Petroleum Technology

Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few...

Traditional well logging methods, such as  resistivity, acoustic, nuclear and NMR, provide indirect information related to fluid and formation prop...

Oil Notes is about the excitement of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, and its gradual d...

Isotopes provide important information on many geological processes, with key relevance to the mining and petroleum industries, yet the techniques ...

Reduction in refining activity in the Northeast, as reflected in recently announced plans to idle over 50% of the regional refining capacity, is li...

We are facing a crisis that threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Civilisation has been defined up to now by how efficiently we handle...

We are facing a crisis that threatens the sustainability of the entire planet. Civilisation has been defined up to now by how efficiently we handle...

Some officials of Iran have recently renewed threats to close or exercise control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran''''s threats appear to have been ...

Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything...

Assuming no mathematical or chemistry knowledge, this book introduces complete beginners to the field of petroleum engineering. Written in a straig...

This monograph covers three broad topics of Mietek''s outstanding career, Heavy Fraction and Asphaltene Characterization, The Boduszynski Continuum...

Heavy oil is a crude oil of typically less than 20 DegreesAPI gravity and higher than 200 cp (centipoise) viscosity at reservoir conditions. It is ...

Asphaltenes are molecular substances that are found in crude oil, along with resins, aromatic hydrocarbons, and alkanes (i.e., saturated hydrocarbo...

Biorefineries are the adaptation of the petroleum refinery scheme into a biomass-based production scheme. They comprise of a number of specialised ...

Asphaltenes are non-crystalline, brittle, and black solids. At high temperatures they can polymerize, and convert into coke or asphaltic residue. A...

The main objective of this manuscript is to successfully predict severe slugging behaviour in a catenary riser. A review of the existing literature...

Unlike conventional oil resources, unconventional oil resources have been known to exist only for the last few decades and are available in limited...