8) 9) 10) 2) 12) 13) vi) THE ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY, ABERDEEN FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF MECHANIC/.L AND OFFSHORE ENGINEERING Haske daeeicoieie iced Petroleum Technology Book List HB Bradley (ed), The Petroleum Handbook (SPE, Richardson, 1987) $B (te F Press and R Siever, Understanding Earth (W H Freeman, New York 1994) CC Plummer and D McGeary, Physical Geology (Sth ed) (W C Brown, New York 1991) F K North, Petroleum Geology (Allen & Unwin, London 1985) 1 Brooks & K W Glennie (eds), Petroleum Geology of N W Europe (2 vols) (Graham & Trotman, London 1987) Shall KM cickete (ed), Introduction to the Petroleum Geology of the North Sea (3rd ed) (Blackwell , Oxford 1990) J Kleppe et al (eds), North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs (Graham and Trotman, London, 1987) wo EN Tiratsoo, Oilfields of the World (3rd revised edition) (Scientific Press, Beaconsfield, 1986) RRF Kinghom, An Introduction to the Physics and Chemistry of Petroleum (Wiley, Chichester, 1983) Goad Pockrnd (Jun TO Allen and A P Roberts, Production Operations (3rd edition) (2 vols) (OGCL, Tulsa, 1989) Ceod i porheckove opvinh| Well Completions (2 vols) (SPE: Reprint Series, SPE, Dallas, 1978) WD McCain, The Properties of Petroleum Fluids (2nd edition) (Pennwell, Tulsa, 1989) ood wll varie yinyel peopetbinn , domtrhrw EN Tiratsoo, Natural Gas (3rd edition) (Scientific Press, Beaconsfield, 1986) . 7, LP Dake, Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering (Elsevier, Amsterdam, jose)18) 19) 20) 21) wry heh Sse Gade, Sey s LP Dake, The Practice of Reservoir Engineering (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994) ed ‘peak "wel taki,” ane IS Archer wud CG We", Petroleum Engineering: Principles and Practice (Graham and ‘Trotman, London, 1983) rilling”apeemtfay H C Slider, Worldwide Practical Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Methods (Pennwell, Tulsa, 1983) AH Harvey, L Koederitz and M Honarpour, Introduction to Petroleum Reservoir Analysis (Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1989) G D Hobson (ed), Modern Petroleum Technology (5th edition) (Wiley, Chichester, 1984) K Amold and M Stewart, Surface Production Operations Vol 1: Design of Oil- Handling Systems and Facilites (Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1986) / J IM Campbell, Gas Conditioning and Processing, Vol 1: The Basic Principles (7th edition) (CPS, Norman, 1992) ee AO JM Campbell, Gas Conditioning and Processing, Vol 2: The Equipment Modules (7th edition) (CPS, Norman, 1992) RN Maddox, Gas Conditioning and Processing, Vol 4: Gas and Liquid Sweetening (CPS, Norman, 1985) aeprelusive AL Kohl and F C Riesenfeld, Gas Purification (4th edition) (Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1985) GP Willhite, Waterflooding (SPE, Dallas, 1986) boys Boh" Peiyalractinn 6 p96 it WEM/KPD‘The term ‘petroleum’ was originally applied to naturally-occurring mineral oils, and means ‘rock oil’. It is now used in a wider sense to include natural gas, mineral wax and bitumen in addition to oils, and therefore covers all naturally-occurring materials consisting principally of hydrocarbons. Oil and natural gas are found in many parts of the world, always in, or closely associated with, sedimentary rocks. The geological age of these rocks can vary over a very wide range. ‘The composition and characteristics of crude oil and gas can vary widely from one reservoir to another. Within a single reservoir, the composition of the crude may vary somewhat with depth and position. Crudes range from light mobile liquids containing a high proportion of volatile material Which readily distils off to very viscous semi-solid materials, little of which can be distilled off before temperatures are reached at which decomposition begins. In spite of this enormous variation in properties, itis found that the ultimate chemical composition of crudes varies only within the fairly narrow limits shown in the tab! below: si s Element % by weight in crude Carbon 83.9-86.8 Hydrogen 114-140 Sulphur 0.06 - 8.0 Nitrogen 0.11 1.70 Oxygen 0.5 typically Metals (Fe, V, Ni etc) 0.03 typically The carbon: hydrogen ratio (by weight) usually lies in the range 6:1 to 8:1 The reason for this relatively slight variation in chemical composition is that crude oils consist principally of hydrocarbons belonging to just a few homologous series, with ‘mumerous members of each series being present in each case, Hence although Aifferences in ultimate chemical composition are small, physical properties of the rudes can vary widely depending on the relative proportions of lower and higher members of each series present