Description
Encompassing more than 20,000 terms, the fourth edition of this best-seller is updated by 20% and draws heavily from the editorial contents of Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamérica, as a source of new technical terminology and of the local usage in different Spanish-speaking countries.
Included are many new technical and general words, phrases, and abbreviations used in oil and gas exploration, drilling, logging, completion, reservoir engineering, and production. There is a considerable increase in geologic, geophysical, commercial, computer, and legal terminology.
Ancillary fields such as electricity, navigation, construction, and ecology are also expanded.
Audience
- Engineers
- Field level personnel
- Management
- Energy lending and finance professionals
- Anyone who seeks to understand how, or relies upon, energy markets
- Students
About the Author
DOLORES PROUBASTA is from Barcelona, Spain, where she studied journalism, worked in fi lm production, and in the medical press, and later was founder and editor of Orbe Medico. After moving to the United States, she continued humanities and English language studies, taught Spanish in college, and became managing editor of Petróleo Internacional (PI), the Latin American sister publication of Oil & Gas Journal. After a return to medical publishing in Chicago as manager of foreign products, and a second two-year stint at PI, she joined the Society of Exploration Geophysicists as associate editor of The Leading Edge. She translated Oil & Gas Journal Latinoamérica since its inception and has been a consultant in numerous translation and international marketing projects. She is one of the few writers who has published professionally in two languages. Many of her biographies and articles have been translated into other languages.
Details
Type: Softcover
Size: 6x9 inches
Pages: 419
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9781593700416
