Oil & Gas Engineering Books: 01/13/08

Oil Field Chemicals

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

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

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

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

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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