The Story of Oil and Gas: How Oil and Gas Are Explored, Drilled and Produced
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The Story of Oil and Gas: How Oil and Gas Are Explored, Drilled and Produced
Are you curious about how oil and gas companies discover the petroleum, drill the wells, produce the hydrocarbons and refine them into the fuels and chemicals we use every day?
If you are, this book is for you. This book is special because it gives you an overall picture of what oil companies do starting from what is petroleum, why it is important, where to find it, how to drill the wells, and how to produce the oil, process and refine it.
You will also see many awesome and colorful pictures of oil and gas wells, drilling rigs, and offshore oil production platforms.
This book gives you the answers to many questions you have on how the oil and gas industry operates.
After you have read this book, you will know: •What are petroleum and its origin •What oil and gas companies do •How much oil is produced in the US •How oil and gas are extracted •How oil and gas reservoirs form •What are shale oil and shale gas •How petroleum engineers fracture oil and gas wells •How geologists explore for oil using seismic methods •The different types of oil drilling rigs •What is an oil well blowout and how to prevent it •How to drill offshore oil wells •Types of offshore oil platforms •Types of oil drilling rigs •What are Christmas trees •What is LNG •What does an oil refinery do •What are horizontal wells