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Barker, Colin, and others. Petroleum. In Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology. 5th ed. v. 18. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Interscience, c2004-c2007. p. 570-611. Shaw, Brian Robert. Petroleum engineering. In McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology. 10th ed. v. 13. New York, McGraw-Hill, c2007. p. 251-253.
Subject Headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on on petroleum engineering may be located in Library catalogs, include the following:
Berger, Bill D., and Kenneth E. Anderson. Modern petroleum: a basic primer of the industry. 3rd ed. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Books, c1992. 517 p. Conaway, Charles F. The petroleum industry: a nontechnical guide. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Pub. Co., c1999. 289 p. Hyne, Norman J. Nontechnical guide to petroleum geology, exploration, drilling, and production. 2nd ed. Tulsa, OK, Penn Well Corp., c2001. 598 p. Modern petroleum technology. 6th ed. Chichester, Eng., New York, Wiley, 2000 (2001 printing) 2 v. Raymond, Martin, and William L. Leffler. Oil and gas production in nontechnical language. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Corporation, c2006. 255 p.
Ahlbrandt, Thomas S., and others. Global resource estimates from total petroleum systems. Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, c2005. 324 p. (AAPG memoir, 86) Bommer, Paul Michael. A primer of oilwell drilling. 7th ed. Austin, University of Texas at Austin, c2008. 241 p. Brantly, John Edward. History of oil well drilling. Houston, Book Division, Gulf Pub. Co., 1971. 1525 p. Clark, James Anthony, C. A. Warner, and H. E. Walton. The chronological history of the petroleum and natural gas industries. Houston, Clark Book Co., 1963. 317 p. Devereux, Steve. Drilling for oil & gas: a nontechnical guide. Tulsa, OK, PennWell, c1999. 337 p. Gray, Forest. Petroleum production in nontechnical language. 2nd ed. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Books, c1995. 288 p. Miesner, Thomas O., and William L. Leffler. Oil & gas pipelines in nontechnical language. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Corp., c2006. 357 p. Oil history: a selected & annotated bibliography. Compiled by E. Richard Neff. Houston, International Association of Drilling Contractors, 1995. 373 p. Oil is first found in the mind: the philosophy of exploration. Compiled by Norman H. Foster and Edward A. Beaumont. Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, c1992. 340 p. (Treatise of petroleum geology reprint series, no. 20) Owen, Edgar Wesley. Trek of the oil finders: a history of exploration for petroleum. Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1975. 1647 p. (AAPG memoir, 6)
Petroleum economics and engineering. Edited by H. K. Abdel-Aal, Bakr A. Bakr, M. A. Al-Sahlawi. 2nd ed. New York, M. Dekker, 1992. 440 p. Wiley critical content: petroleum technology. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Interscience, Wiley-VCH, c2007. 2 v.
Aven, T., and Jan Erik Vinnem. Risk management with applications from the offshore petroleum industry. London, Springer, c2007. 200 p. Azar, Jamal J., and G. Robello Samuel. Drilling engineering. Tulsa, OK, PennWell Corp., c2007. 486 p. Baker, Ron. Practical well control. Austin, University of Texas, Continuing Education, Petroleum Extension Service, 1998 (2005 printing). 1 v. (various pagings) Composite catalog of oil field equipment & services. Houston, World Oil, 1929- Davies, Michael, and P. J. B. Scott. Oilfield water technology. Houston, NACE International, c2006. 614 p. Diener, Daniel. Introduction to well control. 2nd ed. Austin, Petroleum Extension Service, University of Texas at Austin, 1999. 107 p. Donnez, Pierre. Essentials of reservoir engineering. Paris, Editions Technip, c2007. 387 p. Ezekwe, Nnaemeka. Petroleum reservoir engineering practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, c2011. 770 p. Fink, Johannes Karl. Oil field chemicals. Amsterdam, Boston, Gulf Professional Pub., c2003. 495 p. Guo, Boyun, William C. Lyons, and Ali Ghalambor. Petroleum production engineering: a computer-assisted approach. Burlington, MA, Gulf Professional Pub., c2007. 288 p. Khilyuk, Leonid F., George V. Chilingar, and Herman H. Rieke. Probability in petroleum and environmental engineering. Houston, Gulf Pub. Co., c2005. 275 p. Luthi, Stefan M. Geological well logs: their use in reservoir modeling. Berlin, New York, Springer, 2001. 373 p. Mobile rig register. Offshore Data Services. Houston, The Services, c1994- Offshore pipelines. Boyun Guo and others. Amsterdam, Boston, GPP, c2005. 281 p. Paik, Jeom Kee, and Anil Kumar Thayamballi. Ship-shaped offshore installations: design, building, and operation. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 536 p. Petroleum well construction. Edited by Michael J. Economides, Larry T. Watters, Shari Dunn-Norman. Chichester, Eng., New York, Wiley, c1998. 622 p. Samuel, G. Robello. Downhole drilling tools: theory and practice for engineers and students. Houston, Gulf Pub., c2007. 648 p. Sheng, James. Modern chemical enhanced oil recovery: theory and practice. Amsterdam, Boston, Gulf Professional Pub., c2011. 615 p. Vinnem, Jan Erik. Offshore risk assessment: principles, modelling, and applications of QRA studies. 2nd ed. London, Springer, 2007. 577 p. Well cementing. Editors, Erik B. Nelson and Dominique Guillot. 2nd ed. Sugar Land, TX, Schlumberger, c2006. 773 p.
