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Author:   M. R. Islam
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Wiley-Scrivener
Dimensions:   Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781119479093

ISBN 10:   1119479096
Pages:   816
Publication Date:   20 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Opening Remarks 1 1.2 The Prophets of the Doomed Turned Into Scientists 1 1.3 Paradigm Shift in Sustainable Development 2 1.4 Questions Answered in This Book 5 2 Petroleum in the Big Picture 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Pre-Industrial Revolution Period 12 2.3 Beginning of the Petroleum Culture 36 2.4 The Information Age 46 2.5 The Energy Crisis 52 2.6 Conclusions 67 3 Natural Resources of the Earth 69 3.1 Introduction 69 3.2 Characteristic Time 69 3.3 Organic and Mechanical Frequencies 77 3.4 The Nature of Material Resources 89 3.5 The Science of Water and Petroleum 90 3.6 Nitrogen Cycle: Part of the Water/Nitrogen Duality 138 3.7 Conclusions 175 4 Growth Potential of Petroleum Reservoirs 177 4.1 Introduction 177 4.2 Toward Decarbonization 177 4.3 The Current State of the World of Oil and Gas 181 4.4 World Oil and Gas Reserve 205 4.5 Organic Origin of Petroleum 249 4.6 Scientific Ranking of Petroleum 252 4.7 Reserve Growth Potential of an Oil/Gas Reservoir 264 4.8 Conclusions 318 5 Fundamentals of Reservoir Characterization in View of Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery 321 5.1 Introduction 321 5.2 Role of Fractures 322 5.3 Natural and Artificial Fractures 328 5.4 Developing Reservoir Characterization Tools for Basement Reservoirs 339 5.5 The Origin of Fractures 346 5.6 Seismic Fracture Characterization 353 5.7 Reservoir Characterization During Drilling 363 5.8 Reservoir Characterization with Image Log and Core Analysis 379 5.9 Major Forces of Oil and Gas Reservoirs 415 5.10 Reservoir Heterogeneity 433 5.11 Special Considerations for Shale 448 5.12 Conclusions 450 6 Future Potential of Enhnced Oil Recovery 451 6.1 Introduction 451 6.2 Background 454 6.3 Types of EOR 461 6.4 Enhanced Oil Recovery in Relation to Oil and Gas Reserve 469 6.5 Current Oil Fields 491 6.6 Need for EOR 516 6.7 Conclusions 522 7 Greening of Enhanced Oil Recovery 525 7.1 Introduction 525 7.2 Carbon Dioxide Injection 528 7.3 Thermal Methods 544 7.4 Chemical Methods 574 7.5 Gas Injection 609 7.6 Recap of Existing EOR Projects 621 7.7 Downhole Refinery 657 7.8 Conclusions 662 8 Toward Achieving Total Sustainability EOR Operations 663 8.1 Introduction 663 8.2 Issues in Petroleum Operations 664 8.3 Critical Evaluation of Current Petroleum Practices 673 8.4 Petroleum Refining and Conventional Catalysts 678 8.5 Current Practices in Exploration, Drilling and Production 689 8.6 Challenges in Waste Management 692 8.7 Greening of EOR Operations 693 8.8 Zero-Waste Operations 710 8.9 Conclusions 714 9 Conclusions 717 9.1 The Task 717 9.2 Conclusions 718 References and Bibliography 725 Index 787

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M. R. Islam, Ph.D. is known as the most published engineer in the world. He has coined terms such as ""green petroleum,"" ""sustainable petroleum development,"" ""economics of intangibles,"" ""zero waste engineering,"" and others. His work has created a paradigm shift in a wide range of applications, spanning various disciplines.

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