• Shale Gas Reservoirs: A Comparative Approach.- Analytical and Numerical Modelling of Shale Gas Reservoirs: Past and Present.- Inherent Defying Features in Shale Gas Modelling.- Production Performance Analysis of Shale Gas Reservoirs.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319707686 20180319

This book addresses the problems involved in the modelling and simulation of shale gas reservoirs, and details recent advances in the field. It discusses various modelling and simulation challenges, such as the complexity of fracture networks, adsorption phenomena, non-Darcy flow, and natural fracture networks, presenting the latest findings in these areas. It also discusses the difficulties of developing shale gas models, and compares analytical modelling and numerical simulations of shale gas reservoirs with those of conventional reservoirs. Offering a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in developing shale gas models and simulators in the upstream oil industry, it allows readers to gain a better understanding of these reservoirs and encourages more systematic research on efficient exploitation of shale gas plays. It is a valuable resource for researchers interested in the modelling of unconventional reservoirs and graduate students studying reservoir engineering. It is also of interest to practising reservoir and production engineers.
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• Introduction.- Fundamentals on Column Dynamics.- Models for Dynamic Column Buckling.- Final Remarks.- Appendix: Deduction of Motion Equations.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319912073 20180702

This book introduces the underlying concepts of column dynamics and buckling, based on the latest state-of-the-art research on this innovative topic. It begins with a summary of the basic concepts behind column dynamics and buckling, before moving on to the models for studying dynamic buckling inside oil wells. Four models with increasing complexity are presented: columns without friction; columns with friction; columns inside slant wells; and columns inside offshore wells. Each model is divided into two cases, depending on whether the column is being tripped in or out. A case study is used to demonstrate these models and is further developed as each model is presented and explained. The results include comparisons between the models themselves, thus showing the implications of the adopted hypotheses of each. This book enables academic, industrial, and graduate student readers to fully understand the fundamentals of dynamic buckling and to further develop the presented models for their own research.
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Leverage Big Data analytics methodologies to add value to geophysical and petrophysical exploration data Enhance Oil & Gas Exploration with Data-Driven Geophysical and Petrophysical Models demonstrates a new approach to geophysics and petrophysics data analysis using the latest methods drawn from Big Data. Written by two geophysicists with a combined 30 years in the industry, this book shows you how to leverage continually maturing computational intelligence to gain deeper insight from specific exploration data. Case studies illustrate the value propositions of this alternative analytical workflow, and in-depth discussion addresses the many Big Data issues in geophysics and petrophysics. From data collection and context through real-world everyday applications, this book provides an essential resource for anyone involved in oil and gas exploration. Recent and continual advances in machine learning are driving a rapid increase in empirical modeling capabilities. This book shows you how these new tools and methodologies can enhance geophysical and petrophysical data analysis, increasing the value of your exploration data. Apply data-driven modeling concepts in a geophysical and petrophysical contextLearn how to get more information out of models and simulationsAdd value to everyday tasks with the appropriate Big Data applicationAdjust methodology to suit diverse geophysical and petrophysical contexts Data-driven modeling focuses on analyzing the total data within a system, with the goal of uncovering connections between input and output without definitive knowledge of the system's physical behavior. This multi-faceted approach pushes the boundaries of conventional modeling, and brings diverse fields of study together to apply new information and technology in new and more valuable ways. Enhance Oil & Gas Exploration with Data-Driven Geophysical and Petrophysical Models takes you beyond traditional deterministic interpretation to the future of exploration data analysis.
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• Chapter 1 Geology.- Chapter 2 Pore structures.- Chapter 3 Geochemical properties.- Chapter 4 Nano-mechanical properties.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319760865 20180604