Geology and Physics of Petroleum Burger, Henry Robert, Anne F. Sheehan, and Craig H. Jones. Introduction to applied geophysics: exploring the shallow subsurface. New York, W. W. Norton, c2006. 554 p. Dott, Robert H., and Merrill J. Reynolds. Sourcebook for petroleum geology; semicentennial commemorative volume. Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1969. 471 p. (AAPG memoir, 5) Gadallah, Mamdouh R., and Ray L. Fisher. Applied seismology: a comprehensive guide to seismic theory and application. Tulsa, OK, PennWell, c2005. 473 p. Hunt, John Meacham. Petroleum geochemistry and geology. 2nd ed. New York, W. H. Freeman, c1996. 743 p. Kearey, P., M. Brooks, and Ian Hill. An introduction to geophysical exploration. 3rd ed. Malden, MA, Blackwell Science, c2002. 262 p. Landes, Kenneth K. Petroleum geology of the United States. New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1970. 571 p. Levorsen, A. I., and Frederick A. F. Berry. Geology of petroleum. Tulsa, OK, AAPG Foundation, c2001. 724 p. Regional petroleum geology of the world = Regionale Erdöl- und Erdgasgeologie der Erde. Edited by Holger Kulke. Berlin, G. Borntraeger, 1994. 2 v. (Beiträge zur regionalen Geologie der Erde, Bd. 21-22) Tearpock, Daniel J., and Richard E. Bischke. Applied subsurface geological mapping: with structural methods. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, c2003. 822 p. Tiab, Djebbar, and Erle C. Donaldson. Petrophysics: theory and practice of measuring reservoir rock and fluid transport properties. 2nd ed. Boston, Gulf Professional Pub., c2004. 889 p.
Bibliography: p. 154-159. TN871.215.H65 1997 <SciRR> IMO/UNEP guidance manual on the assessment and restoration of environmental damage following marine oil spills. 2009 ed. London, International Maritime Organization, 2009. 97 p. Manual on oil pollution. Section IV, Combating oil spills. 2nd ed. London, International Maritime Organization, 2005. 212 p. Manual on oil pollution. Section V, Administrative aspects of oil pollution response. 2nd ed. London, IMO, International Maritime Organization, 2009. 99 p. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the Oil Spill Recovery Institute's Research Program. The Oil Spill Recovery Institute: past, present, and future directions. Committee to Review the Oil Spill Recovery Institute's Research Program, Polar Research Board, Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2003. 165 p. Oil spill science and technology: prevention, response, and cleanup. Edited by Mervin Fingas. Burlington, MA, Elsevier/Gulf Professional Pub., c2011. 1156 p. Ornitz, Barbara E., and Michael A. Champ. Oil spills first principles: prevention and best response. Amsterdam, New York, Elsevier, 2002. 653 p. World catalog of oil spill response products. Elkridge, MD, Robert Schulze Environmental Consultant, c1985- TD427.P4W69 <SciRR> For Younger Readers Brevard, Katherine McLean. The story of oil: how it changed the world. Mankato, MN, Compass Point Books, c2010. 64 p. Farndon, John. Oil. London, New York, DK, c2007. 72 p. Leacock, Elspeth. The Exxon Valdez oil spill. New York, Facts on File, c2005. 100 p. Morris, Neil. Oil and gas. North Mankato, MN, Smart Apple Media, c2006. 32 p. Powell, Jillian. Oil spills. Mankato, MN, Bridgestone Books, c2003. 32 p.
