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Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Rasoul Sorkhabi

    1. Energy and Geoscience Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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  • No volume of this magnitude (comprehensive, up-to-date, written by experts) and format (a reference Encyclopedia in a non-technical language) in the field exists
  • Offers a multi-disciplinary coverage including petroleum geology, geochemistry, geophysics, exploration and development, basin modeling, reservoir simulation, and unconventional hydrocarbon resources
  • As a reference book, it will be of use for libraries, universities, petroleum companies, teachers, students, researchers and professionals in the relevant disciplines
  • The focus of the volume is on the petroleum exploration/development geoscience, not the petroleum industry (production), economics, geopolitics or history
  • Written in a language understandable to university students and readers in other disciplines
  • Given the significance of energy resources and petroleum industry, the volume has global sales potential

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series (EESS)

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Table of contents (54 entries)

  1. Anticlinal Theory

    • Raymond P. Sorenson

  2. Barrel

    • Jonathan Craig

  3. Biomarkers in Sediments and Petroleum

    • Kenneth E. Peters

  4. Biomarkers: Assessment of Petroleum Source-Rock Age and Depositional Environment

    • K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan

  5. Biomarkers: Assessment of Source Rock Thermal Maturity

    • Kenneth E. Peters, J. Michael Moldowan

  6. Biostratigraphy

    • Richard A. Denne

  7. Carbon Isotopes in Petroleum Science

    • Michael J. Whiticar

  8. Depositional Environments

    • Andrew D. Miall

  9. Diagenesis

    • J. G. Gluyas, G. Yuan

  10. Drilling: History of Onshore Drilling and Technology

    • Jonathan Craig

  11. Environmental Issues of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations

    • James A. Jacobs, Stephen M. Testa

  12. Exploration Risk Analysis in Petroleum Plays and Prospects

    • A. G. Doré, A. J. Fraser

  13. Geoscience Ethics and the Petroleum Industry

    • David M. Abbott

  14. Helium

    • D. Danabalan, J. G. Gluyas, Chris J. Ballentine

  15. History of Oil: Regions and Uses of Petroleum in the Classical and Medieval Periods

    • Jonathan Craig

  16. History of Oil: The Birth of the Modern Oil Industry (1859–1939)

    • Jonathan Craig

  17. History of Oil: The Premodern Era (Thirteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries)

    • Jonathan Craig

  18. Hydrous Pyrolysis

    • Michael D. Lewan

  19. Microbial Gas

    • Barry Jay Katz

  20. Microfossils: Calcareous Nannoplankton (Nannofossils)

    • Sudeep Kanungo, Jeremy Young, Gosia Skowron
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About this book

The Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience, published in the Springer’s celebrated Earth Science Encyclopedia Series, offers a comprehensive platform for topical articles on petroleum geology, geochemistry, geophysics, exploration and development, basin modeling, reservoir simulation, and unconventional hydrocarbon resources. With nearly 250 entry articles written by leading researchers and professionals, the Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience provides a useful educational and reference tool and gives up-to-date overviews of petroleum geoscience. Given the significance of oil and gas resources in world economy and everyday life, and global standing of the petroleum industry in employment, university education, and research funding in geoscience disciplines, this volume will be of wider interest across academic as well as industrial readers. Published both in print and digitally, The Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience can easily be used as a reference book and an overview of technicaltopics in a non-technical language understandable to educators and professionals. Each entry article in the volume also lists main books and papers in the field for further reading.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Energy and Geoscience Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Rasoul Sorkhabi

About the editor

Rasoul Sorkhabi is Research Professor, University of Utah, Energy & Geoscience Institute, Salt Lake City, USA. A native of Iran, he has lived most of his life in the USA, Japan, and India, and is multi-lingual. More than two decades of academic and industry experience after Ph.D. Principal Investigator for a number of petroleum/regional geology consortia funded by oil companies. Has published and presented nearly 200 articles in various journals and conferences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Encyclopedia of Petroleum Geoscience

  • Editors: Rasoul Sorkhabi

  • Series Title: Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02330-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02330-4Due: 07 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1388-4360

  • Series E-ISSN: 1871-756X

  • Number of Pages: 1000

  • Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture)

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