Fossil Fuel Technologies

When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to resp...

The principle fuel used as a petrol substitute for road transport vehicles is bioethanol. Bioethanol fuel is mainly produced by the sugar fermentat...

It is a well-known fact that since the start of industrial crude oil extraction, some 150 years ago, the United States has consistently been the na...

The United States has seen resurgence in petroleum production, mainly driven by technology improvements -- especially hydraulic fracturing and dire...

The recent growth in unconventional natural gas production has also produced a profusion of publications on the exploration, development, productio...

The federal government has encouraged the development and use of alternative fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with aviation and ...

To reduce the dependence on dwindling crude oil reserves, the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts for the selective conversion of syngas int...

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to fuel is the only sustainable way to meet the current and future energy demands, at least in displacing a subs...

Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either cru...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of sustainable petroleum operations. Topics discussed include greening of petroleum ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique developed initially to stimulate oil production from wells in declining oil reservoirs. More recently, it has b...

Waste biomass includes agricultural residues, livestock wastes, municipal wastes and industrial organic wastes. It should be utilised or otherwise,...

The goal of coal mining is to economically remove coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s is widely used t...

Coal use today is responsible for large, and mostly avoidable, damages to human health and our water and land. Coal use in the future, along with o...

Well testing is a valuable and economical tool in the oil and gas industry. Thanks to the advances in mathematical modeling, measurement devices an...

Energy and environment are interconnected and an integral part of human society. The need for exploring energy resources (coal, oil, natural gas, c...