Designed for easy reading and accessibility, this bestselling book by Norman Hyne provides an enormous amount of useful information on the upstream petroleum industry.

The new updated 3rd Edition includes a new chapter on unconventional oil and gas (including gas shales), covers new well-logging tools and new drilling rigs, and adds a number of new figures and plates.

Thousands of professionals and students have used this upstream guide to further their understanding of petroleum geology, exploration, drilling, and production.

Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• The nature of gas and oil
• The Earth’s crust—where we find it
• Identification of common rocks and minerals
• Geological time
• Deformation of sedimentary rocks
• Ocean environment and plate tectonics
• Sedimentary rock distribution
• Mapping
• Source rocks, generation, migration, and accumulation of petroleum
• Reservoir rocks
• Petroleum traps
• Petroleum exploration—geological and geochemical
• Petroleum exploration—geophysical
• Drilling preliminaries
• Drilling a well—the mechanics
• Drilling problems
• Drilling techniques
• Testing a well
• Completing a well
• Surface treatment and storage
• Offshore
• Workover
• Reservoir mechanics
• Petroleum production
• Reserves
• Improved oil recovery
• Unconventional oil and gas
• Glossary
• Index