Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language, 5th Edition

• Basic understanding of the refining industry.
• Overview of key refining topics, using relevant analogies, easy-to-understand graphs, formulas, and illustrations.
• Exercises at the end of each chapter complete with answers.
• Excellent resource for self-study, as a classroom textbook, or as a quick reference.

• Field level personnel
• Management
• Students
• Anyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, refined products

William L. Leffler earned an MBA and PhD from New York University and a BS from MIT. After a commission in the US Navy, he worked in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industries for 36 years in the US and abroad. Following that, he taught courses in universities and in companies on the upstream, downstream, and petrochemicals for 20 years while pursuing his writing career. Dr. Leffler is a prolific petroleum industry writer of magazines and books (almost all with the words in Nontechnical Language in the title.) His books (some with co-authors) include this one on refining as well as petrochemicals, deepwater exploration & production, natural gas, pipelines and oil & gas production.