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More resources on Petroleum Geology & Engineering
How an Oil Refinery Works
A working tour of refinery process units, tracing crude classification, atmospheric distillation, catalytic cracking, reforming and hydrotreating through a real plant, and closing on the Nelson Complexity Index that ranks how much upgrading a refinery can do.
Oil 101
A reference covering the full chain from reservoir geology and drilling through refining chemistry, product specifications, transport and the mechanics of benchmark pricing, giving readers the physical vocabulary behind terms traders and analysts use daily.
Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production
The best comprehensive bridge between geology and drilling mechanics. Do not let 'nontechnical' fool you.
A Primer of Oilwell Drilling
The whole drilling sequence, illustrated, with no calculus. The rung between Hyne's breadth and Bourgoyne's mathematics.
Applied Drilling Engineering
The 'red book', on almost every drilling engineer's shelf. The canonical text on the scientific principles of well construction.
Petroleum Production Systems
The physics behind the shut-in section: skin effect, well deliverability, flow in horizontal wellbores, artificial lift.