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Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Practices,: Simon A. Katz and George V. Chilingar (Los Angeles. CA)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Russian petroleum industry, including its current status, development scenarios through 2010, and projected resources and production beyond 2010. It discusses the major geological provinces and hydrocarbon resources in Russia, technologies for exploration, drilling, production and transportation of oil and gas. The book serves as an excellent reference for professionals on the Russian petroleum industry now and in the future.

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Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Practices,: Simon A. Katz and George V. Chilingar (Los Angeles. CA)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Russian petroleum industry, including its current status, development scenarios through 2010, and projected resources and production beyond 2010. It discusses the major geological provinces and hydrocarbon resources in Russia, technologies for exploration, drilling, production and transportation of oil and gas. The book serves as an excellent reference for professionals on the Russian petroleum industry now and in the future.

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duction in Russia, analysis of drilling technology and on the petroleum exploration and exploitation both to

petroleum science and engineering in Russia, and the a newcomer and an expert. In its seventeen chapters,
state of pipeline hydrocarbon transportation. A re- there are comprehensive discussions of all main ele-
view of the main geologic provinces in Russia and ments of practices in petroleum industry. The book
hydrocarbon resources in the various provinces is starts with a review and analysis of current theories
given in this section. In the second section, the of generation, migration, and accumulation of
authors concentrate on forecasting and analysis of petroleum; also covered are various exploration
possible scenarios of development of Russian oil/gas methods, leasing practices, well prognosis, and eco-
industry, its hydrocarbon resources, future levels of nomic analysis (Chapters 2-4). In Chapters 5 and 6,
production, and development of petrochemical indus- the various types of traps and different sedimentary
try up to the year 2010. The third section presents environments, conducive to generation of petroleum
the future of the Russian industry in the years be- are discussed. Chapter 7 constitutes a review of
yond 2010. According to the authors of the book, drilling fluids and different mud systems, whereas
Russia has more than half of world’s gas resources. Chapters 13 and 1.5 cover formation testing practices
In this section, the authors present the projected and pressure detection and evaluation techniques em-
distribution of hydrocarbon resources in all major ployed worldwide of overpressured horizons. Excel-
geological provinces of Russia. lent account of the latest monitoring systems and
This book provides a comprehensive and well various parameters obtained during drilling of ex-
organized discussion of all major aspects of current ploratory-assessment-development wells is given in
and future status of the Russian petroleum industry. two chapters devoted to Geologging (Chapters 8 and
The fact that it is written in Russian is a complicat- 9). Overview of offshore technology, methods of
ing factor. For those who read Russian, it will serve formation evaluation using wireline logging data, the
as an excellent reference book on today’s status and latest logging methods, and the latest enhanced oil
perspectives of the Russian petroleum industry. The recovery techniques are discussed in the Chapters 10,
reviewers recommend its translation into English. 11, 12, and 16, respectively.
This book provides a comprehensive and well
SIMON A. KATZ and GEORGE V. CHILINGAR (Los Angeles. organized discussion of all major problems which
CA) exist in petroleum industry. It will serve as a valu-
able textbook for undergraduate students and an
S.SDl 0920-4105(95)00081-X excellent reference book for petroleum geologists,
engineers, and geophysicists. I believe that Dr.
Bhagwan Sahay reflects honor upon himself, his
Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Practices, profession, and his country.
by Bhagwan Sahay. Allied Publishers Limited,
A- 104 Mayapuri 11, New Delhi 11064, 1994, 647
pp., US $60.00. SIMON KATZ (Los Angeles, CA)

Published in India, this book written by Dr. Bhag-


wan Sahay provides an excellent in-depth treatment SSDI 0920-4105(95)00075-5

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