Ahmed, Tarek H. Reservoir engineering handbook. 4th ed. Amsterdam, Boston, Gulf Professional Pub., c2010. 1454 p. Air and gas drilling manual. William C. Lyons and others. 3rd ed. Amsterdam, Boston, Gulf Professional Pub., c2009. 1 v. (various pagings) Chaudhry, Amanat U. Oil well testing handbook. Burlington, MA, Gulf Professional Pub., c2004. 670 p. Drilling fluids processing handbook. Amsterdam, Boston, Elsevier, Gulf Professional Pub., c2005. 666 p. Hearst, Joseph R., Philip H. Nelson, and F. L. Paillet. Well logging for physical properties: a handbook for geophysicists, geologists, and engineers. 2nd ed. Chichester, Eng., New York, Wiley, c2000. 483 p. Khan, M. Ibrahim, and Rafiqul Islam. The petroleum engineering handbook: sustainable operations. Houston, Gulf Pub., c2007. 461 p. Petroleum engineering handbook. Larry W. Lake, editor-in-chief. Richardson, TX, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2006-2007. 7 v. and 7 CD-ROMs. Pipeline operation & maintenance: a practical approach. Mo Mohitpour and others. 2nd ed. New York, ASME, c2010. 715 p. Standard handbook of petroleum & natural gas engineering. Editors, William C. Lyons, Gary J. Plisga. 2nd ed. Burlington, MA, Gulf Professional Pub., c2005. 1 v. (various pagings)
Distinguished Instructor Short Course (2008, Tulsa, Oklahoma). Reservoir geophysics: applications. Presented by William L. Abriel; sponsored by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers. Tulsa, OK, Society of Exploration Geophysicists; Houten, The Netherlands, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, c2008. 128 p. (Distinguished instructor series, no. 11) International Conference on Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers (2nd, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand). Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers: selected contributions from "2nd International Conference on Advances in Petrochemicals and Polymers, (ICAPP 2007)" in Bangkok (Thailand), June 25-28, 2007. Symposium editor, Pitt Supaphol. Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH, 2008. 188 p. (Macromolecular symposia, v. 264) International Conference on Oil and Hydrocarbon Spills, Modelling, Analysis and Control (3rd, 2002, Rhodes, Greece). Oil and hydrocarbon spills III: modelling, analysis and control. Edited by C. A. Brebbia. Southampton, Eng., WIT Press; Billerica, MA, Computational Mechanics, c2002. 462 p. (Water studies series (Southampton, England), v. 11) International conference on terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines: evaluation, routing, design, construction, operation. Edited by Mike Sweeney. London, Thomas Telford, 2005. 735 p. and 1 CD-ROM. International Pipeline Conference (7th, 2008, Calgary, Alberta). Proceedings of the ASME International Pipeline Conference--2008. Presented at 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference, September 29-October 3, 2008, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sponsored by IPTI, an ASME Institute. New York, ASME, 2008. 4 v.
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Surface operating standards and guidelines for oil and gas exploration and development: the gold book. Prepared by United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 4th ed., rev. 2007. Washington, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, 2007. 76 p. (BLM/WO/ST-06/021+3071/REV 07) United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. The Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006; implementation review and discussion of safety assessment intervals for natural gas pipelines: hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2008. 85 p. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife. Our natural resources at risk: the short- and long-term impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2010- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Low pressure liquid pipelines in the North Slope, Greater Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, September 13, 2006. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2007. 140 p. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, to receive testimony relating to the effects of the BP pipeline failure in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on U.S. oil supply and to examine what steps may be taken to prevent a recurrence of such an event, September 12, 2006. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2007. 91 p. (S. hrg., 109-766) United States. Government Accountability Office. Leaking underground storage tanks: EPA should take steps to better ensure the effective use of public funding for cleanups: report to Congressional requesters. Washington, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2007. 106 p. (GAO-07-152) United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Deep water: the Gulf oil disaster and the future of offshore drilling: report to the President. Washington, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, U.S. G.P.O., 2011. 380 p.
