Oil and Gas Production in Nontechnical Language.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Who? -- Why? -- What? -- Where? -- How? -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- 1 How Did We Get Here? The History of Production -- Oily Beginnings -- A Case for Casing -- More Fireworks -- Underground Mysteries -- Water, Water Everywhere -- Breathings of the Earth -- Crisis and Reservoir Engineering -- Notable Failure and Success -- Horizontal Drilling -- The Great Offshore -- Renaissance -- 2 The Container: The Reservoir -- Origin -- Down to earth -- Pangaea and the shifting plates -- Transformation -- Shifting sands -- Characterization -- Rock of (various) ages -- Going with the flow -- Lithification -- Spaces -- Connecting the spaces -- Distortion -- Discovery -- Finding the trap -- Enter seismic -- And On . . . -- 3 What's in The Container? The Prize -- Determinants -- Pressure -- Temperature -- Time -- The Contents -- Saltwater -- Hydrocarbons: Oil and gas -- The Chemistry -- Composition -- Properties -- Impurities -- Fingerprints -- The Origin of Hydrocarbons -- Biogenic -- Abiogenic -- Unconventional Oil and Gas -- Oil sands -- Coal-bed methane -- And On . . . -- 4 Yours, Mine, or Theirs? Ownership -- Ownership in the United States -- Royalties -- The Negotiation -- Damages -- Non-US Rights -- Bidding Process -- Spacing Units and Pooling -- Unitization -- Nonparticipation -- Nonconsent -- Rewards -- Perpetuation and Termination -- Expertise -- And On . . . -- 5 Getting There: Drilling -- The Spring Pole -- Cable Tool Drilling -- Cable Tool Operations -- Rotary Drilling -- Rotary rig components -- The Top Drive -- Drill Bits -- Penetration -- Changing the bit -- Drilling Mud -- The purpose of mud -- The circulating system -- Setting Casing -- Cementing -- Blowout Preventers -- Other Features -- Drilling Offshore -- Platforms for drilling -- At the seafloor.

Compensators -- Fixed platforms -- Automation -- The Course -- Mud motors -- Location, Location, Location -- And On . . . -- 6 What Have We Found? Logging and Testing -- Logging -- Mud logs -- Openhole logs -- Induction logs -- Saturation -- Porosity -- Coring -- Alternatives to coring -- Correlation Logs -- Spontaneous potential -- Gamma ray -- Cased-Hole Logging and Measuring Devices -- Real Time -- Directional and Horizontal Wells -- Original Hydrocarbons in Place -- Openhole Testing -- Drillstem testing -- Wireline drillstem tests -- And On . . . -- 7 Getting It Ready-Completions -- Casing the Hole -- Solid or slotted casing -- Cementing -- Trees -- Accessing the Formation -- Gravel packing -- Smart Wells and Intelligent Completions -- Hydraulic Fracturing -- Precedent -- Fracturing -- And On . . . -- 8 Behavior: Hydrocarbon Activity in the Reservoir -- Phases -- Phase Diagrams -- Reservoir Fluid Categories -- Using Phase Diagrams -- Black oil -- Volatile oil -- Retrograde gas -- Wet gas -- Dry gas -- Gas Wells versus Oil Wells -- Shrinkage -- Solution Gas-to-Oil Ratio -- Relative Permeability -- 9 Here It Comes: Production -- The Motivating Force -- Drive Mechanisms -- Producing Phases -- Primary Production -- Secondary recovery -- Tertiary Recovery -- Fire floods -- Steam floods -- Enhanced Recovery -- CO2 injection -- And On . . . to the Surface -- 10 Making It Marketable: Field Processing -- Some of the Parts -- Gas Treating -- Acid gas -- Water -- Oil Treating -- Heater treater -- Free-water knockout vessel -- Electrostatic heater treater -- Demulsifying agents -- Water Disposal -- Natural Gas Processing Plants -- Testing -- Measurement and Metering -- Gas metering -- Oil metering -- Storage -- Subsea Processing -- And On . . . -- 11 Fixing Things: Remedial Operations and Workovers -- Decision Making -- Workover Rigs -- Coiled Tubing.

Subsea Completions -- Well Problems -- Mechanical failures -- Water production -- Coning -- Plugging -- Well Stimulation -- Acidizing -- Fracturing -- Changing Production Intervals -- Abandonment -- And On . . . -- 12 Who's Involved: The Players -- The Companies -- Size -- Composition -- The People -- Geologists -- Geophysicists -- Engineers -- Operations staff -- The Suppliers -- In-house and outsourced -- And On . . . -- 13 What Should We Do: Strategy -- Identity -- A Strategy Model -- Assessing competencies -- Strategy implementation -- Digitizing the Oil Field -- The digital oil field -- Structure -- How Do E&amp -- P Companies Compete? -- The prize -- Index.

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