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This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both
accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the
subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one
area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to
know about other areas (such as production offshore, or how oil and
gas were formed, or what can go wrong).It begins by discussing oil
and gas in the broader context of human society, and goes on to
examine what they consist of, how and where they were formed, how
we find them, how we drill for them and how we measure them. It
describes production onshore and offshore, and examines in detail
some instructive mishaps, including some that are well known, such
as Deepwater Horizon and Piper Alpha, and other lesser known
incidents. It looks at recent developments, such as shale oil, and
concludes with some speculation about the future. It includes many
references for readers who would like to read further. Mathematical
content is minimal.
This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both
accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the
subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one
area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to
know about other areas (such as production offshore, or how oil and
gas were formed, or what can go wrong).It begins by discussing oil
and gas in the broader context of human society, and goes on to
examine what they consist of, how and where they were formed, how
we find them, how we drill for them and how we measure them. It
describes production onshore and offshore, and examines in detail
some instructive mishaps, including some that are well known, such
as Deepwater Horizon and Piper Alpha, and other lesser known
incidents. It looks at recent developments, such as shale oil, and
concludes with some speculation about the future. It includes many
references for readers who would like to read further. Mathematical
content is minimal.
There is an increasing need to construct engineering structures in
the Arctic seas. The requirement is principally generated by the
oil and gas industry, because of the substantial reserves that are
known to exist offshore in the Beaufort Sea, the Caspian Sea, the
Barents Sea, the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sakhalin, the
Canadian Arctic, and almost certainly elsewhere. Structures have to
withstand the severe environmental forces generated by sea ice, a
subject that is developing rapidly but is still far from completely
understood. Underwater pipelines have to be safe against ice
gouging and strudel scour, but also have to be constructed safely
and economically. The social and human environment has to be
understood and respected.This important book intentionally takes a
broad view, and vividly accounts for the many and often subtle
interactions between the different factors. It is illustrated by
case studies of actual projects.
Dimensional analysis is a magical way of finding useful results
with almost no effort. It makes it possible to bring together the
results of experiments and computations in a concise but exact
form, so that they can be used efficiently and economically to make
predictions. It takes advantage of the fact that phenomena go their
way independently of the units we measure them with, because the
units have nothing to do with the underlying physics. This simple
idea turns out to be unexpectedly powerful.Students often fail to
gain from dimensional analysis, because bad teaching has led them
to suppose it cannot be used to derive new results, and can only
confirm results that have been secured by some other route. That
notion is false. This book demonstrates what can be done with
dimensional analysis through a series of examples, starting with
Pythagoras' theorem and the simple pendulum, and going on to a
number of practical examples, many from the author's experience in
ocean engineering. In parallel, the book explains the underlying
theory, starting with Vaschy's elegant treatment, whilst avoiding
unnecessary complexity. It also explores the use and misuse of
models, which can be useful but can also be seriously misleading.
Dimensional analysis is a magical way of finding useful results
with almost no effort. It makes it possible to bring together the
results of experiments and computations in a concise but exact
form, so that they can be used efficiently and economically to make
predictions. It takes advantage of the fact that phenomena go their
way independently of the units we measure them with, because the
units have nothing to do with the underlying physics. This simple
idea turns out to be unexpectedly powerful.Students often fail to
gain from dimensional analysis, because bad teaching has led them
to suppose it cannot be used to derive new results, and can only
confirm results that have been secured by some other route. That
notion is false. This book demonstrates what can be done with
dimensional analysis through a series of examples, starting with
Pythagoras' theorem and the simple pendulum, and going on to a
number of practical examples, many from the author's experience in
ocean engineering. In parallel, the book explains the underlying
theory, starting with Vaschy's elegant treatment, whilst avoiding
unnecessary complexity. It also explores the use and misuse of
models, which can be useful but can also be seriously misleading.
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