Bøger udgivet af Gulf Publishing Company

Explosions in the process industries injure or kill hundreds, if not thousands, of workers every year. They occur in process plants, refineries, platforms, and pipelines all over the world. This book explores different types of explosions that can occur in a facility and the necessary steps to guard against them.

Natural gas is playing an increasing role in meeting world energy demands because of its abundance, versatility, and its clean burning nature. This book is suitable for all engineers and professionals in the energy business.

With extraction out of depleted wells more important than ever, this new and developing technology is literally changing drilling engineering for future generations. This title explains technologies and the processes that surround them in easy-to-understand language, complete with worked examples, problems and solutions.

Covers guidelines and procedures on process plants and interconnecting piping systems. This book contributes more customized information on the necessary process equipment required for a suitable plant layout, such as pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, tanks, cooling towers and more.

Environmental regulations provide protection to the public, workers and the environment. This book introduces terminology, methodology, tools, procedures and practical guidance for incorporating efficient pollution prevention strategies into the overall business plan.

Helps anyone involved with machinery reliability, whether in the design of new plants or the maintenance and operation of existing ones, to understand why process equipment fails and thereby prevent similar failures.

Scale, or deposits, can build up in the wellbore tubulars and other downhole components, causing considerable damage to the life of the well. This title provides the quick knowledge that engineers need to enhance the reliability of corrosion and scale control technologies and also manage scale deposits, and ensure equipment integrity.

The wettability of oil reservoirs is the most important factor controlling the rate of oil recovery, providing a profound effect on petroleum production. This title includes critical topics such as core preservation, the effect of wettability on relative permeability.

Suitable for engineers on downhole drilling tools, this title describes all the critical tools for the engineer and covers the practical aspects of downhole equipment. Going beyond the basic bottomhole assembly, it includes mechanics and theory on tubulars, fishing, cementing, coiled tubing and various other downhole tools.

Recent oil price fluctuations continue to stress the need for more efficient recovery of heavy oil and tar sand bitumen resources. This title focuses on heavy-oil related recovery methods. It provides the methods of recovery for heavy oil and tar sand bitumen technology, broken down by thermal and non-thermal methods.

Natural gas represents nearly one-quarter of the world's energy resources. More than half of American homes rely on it as their main heating fuel. It serves as the raw material necessary in everyday paints, plastics, medicines and explosives. This title supplies all the basics that every person should know about the natural gas industry.

Offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS). This book provides an explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit refinery operations in complying with environmental laws and improving the overall efficiency of their operations.

Presents a basic approach to present the principles of petroleum reservoir simulation in an easy-to-use and accessible format. Applicable to any oil and gas recovery method, this book uses a block-centered grid and a point-distributed grid.

Suitable for anyone working with contracts and dispute control in oil and gas, this book dispels the myth that "there has to be a winner and a loser" in contractual management and dispute control.

Offers the practicing engineer and engineering student techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.

Focuses on the real obstacles to sustainable development and provides solutions to each problem encountered. This title provides proper guidelines to achieve true sustainability in both technology development and management of the petroleum sector.

Suitable for the piping engineer and designer in the field, this title fills a void in piping literature, since the Rip Weaver books of the '90s were taken out of print at the advent of the Computer Aid Design (CAD) era.