Petroleum Engineering Handbook Set

The Petroleum Engineering Handbook has long been recognized as a valuable, comprehensive reference book that offers practical day-to-day applications for students and experienced engineering professionals alike.

Volume I: General Engineering presents material that is needed by all practicing petroleum engineers. The mathematics covered in the book will help readers to better understand the literature and software they use on a daily basis; other chapters include discussions of fluid and rock properties, as well as essential aspects of the economic and regulatory environment and a brief review of the social context of fossil energy.

Volume II: Drilling Engineering, the first drilling content to be included in the Petroleum Engineering Handbook, is intended to provide a snapshot of the drilling state of the art at the beginning of the 21st century. Drilling technology has evolved substantially over the years, from slide rules and hand calculations to advanced computer science and numerical analysis.

Volume III: Facilities and Construction Engineering covers all of the classic engineering disciplines such as civil, chemical, mechanical, and electrical, as well as the broad science of project management. Gain a basic understanding of the equipment and systems used by facilities engineers, learn the relative advantages and disadvantages of particular alternatives for a specific set of conditions, and better understand common terminology.

Volume IV: Production Operations Engineering will bring readers up to date in the areas of design, equipment selection, and operation procedures for most oil and gas wells. Chapters cover three main topic areas: well completions, problems caused by formation damage, and artificial lift—a major concern for production engineers.

Volume V: Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics is an essential reference for reservoir engineers. Learn how to acquire and interpret data that describe reservoir rock and fluid properties; understand and predict fluid flow in the reservoir; estimate reserves and calculate project economics; simulate reservoir performance; and measure the effectiveness of a reservoir management system.

Volume VI: Emerging and Peripheral Technologies covers technologies that have come to the forefront of the industry in the past 20 years. Descriptions of unique developments that are on the periphery of the areas covered in the first five volumes or in emerging areas of technology are included.

Volume VII: Indexes and Standards contains a master author index and a master subject index for Volumes I through VI. It also features an abridged version of the SPE Symbols Standard, which includes commonly used symbols and subscripts, and a list of SI Metric Conversion Factors, excerpted from the SPE Metric Standard.