The Definitive Guide to Petroleum Production Systems–Now Fully Updated With the Industry’s Most Valuable New Techniques     Petroleum Production Systems, Second Edition,  is the comprehensive source for clear and fundamental methods for about modern petroleum production engineering practice. Written by four leading experts, it thoroughly introduces modern principles of petroleum production systems design and operation, fully considering the combined behavior of reservoirs, surface equipment, pipeline systems, and storage facilities. Long considered the definitive text for production engineers, this edition adds extensive new coverage of hydraulic fracturing, with emphasis on well productivity optimization. It presents new chapters on horizontal wells and well performance evaluation, including production data analysis and sand management.    This edition features   A structured approach spanning classical production engineering, well testing, production logging, artificial lift, and matrix and hydraulic fracture stimulation Revisions throughout to reflect recent innovations and extensive feedback from both students and colleagues Detailed coverage of modern best practices and their rationales Unconventional oil and gas well design Many new examples and problems Detailed data sets for three characteristic reservoir types: an undersaturated oil reservoir, a saturated oil reservoir, and a gas reservoir   

Petroleum Production Systems

Engineering & Transportation

Michael J. Economides

Engineering

Pearson Educacion

Christine Ehlig-Economides

Ding-Zhu

A. Daniel Hill

Pearson

<p>China's accelerated political and economic changes since the emergence of Mao in the mid 20th century, colored by nearly a five-thousand-year-old culture and accentuated by centuries of unique history, have driven the once backward nation into one of the world's leading economic superpowers. A Confucian culture that includes hard work and non-questioning authority has contributed in a major way. Above all, China has been able to accomplish economic stardom without restorting to other nations' tendencies of militarism, such as the United States, wartime Japan, and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and has opted for a softer voice and patience rather than brutish machismo. China wants to be liked rather than feared, wants to be accepted than despised. This includes all its actions from foreign policy to the staging of the Olympics to the covering up of glitches and unpleasant events. Although China's ascend on the world stage is assured, a hurdle that has the potential to become its chokepoint is the fact that the country has few indigenous energy sources, other that highly polluting coal, in a world of galloping consumption with dwindling exhaustable resources. In order to tackle this challenge of finite energy, China will have to muster its own resources and shirk its need for world popularity and acceptance, embark on a number of tough and perhaps internationally unpopular tasks while retaining its responsibility to its own people and, to a large extent, the rest of the world.</p>

Energy: China's Choke Point

Xina Xie

Energy Tribune Publishing Inc.

<p>Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has taken a giant step backwards into its Soviet past, and nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of energy politics. Modern Russian politics and energy sources first oil and then both oil and gas have been inextricably connected in a way unmatched by any other major power in the history of the world. This time, however, the state is bare, without the fig leaf of legitimacy that its communist ideology once offered. One reason for Putin s overwhelming popularity at home, is that he has tapped into Russia s two strong yearnings: a cultural affinity for strong, Tsar-like leadership quite different from Western European and North American predilections and an understandable hunger for prestige and world recognition a need to be relevant. In the course of 15 years, the Russian people saw their country go from superpower to junior partner, and then, thanks to Putin, through renaissance of power. Putin s sojourn has not been on the back of nuclear weapons which the country still owns in abundance but has been fueled by oil and gas. What Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev could not do with nuclear weapons and raw military power, Putin has attempted with oil and gas, in what can arguably be called energy imperialism.</p>

From Soviet to Putin and Back

Donna Marie D'Aleo

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