Technical Reports and other types of literature may be identified in the following abstracting and indexing journals:
These selected reports are available in the technical reports collection of the Science, Technology & Business Division. Other reports on the topic may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5301 Shawnee Rd., Alexandria, VA 22312. NTIS telephone: (703) 605-6000. NTIS web site URL: http://www.ntis.gov.
Dissertations can be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Abudu, Adewunmi Tiwalade. Adsorption and particle size studies of petroleum fluids. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2009. Agbalaka, Chinedu C. History matching of three-dimensional reservoir models with complex non-Gaussian distributions of the model parameters. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2010. Bandara, Dunusinghe Mudiyanselage Uditha Chaminda. Modeling homogeneous and heterogeneous aggregation and breakup processes for oil/gas spills. (I) Oil and gas bubbles in deepwater blowouts. (ii) Oil-sediment interaction. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2009. Bui, Ly Huong. Near miscible carbon dioxide application to improve oil recovery. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2010. Rastegar Moghadam Moadab, Reza. A study of dispersive mixing and flow based lumping/ delumping in gas injection processes. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2010. Yang, Xiaole. The development of dynamic operational risk assessment in oil/gas and chemical industries. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2010.
Abstracting & Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are “petroleum engineering,” “drilling,” “reservoirs,” “fracturing,” or other headings, depending upon the topic of interest. Many of the titles may now be available in electronic format. Please consult a reference librarian for the location and format of abstracting and indexing services.
Journals that often contain articles relevant to petroleum engineering:
Anderson, Ian. Updated gas lift helps well stability. American oil & gas reporter, v. 54, Feb. 2011: 130-133. Bouchonneau, Nadège, and others. Experimental testing and modelling of an industrial insulated pipeline for deep sea application. Journal of petroleum science and engineering, v. 73, Aug. 2010: 1-12. Crockett, Joan, and David Morse. The New Albany shale in Illinois: emerging play or prolific source. Oil & gas journal, v. 108, Sept. 6, 2010: 72-79. Dirksen, Ron. Upgrading formation-evaluation electronics for high-temperature drilling environments. JPT: journal of petroleum technology, v. 63, Jan. 2011: 24, 26. Escobedo, Joel, and G. Ali Mansoori. Heavy-organic particle deposition from petroleum fluid flow in oil wells and pipelines. Petroleum science, v. 7, Dec. 2010: 502-508. Gao, Deli, Lianzhong Sun, and Jihong Lian. Prediction of casing wear in extended-reach drilling. Petroleum science, v. 7, Dec. 2010: 494-501. Izgec, O., and C. S. Kabir. Quantifying nonuniform aquifer strength at individual wells. SPE reservoir evaluation & engineering, v. 13, Apr. 2010: 296-305. MacKay, S., and others. Completion design for sandface monitoring of subsea wells. SPE drilling & completion, v. 25, June 2010: 193-198. Medeiros, F., and others. Analysis of production data from hydraulically fractured horizontal wells in shale reservoirs. SPE reservoir evaluation & engineering, v. 13, June 2010: 559-568. Montgomery, Carl T., and Michael B. Smith. Hydraulic fracturing: history of an enduring technology. JPT: journal of petroleum technology, v. 62, Dec. 2010: 26-28, 30-32. Moritis, Guntis. New synthetic-based muds allow more complex wells. Oil & gas journal, v. 109, Feb. 7, 2011: 68-70. Motahhari, H. R., G. Hareland, and J. A. James. Improved drilling efficiency technique using integrated PDM and PDC bit parameters. Journal of Canadian petroleum technology, v. 49, Oct. 2010: 45-52. Ouderman, P. Validation of blowout-rate calculations for subsea wells. SPE drilling & completion, v. 25, Sept. 2010: 282-289. Ramamoorthy, Raghu, and others. A new workflow for petrophysical and textural evaluation of carbonate reservoirs. Petrophysics, v. 51, Feb. 2010: 17-31. Thomas, Mark. Subsea developments key to future production. JPT: journal of petroleum technology, v. 62, Oct. 2010: 34-36. Zhou, L., and others. Hydraulics of drilling with aerated muds under simulated borehole conditions. Journal of energy resources technology, v. 132, Mar. 2010: 011002-1 to 011002-8.
Selected Materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following:
The Internet offers a number of sites useful for finding information on petroleum engineering. Several of the organizations listed above provide links to related sites from their websites. You might try the sites listed below, or use your favorite search engine and appropriate keywords to identify more specific resources.
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