This book summarizes the authors' extensive experience and interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate how acquiring and integrating data using a variety of analytical equipment can provide better insights into unconventional shale reservoir rocks and their constituent components. It focuses on a wide range of properties of unconventional shale reservoirs, discussing the use of conventional and new analytical methods for detailed measurements of mechanical properties of both organic and inorganic constituent elements as well as of the geochemical characteristics of organic components and their origins. It also addresses the investigation of porosity, pore size and type from several perspectives to help us to define unconventional shale formation. All of these analyses are treated individually, but brought together to present the rock sample on a macro scale. This book is of interest to researchers and graduate students from various disciplines, such as petroleum, civil, and mechanical engineering, as well as from geoscience, geology, geochemistry and geophysics. The methods and approaches can be further extended to biology and medicine.
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• Pressure diffusion equation for fluid flow in porous rocks
• Line source solution for a vertical well in an infinite reservoir
• Superposition and pressure buildup tests
• Effect of faults and linear boundaries
• Wellbore skin and wellbore storage
• Production from bounded reservoirs
• Laplace transform methods in reservoir engineering
• Naturally-fractured reservoirs
• Flow of gases in porous media.

• Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. An STS Analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States 1 1. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oilfield Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions 19 2. Methods for Following Chemicals: Seeing a Disruptive System and Forming a Disruptive Science 41 3. HEIRship: TEDX and Collective Inheritance 64 4. Stimulating Debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's Generative Database 86 5. Industrial Relations and an Introduction to STS in Practice 115 6. ExtrAct: A Case Study in Methods for STS in Practice 137 7. Landman Report Card: Developing Web Tools for Socially Contentious Issues 165 8. From LRC to WellWatch: Designing Infrastructure for Participatory and Recursive Publics 191 9. WellWatch: Reflections on Designing Digital Media for Multisited Para-ethnography of Industrial Systems 219 10. The Fossil-Fuel Connection (with coauthor Len Albright) 247 Conclusion. Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds: A Call for Industrial Embodiment 279 Notes 305 References 333 Index 383.
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From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole.
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• List of Contributor Introduction: Aluminium, the strategic material 1. New Research Techniques in Aluminium Alloy Development 2. Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium-Based Alloys and Composites 3. How to Design and Buy Aluminium Castings 4. Aluminium Investment Casting and Rapid Prototyping for Aerospace Applications 5. Advances in the Sand Casting of Aluminium Alloys 6. New Hypoeutectic/Hypereutectic Die-Casting Alloys and New Permanent Mould Casting Alloys That Rely on Strontium for Their Die Soldering Resistance 7. Thermal Conductivity of Aluminium High-Pressure Die Castings 8. Advanced Casting Technologies Using High Shear Melt Conditioning 9. Treatment by External Fields 10. Automotive Wrought Aluminium Alloys 11. Aluminium Lithium Alloys 12. Aluminium Scandium Alloys 12. Control of Distortion in Aluminium Heat Treatment 14. Recent Insights Into Corrosion Initiation at the Nanoscale Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780081020630 20180717

Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy: Recent Advances updates the very successful book Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy. As the technologies related to casting and forming of aluminum components are rapidly improving, with new technologies generating alternative manufacturing methods that improve competitiveness, this book is a timely resource. Sections provide an overview of recent research breakthroughs, methods and techniques of advanced manufacture, including additive manufacturing and 3D printing, a comprehensive discussion of the status of metalcasting technologies, including sand casting, permanent mold casting, pressure diecastings and investment casting, and recent information on advanced wrought alloy development, including automotive bodysheet materials, amorphous glassy materials, and more. Target readership for the book includes PhD students and academics, the casting industry, and those interested in new industrial opportunities and advanced products.
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• Core Analysis: an Introduction.- Preparing for Analysis.- Microscopic Studies.- Macroscopic Studies.- Geochemical Analysis.- Rock Typing.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319780269 20180604

