This encyclopedia and atlas overviews industry developments during 2001 in each oil-producing country around the world. The 97 entries review such topics as capital investments, exploration, discoveries, markets, and pricing. Color maps of each country or region indicate the location of oil and gas

For more than 40 years, the International Petroleum Encyclopedia (IPE) has been the preferred research tool for hundreds of energy industry leaders for annual planning, reports, prospecting, projects, marketing efforts, and more. The 2010 IPE continues this tradition of providing decision-makers with vital information by compiling worldwide petroleum and energy industry data into one volume. Inside the 2010 International Petroleum Encyclopedia, you will find colorful atlas maps, extensive country reports, comprehensive statistics and surveys, factual chronologies, and insightful, exclusive articles that highlight the year's major events and their implications for the future. The 2010 IPE includes new sections on Kenya, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Bahamas, Mongolia, and Timor Leste. In addition, it provides up-to-date information on: * China's aggressive global search for oil and gas resources * Brazil's new plans for development of its presalt oil resources * The opening of several major oil fields in Iraq to development by outside companies * Progress on proposals to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline * Development of global oil shale resources * Gas shale development in Canada * The importance of production from marginal oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico * The status of major pipeline projects in Canada * The outlook for wider use of carbon dioxide for EOR in the United States * Australia's LNG industry, including use of coalbed methane to produce LNG/ * Technology options for capture of carbon dioxide from fossil-fueled power plants * The outcome and implications of the UN Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. You'll find all that inside the 2010 IPE, plus a thought-provoking guest essay by Lane E. Sloan, discussing the challenges facing America's twenty-first century oil and gas workforce.

Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads, and make plastic possible. "Newborn babies," observes author Sonia Shah, "slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blankets, and are hurried off to be warmed by oil-burning heaters." The modern world is drenched in oil; Crude tells how it came to be. A great human drama emerges, of discovery and innovation, risk, the promise of riches, and the power of greed. Shah infuses recent twists in the story with equal drama, through chronicles of colorful modern-day characters — from the hundreds of Nigerian women who stormed a Chevron plant to a monomaniacal scientist for whom life is the pursuit of this earthblood and its elusive secret. Shah moves masterfully between scientific, economic, political, and social analysis, capturing the many sides of the indispensable mineral that we someday may have to find a way to live without.

This encyclopedia and atlas overviews industry developments during 2001 in each oil-producing country around the world. The 97 entries review such topics as capital investments, exploration, discoveries, markets, and pricing. Color maps of each country or region indicate the location of oil and gas

The Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control, Third Edition provides a detailed review of the chemistry and operating conditions of many of the present large-scale chemical processes important to our economy and high standards of living. The processes that could lead to emissions affecting our air, soil, and water are considered, together with ways in which it may be possible to reduce or eliminate these pollutants. Focusing on cleaner production concepts without neglecting 'end of pipe' measures. With an increase in the awareness of corporate and social responsibility among business and industry leaders, the pressure to reduce harmful emissions and the desire to increase efficiencies and energy utilization, this book provides an essential resource. Suitable for researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of chemical and biochemical engineering and environmental science, as well as government monitoring and regulatory agencies and industry leaders who want to stay one step ahead, this book will be a valuable addition to any library. - Integrated treatment of chemical technology with emission control chemistry - Introductory outline of the causes and effects of air and water pollution chemistry - Outline of the operating features and efficiency of basic emission control devices - Historical background of developments in industrial chemistry to 2004 in a single volume - Organized for easy access to chemical technology, new developments, or emission control details - Referenced to current additional sources of information in each area covered - Review questions provide working experience with the material provided

As a founding OPEC member with an established oil sector and vast untapped oil reserves, Iraq has always been a major player in the global oil industry. However, its oil sector has never realized its full potential, being hindered by UN sanctions in the 1990s and later by infrastructural damage following the US-led invasion of 2003. The disruption in Iraqi oil supply and the prospect of its resumption carries both short and long term implications—for Iraq, the Arabian Gulf, OPEC and the world oil market. Although OPEC did stabilize supply and prices in the immediate aftermath of the invasion, such geopolitical upheavals create major challenges in market management. On the new world oil map, the geographical focus of exploration and production is shifting away from the Arabian Gulf to newer areas such as Russia, the Caspian basin, Venezuela and the West African rim. With global energy demand set to grow phenomenally, especially in Asia, and nations seeking to diversify and secure their oil supplies, both OPEC and Non-OPEC countries must make strategic investment and production choices to meet anticipated supply challenges. What are the prospects for a quick revival of the Iraqi oil industry? How will the return of Iraqi oil supplies to the world market affect Gulf producers? What are the resulting quota and supply adjustments that OPEC will have to consider? How will OPEC and Non-OPEC relations develop in the future? What strategic investments should Gulf oil producers make to safeguard their global position in the emerging oil scenario? Such key issues were debated by the industry experts who gathered at the ECSSR Ninth Annual Energy Conference entitled Gulf Oil in the Aftermath of the Iraq War: Strategies and Policies from October 19-20, 2003 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The conference presentations compiled in this book collectively offer valuable insight on all these vital energy concerns.