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Exploration and Production

Exploration and Production

Exploration and Production

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Dear all,

Because of my interest in oil and gas and petrochemical I would like to know everything about the upstream: exploration and production of oil and gas and hydrocarbon

I will appreciate any information, presentation material or lecture material from university (thinking of petroleum engineering) or whatsoever...

Please help me!!

thanks

RE: Exploration and Production

The Gas Processors Association (GPA) and the Gas
Processors Suppliers Association (GPSA) provide a gas processing handbook and electronic data book.  Get one and read it.  Although it is written targeting my level instead of a chemical engineer level you may still find it very good.
Table of Contents
Volume I
1-General Information
2-Product Specifications
3-Measurement
Measurement Excel Spreadsheet
4-Instrumentation
5-Relief Systems
6-Storage
7-Separation Equipment
8-Fired Equipment
9-Heat Exchangers
10-Aircooled Exchangers
11-Cooling Towers
12-Pumps and Hydraulic Turbines
13-Compressors and Expanders
14-Refrigeration
15-Prime Movers For Mechanical Drives
Volume II
16-Hydrocarbon Recovery
17-Fluid Flow and Piping
18-Utilities
19-Fractionation and Absorption
20-Dehydration
21-Hydrocarbon Treating
22-Sulfur Recovery
23-Physical Properties
24-Thermodynamic Properties
25-Equilibrium Ratio (K) Data
26-GPSA Member List

RE: Exploration and Production

Hi,

In reservoir part I can sugest you the following authors: L.Dake, Tarek Ahmed,M. Economides, AC Gringarten, B Craft, T Blasingame, R Carter, D Bourdet,L Mattar, MJ Fetkovich.
Here you have just a few of the best.

Best regards,
Andrei

RE: Exploration and Production

The SPE does a book "Petroleum Exploration in non- technical language" (or something), which would give you a good introduction to the process.  Briefly:

Geologist and geohpysicsists study a region and decide where to drill.  The studies include the low tech stuff like looking for oil leaking out of the ground to high tech stufflike magnetic surveys, gravity surveys and (mostly) siesmic surveys, where sound waves are bounced off the rock to form an idea of teh layers and structures int eh rock underground.

The you drill a hole (sounds easy doesn't it?) with a drill rig: offshore these can stand on the sea floor (jackups) or float around (semi subs and drill ships).  The hole can be vertical  or horizontal or anything in between and nowadays complex, 3 dimensional well trajectories are not uncommon. While you're drilling you're looking at the cuttings coming back out of the hole, looking for the type of rock and traces of oil.  After you've drilled the well you log it: you lower special tools into it to measure things like the electrical conductivity of the rocks, the radioactivity of the rock and so on, form which you can determine the type of rock, rock density and if there's oil in the rock.  Sometimes these measurements can be made while you're drilling called Logging While Drilling (LWD).

Then you run a steel tube (called casing) into the hole and pump cement into the gap between the steel and the rock.

Then you may test the well- you blow a number of small holes in the steel tube to open up the well to the rock, and let the oil flow out, measuring the pressure all the time.  Then you stop the flow and measure the rate the pressure builds up.  From this you can determine other properties of the resevoir: permeability, the reseroir shape (occasionally) and so on.

That's exploration....

RE: Exploration and Production

For the 'Production' side of E&P,

You can read Surface Production Operations. There are 2 volumes; 1st is on oil handling facilities, and 2nd is on gas handling facilities.

Another good book is 'Petroleum and Gas Field Processing'. It illustrates very simple and structured calculation approach on the design of surface unit operations like vertical or horizontal, 2-phase or 3 phase separators.

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