This book offers a compact guide to geological core analysis, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of geological studies of reservoir cores. It equips the reader with the knowledge needed to precisely and accurately analyse cores. The book begins by providing a description of a coring plan, coring, and core sampling and continues with a sample preparation for geological analysis. It then goes on to explain how the samples are named, classified and integrated in order to understand the geological properties that dictate reservoir characteristics. Subsequently, porosity and permeability data derived from routine experiments are combined to define geological rock types and reduce reservoir heterogeneity. Sequence stratigraphy is introduced for reservoir zonation. Core log preparation is also covered, allowing reservoirs to be analysed even more accurately. As the study of core samples is the only way to accurately gauge reservoir properties, this book provides a useful guide for all geologists and engineers working with subsurface samples.
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• Contents Abstract Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 1.1 Problem Statement 1.2 Methodology 1.3 Scope 1.4 Outline of the thesis 2 Phenomenology and Contradictions in Carbonate Reservoirs 2.1 First Contradiction: Tectonic Fracture or Nonplanar Discontinuity? 2.2 Second Contradiction: How Do Different Discontinuities Impact? 2.3 Analogs Reservoirs and Outcrops for a Flow Analytical Model 2.4 Geological and Tomography Features of Tectonic Fractures 2.5 Analytical Model for the Profile Velocity of Tectonic Fractures 2.6 Kinematic Analytical Modeling for Tectonic Fractures 2.7 Third Contradiction: Darcy's Flow or Couette General Flow for Planar Discontinuity (Tectonic Fracture) 2.8 Geological and Tomography Features of Fault Breccias 2.9 Kinematic Analytical Modeling for Fault Breccias 2 .10 Geological and Tomography Features of Chicxulub Impact Breccias and Cantarell Reservoir 2.11 Kinematic Analytical Modeling for Impact Breccias 2.12 Fourth Contradiction: Fluid Flow of the Cantarell Reservoir Modeled without Considerer Chicxulub Impact 2.13 Geological and Tomography Features of Sedimentary Breccias 2.14 Kinematic Analytical Modeling for Sedimentary Breccia 2.15 Geological and Tomography Features of Vugs 2.16 Kinematic Analytical Modeling for Vugs 2.17 Fifth Contradiction: Liquids Retention Paradox for Vugs 2.18 Application Examples 2.18.1 Behavior of Fluid Velocities 2.18.2 Carbonate Reservoir Characteristics: Cardenas Field Application. 2.19 Mathematical models summary 2.20 Nomenclature 3 A Ternary, Static, and Dynamic Classification of NFCRs 3.1 Classification proposal 3.2 Ternary classification propo sal considerations 3.3 Ternary classification of NFCRs 3.4 Ternary classification parameters 3.5 Geological discontinuities lines 3.5.1 Line of tectonic-sedimentary breccias 3.5.2 Line of impact breccias 3.5.3 Dissolution line 3.5.4 Interception of geological discontinuities lines 3.5.5 Classifying Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs 3.6 Generalized ternary classification 3.6.1 Classification of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Author: Ronald Nelson 3.6.2 Classification for naturally fractured reservoir, by Gilman et al. 3.6.3 Types of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Author: Heber CincoLey 3.6.4 Reservoirs classification, by Soto et al 3.6.5 Similarities between classifications available in literature and ternary classification 3.7 Examples of NFCRs 3.8 Nomenclature 4 Analytical m odel for Non Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs (NFCRs) 4.1 Overview 4.2 Analytical considerations for model 4.3 Couette and Darcy's equation 4.4 Analytical model 4.5 Mathematical model and solution for constant rate radial flow in an infinite reservoir 4.6 Solution of the Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation without stresssensitive 4.6.1 Case without transfer function 5 Analytical model for Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs (NFCRs) 5.1 Analytical considerations for model 5.2 Analytical model 5.3 Solution Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation 5.3.1 Case 1: γ = cf 6 Westergaard's solution applied to Carbonate Reservoirs 6.1 Westergaard's solution 6.1.1 Airy Stress Function 6.1.2 Displacement in the horizontal direction, u 6.1.3 Displacement in the ver tical direction, v 6.2 Westergaard's application for tectonic fractures 6.3 Westergaard's solution applied to a limestone reservoir with tectonic fractures 6.3.1 Field geological aspects 6.3.2 Paleontological description 6.3.3 Petrography 6.3.4 Permeability and porosity 6.3.5 X-ray diffraction for the identification and analysis of carbonates rocks 6.3.6 Computed tomography, CT 6.3.7 Fluid Pore Pressure 6.4 Carbonate rock mechanical properties 6.4.1 Overburden stress, Sv 6.4.2 Maximum and minimum horizontal stresses magnitudes 6.4.3 Elastic parameters: Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio 6.5 Closed or open natural horizontal fractures 7 Applicability and benefits of doctoral thesis for hydrocarbons industry 8 Conclusions and recommendations 8.1 Conclusions Recommendations.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319775005 20180625

