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4 books on Oil and Gas green technologies [PDF]
December 27, 2024 | 24 |
These books are covering carbon capture and storage, renewable energy integration, advanced drilling techniques, emission reduction technologies, green refining processes, sustainable resource management and innovations in eco-friendly extraction methods.
1. Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation
2023 by Sanket Joshi, Prashant Jadhawar, Asheesh Kumar
In a universe where oil doesn’t just sit around in polite little pools but stubbornly hides in inconveniently tight rocks and where sustainability is not just a word but a sort of cosmic prank played on engineers, Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation emerges as the ultimate guidebook for surviving—and possibly thriving—in the petroleum age. Packed with mind-boggling methods, from convincing polymers to play nice in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) to teaching carbon how to stay captured like an unruly guest at a sequestration party, it’s the sort of book that takes you on a journey through shale formations and methane molecules with the same panache as hitchhiking across galaxies. Toss in some deep dives into managing the paradoxical delight of oilfield produced water and this isn’t just a resource; it’s a roadmap to a future where sustainability might actually stop laughing in your face. Written by a cadre of experts who, one suspects, have secretly mastered the art of talking to hydrocarbons, this is the indispensable hitchhiker's guide to the wild, weird and wonderfully challenging world of oil and gas.
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2. Petrochemistry: Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering
2020 by Martin Bajus
Imagine, if you will, a book that fearlessly dives into the sprawling universe of petrochemicals with the same enthusiasm as a Vogon reciting poetry—only significantly more enlightening and substantially less painful. Petrochemistry: Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering is not just a title, it's an epic adventure into the alchemy of hydrocarbons, where the noble and slightly beleaguered molecules of petroleum and natural gas are heroically transformed into useful things by a process best described as “ingeniously complex but oddly satisfying.” Along the way, you’ll encounter flow diagrams that simplify mind-bending processes into something your aunt might understand (if your aunt is a process engineer), thermodynamics that would make a physics professor weep with joy and a dazzling array of sustainable tricks to save the planet while still keeping your car fueled. This book is, in short, a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Petrochemical Galaxy, except it’s real, practical and significantly less likely to involve intergalactic bureaucrats.
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3. Green Petroleum: How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable
2012 by M. R. Islam, A. B. Chhetri, M. M. Khan
Green Petroleum: How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable might sound like an oxymoron dreamed up by an especially ambitious PR team, but M. R. Islam, A. B. Chhetri and M. M. Khan are here to insist otherwise, armed with data, optimism and a suspiciously large thesaurus. With a cheerfully skeptical eye on the oil and gas industry, they wade into the swirling cocktail of global warming, gasoline prices and technological possibility, asking: Can a leopard change its spots, or at least paint them green? The answer, it turns out, involves a lot of innovative tinkering, a touch of ecological soul-searching and a very stern chat about why the industry’s current practices resemble a particularly clumsy demolition derby. Spoilers: the problem isn’t the oil itself—it’s how we’ve been going about finding, processing and using it, as though the planet were an all-you-can-eat buffet with no closing hours. Equal parts enlightening and eyebrow-raising, this book is a guide for anyone who suspects there’s a way to fuel the future without setting the planet on fire—literally or figuratively.
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4. Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk?
2008 by Aslaug Mikkelsen, Oluf Langhelle
Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk? might sound like the title of a dystopian thriller, but it’s actually a deeply serious, yet occasionally mind-boggling exploration of what happens when humanity decides to drill holes in one of the planet’s last great frozen frontiers—and then starts to worry about whether that’s a good idea. Through a narrative as intricate as the Arctic’s own ice floes (though thankfully a bit warmer), the book bounces between the monumental clash of climate change, corporate hand-wringing and the puzzling logic of trying to achieve “sustainable development” by extracting fossil fuels. Along the way, it visits the homes of polar bears (in Alaska and Canada), polite Norwegians and stoic Russians, asking tough questions about who really wins when oil and gas companies cozy up to governments and indigenous peoples. Spoiler alert: it’s not the glaciers. By the end, readers are left with a gripping, if somewhat existential, conclusion: saving the Arctic might just require humanity to outwit itself—a feat about as likely as an oil rig spontaneously learning to dance.
