Nontechnical guide to petroleum geology, exploration, drilling and production (2^nd Ed.)

Used by corporate training departments and colleges and universities worldwide, this is the most complete upstream guide available. The author provides an easy to understand explanation of complex topics with pictures, graphs, and illustrations covering everything from how oil and gas is formed , how to find commercial quantities , how to drill, evaluate, and complete a well, all the way through production and improved oil recovery. This book presents new chapters on reserves, offshore drilling and production, and workover , a new seismic color plate , new technologies in seismology and offshore drilling and completion , expanded glossary , revised plates and figures , drilling and production records , lots of new text throughout.

The nature of gas and oil. The Earth's crust, where we find it. Identification of common rocks and minerals. Geological time. Deformation of sedimentary rocks. Sandstone reservoir rocks. Carbonate reservoir rocks. Sedimentary rock distribution. Mapping. Ocean environment and plate tectonics. Source rocks, generation, migration, and accumulation of petroleum. Petroleum traps. Petroleum exploration : geological and geochemical , geophysical. Drilling preliminaries. Drilling a well : the mechanics. Drilling problems. Drilling techniques. Evaluating a well. Completing a well. Surface treatment and storage. Offshore drilling and production. Workover. Reservoir mechanics. Petroleum production. Reserves. Improved oil recovery.