Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

Methods, Technologies, and Environmental Impacts

James G. Speight (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

650 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
978-0-443-14095-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Methods, Technologies, and Environmental Impacts, Second Edition, gives a thorough overview of offshore operations, including fundamentals, technology, safety, legal and environmental considerations, and global applications. This book is an authoritative description into advanced technologies, safety and environmental considerations that govern offshore operations. Comprehensive coverage and discussion on environmental impacts. Extensive coverage of offshore operations with current coverage of technologies, processes, legal and environmental aspects of deepwater exploration, drilling and well completion. This new edition is revised and updated to include new chapters on Oil Spills and Cleanup Methods that support HSE initiatives and sustainability as well as multiple chapters that address the role of offshore operations in the reduction of carbon emissions. Chapters address history, review fundamental concepts, processes and procedures, technological advances, environmental considerations, and mitigation. Global real-world scenarios are included. The audience includes undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, engineers, and entry-level professionals interested in petroleum engineering, chemical engineering, environment, and energy. 

Autor

Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas associated with the properties and processing of conventional and synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led, significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until 2020). Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related courses.

Inhalt

Part 1: Occurrence of Oil and Gas 1. Occurrence and Formation of Oil and Gas　 2. Offshore Geology and Operations　 Part 2: Offshore Operations 3. Offshore Platforms　 4. Exploration　 5. Drilling Technology and Well Completion 6. Production 7. Transportation 8. Worldwide Activities Part 3: Corrosion and Environmental Issues 9. Corrosion in Offshore Structures 10. The Nature of Oil Spills 11. Evaluation of Oil Spill Cleanup Methods 12. Assessment of the Environmental Impact　 13. Legislation 14. The Future

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2025
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bergbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• ISBN-10: 0-443-14095-2 / 0443140952
• ISBN-13: 978-0-443-14095-2 / 9780443140952
• Zustand: Neuware