
6. Sandstone Reservoir Rocks
7. Carbonate Reservoir Rocks
8. Sedimentary Rock Distribution
9. Mapping
10. Ocean Environment and Plate Tectonics
11. Source Rocks, Generation, Migration, and Accumulation of Petroleum
12. Petroleum Traps
13. Petroleum Exploration – Geological and Geochemical
14. Petroleum Exploration – Geophysical
15. Drilling Preliminaries
16. Drilling a Well – The Mechanics
17. Drilling Problems
18. Drilling Techniques
19. Testing a Well
20. Completing a Well
21. Surface Treatment and Storage
22. Offshore Drilling and Completion
23. Workover
24. Reservoir Mechanics
25. Petroleum Production
26. Reserves
27. Improved Oil Recovery
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