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1. Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation
2023 by Sanket Joshi, Prashant Jadhawar, Asheesh Kumar
In a universe where oil doesn’t just sit around in polite little pools but stubbornly hides in inconveniently tight rocks and where sustainability is not just a word but a sort of cosmic prank played on engineers, Challenges and Recent Advances in Sustainable Oil and Gas Recovery and Transportation emerges as the ultimate guidebook for surviving—and possibly thriving—in the petroleum age. Packed with mind-boggling methods, from convincing polymers to play nice in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) to teaching carbon how to stay captured like an unruly guest at a sequestration party, it’s the sort of book that takes you on a journey through shale formations and methane molecules with the same panache as hitchhiking across galaxies. Toss in some deep dives into managing the paradoxical delight of oilfield produced water and this isn’t just a resource; it’s a roadmap to a future where sustainability might actually stop laughing in your face. Written by a cadre of experts who, one suspects, have secretly mastered the art of talking to hydrocarbons, this is the indispensable hitchhiker's guide to the wild, weird and wonderfully challenging world of oil and gas.
Download PDF
2. Petrochemistry: Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering
2020 by Martin Bajus
Imagine, if you will, a book that fearlessly dives into the sprawling universe of petrochemicals with the same enthusiasm as a Vogon reciting poetry—only significantly more enlightening and substantially less painful. Petrochemistry: Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering is not just a title, it's an epic adventure into the alchemy of hydrocarbons, where the noble and slightly beleaguered molecules of petroleum and natural gas are heroically transformed into useful things by a process best described as “ingeniously complex but oddly satisfying.” Along the way, you’ll encounter flow diagrams that simplify mind-bending processes into something your aunt might understand (if your aunt is a process engineer), thermodynamics that would make a physics professor weep with joy and a dazzling array of sustainable tricks to save the planet while still keeping your car fueled. This book is, in short, a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Petrochemical Galaxy, except it’s real, practical and significantly less likely to involve intergalactic bureaucrats.
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3. Green Petroleum: How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable
2012 by M. R. Islam, A. B. Chhetri, M. M. Khan
Green Petroleum: How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable might sound like an oxymoron dreamed up by an especially ambitious PR team, but M. R. Islam, A. B. Chhetri and M. M. Khan are here to insist otherwise, armed with data, optimism and a suspiciously large thesaurus. With a cheerfully skeptical eye on the oil and gas industry, they wade into the swirling cocktail of global warming, gasoline prices and technological possibility, asking: Can a leopard change its spots, or at least paint them green? The answer, it turns out, involves a lot of innovative tinkering, a touch of ecological soul-searching and a very stern chat about why the industry’s current practices resemble a particularly clumsy demolition derby. Spoilers: the problem isn’t the oil itself—it’s how we’ve been going about finding, processing and using it, as though the planet were an all-you-can-eat buffet with no closing hours. Equal parts enlightening and eyebrow-raising, this book is a guide for anyone who suspects there’s a way to fuel the future without setting the planet on fire—literally or figuratively.
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4. Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk?
2008 by Aslaug Mikkelsen, Oluf Langhelle
Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk? might sound like the title of a dystopian thriller, but it’s actually a deeply serious, yet occasionally mind-boggling exploration of what happens when humanity decides to drill holes in one of the planet’s last great frozen frontiers—and then starts to worry about whether that’s a good idea. Through a narrative as intricate as the Arctic’s own ice floes (though thankfully a bit warmer), the book bounces between the monumental clash of climate change, corporate hand-wringing and the puzzling logic of trying to achieve “sustainable development” by extracting fossil fuels. Along the way, it visits the homes of polar bears (in Alaska and Canada), polite Norwegians and stoic Russians, asking tough questions about who really wins when oil and gas companies cozy up to governments and indigenous peoples. Spoiler alert: it’s not the glaciers. By the end, readers are left with a gripping, if somewhat existential, conclusion: saving the Arctic might just require humanity to outwit itself—a feat about as likely as an oil rig spontaneously learning to dance.
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