Properties of Petroleum Fluids / Edition 2

by William McCain

Overview

This edition expands its scope as a conveniently arranged petroleum fluids reference book for the practicing petroleum engineer and an authoritative college text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878143351
Publisher:	PennWell Corporation
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	548
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

William D. McCain Jr. has been a visiting professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University since 1991. He also has a petroleum consulting firm, McCain Engineering. McCain started his engineering career with Esso (now Exxon) Research Laboratories in 1956. He was professor and head of the petroleum engineering department at Mississippi State University from 1965 to 1976. He taught petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University from 1984 through 1987. McCain was a consulting petroleum engineer with Cawley, Gillespie & Associates from 1987 until 1991. He was then with S.A. Holditch & Associates from 1991 until 2000, retiring as executive vice president, chief engineer, and member of the board of directors.
His engineering specialties within the company were properties of petroleum fluids and reservoir engineering, especially for gas condensates and volatile oils. He holds four US patents, has published more than 60 technical articles, wrote two editions of The Properties of Petroleum Fluids (PennWell) and was coauthor of Petroleum Reservoir Fluid Property Correlations (PennWell). He holds a BS degree from Mississippi State College and MS and PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. He is also a graduate of the US Army War College.

Table of Contents

• Components of naturally occurring petroleum fluids
• Phase behavior
• Equations of state
• Other equations of state for real gases
• The five reservoir fluids
• Properties of dry gases
• Properties of wet gases
• Properties of black oils-Definitions
• Properties of black oils-Field data
• Properties of black oils-Reservoir fluid studies
• Properties of black oils-Correlations
• Gas-liquid equilibria
• Surface separation
• Equilibrium-ratio correlations
• Gas-liquid equilibria calculations with equations of state
• Properties of oilfield waters
• Gas hydrates

Editorial Reviews

Since the first edition, much data has been developed and refined contributing to a substantially deeper knowledge of reservoir fluids, their analysis, properties, the chemical nature of petroleum, and gas- liquid equilibria. This new edition is abundantly justified. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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