“The body of the book devotes each chapter to a specific type of petroleum deposit and the extraction techniques: tight-sandstone oil and gas, coalbed methane, shale gas, carbonate-fracture-cavity reservoir, volcanic deposits, deposits in metamorphic rocks, heavy oil and bitumen, and natural gas hydrate. The book includes about twenty real-life case studies.”–Reference and Research Book News, August 2013
The very first book of its kind, Unconventional Petroleum Geology is an application-based reference for geologists and researchers in industry that presents the exploration and development opportunities for the most highly targeted unconventional hydrocarbons, including tight oil and gas, coalbed methane, heavy oil, tar sand, and shale gas.
From the Back Cover
The exploration of unconventional hydrocarbons such as shale gas, tight sandstone oil and gas, heavy oil, tar sand, and coalbed methane is the hottest current trend in the petroleum industry. Unconventional Petroleum Geology is the first book to provide a detailed assessment of the exploration and recovery potential of the full range of unconventional hydrocarbons. It provides a systematic introduction to the geological theory and relative technologies of unconventional petroleum resources in China, including the latest advances and resource assessment results.
- Provides a thoroughly detailed yet accessible reference to help you understand the newest methods for unconventional hydrocarbon exploration
- Offers a logical and intuitive three-part approach of systematically identifying an unconventional hydrocarbon, cataloguing its accumulation features, and assessing its exploration and recovery potential
- Includes more than 300 illustrations―many in full color―that will help you retain key concepts
- Presents over 20 case studies from around the world as real-world application templates, helping you make the book’s concepts immediately applicable in the field
About the Author
President of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) Professor, the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, CNPC. An expert on petroleum geology, Caineng Zou received a doctorate on Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration and is now vice-president and chief geologist of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) of PetroChina; vice-chairman of China Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry Society and Beijing Petroleum society; deputy-director of the natural gas committee of China Petroleum Society (CPS); group leader of the reservoir division in the petroleum geology committee of CPS and unconventional gas division in the natural gas committee of CPS; a member of the editorial board for Petroleum Exploration and Development, Acta Petrolei Sinica, and Natural Gas Geoscience; a part-time professor in Beijing University. He is also the leader of the national project “Accumulation Law, Key Technologies and Targets’ Evaluation of Litho-stratigraphic Petroleum and has been approved to receive the State Council special allowance in China. Dr. Zou has been awarded a National Top Prize for Progress in Science and Technology and ten Provincial or Ministerial Prizes in China. He has published over 90 papers and 5 monographs
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