This thesis presents an important step towards a deeper understanding of naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs (NFCRs). It demonstrates the various kinds of discontinuities using geological evidence, mathematical kinematics model and computed tomography and uses this as a basis for proposing a new classification for NFCRs. Additionally, this study takes advantage of rock mechanics theory to illustrate how natural fractures can collapse due to fluid flow and pressure changes in the fractured media. The explanations and mathematical modeling developed in this dissertation can be used as diagnostic tools to predict fluid velocity, fluid flow, tectonic fracture collapse, pressure behavior during reservoir depleting, considering stress-sensitive and non-stress-sensitive, with nonlinear terms in the diffusivity equation applied to NFCRs. Furthermore, the book presents the description of real reservoirs with their field data as the principal goal in the mathematical description of the realistic phenomenology of NFCRs.
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• Background.- Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change.- Carbon Management: Geomaterials And Geological Formations.- Clay Mineralogy.- Advanced Experimental Techniques In Geochemistry.- Experimental Studies: Molecular Interactions At Clay Interfaces.- Experimental Studies: Clay Swelling.- Classical MD Simulations Of Clay Systems.- Quantum Chemistry Of Clay Interlayer.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9783319126609 20180205

This book is a systematic compilation of the most recent body of knowledge in the rapidly developing research area of greenhouse gas interaction with clay systems. Unexpected results of the most recent studies - such as unusually high sorption capacity and sorption hysteresis of swelling clays -stimulated theoretical activity in this fascinating field. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) explains swelling caused by intercalation of water molecules and to a certain degree of CO2 molecules in clay interlayer. However, unusual frequency shifts in the transient infrared fingerprints of the intercalated molecules and the following accelerated carbonation can be tackled only via quantum mechanical modeling. This book provides a streamlined (from simple to complex) guide to the most advanced research efforts in this field.
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• Préface / Hubert Védrine -- La malédiction des métaux rares -- Une définition des métaux rares -- Les métaux rares, vecteurs d'énergies nouvelles -- Une révolution technologique à l'origine d'une mutation énergétique -- Une accélération de la consommation des métaux rares -- Terres rares, marché noir et catastrophes écologiques -- Un monde plus vert tributaire de métaux sales -- De colossales répercussions sanitaires -- Une soif de rattrapage, au risque de l'anarchie -- Les métaux rares, un fléau devenu mondial -- La part d'ombre des technologies vertes et numériques -- Les green tech : un bilan écologique accablant -- La matérialité de l'invisible -- Les promesses déçues du recyclage -- Retour à l'envoyeur -- La pollution délocalisée -- Quand les Américains dominaient le marché des terres rares -- Montgolfières, aventure et terres rares: la saga de Rhône-Poulenc -- Un nouvel agencement du monde -- L'illusion d'une nouvelle ère d'abondance -- L'abandon des politiques publiques de souveraineté minérale -- L'Occident sous embargo -- Pékin, nouveau maître des métaux rares -- L'"arme des métaux" au service de la politique étrangère chinoise -- Des manoeuvres commerciales aux répercussions planétaires -- Voyage chez la reine du platine -- La recrudescence des nationalismes miniers -- Des métaux d'influence... et de crise -- Main basse sur les hautes technologies -- La bataille des super-aimants -- Chronique d'une désindustrialisation annoncée -- Voyage dans la "Silicon Valley des terres rares" -- L'Indonésie à nouveau "non alignée" -- Le jour où la Chine a devancé l'Occident -- Les recettes chinoises du "colbertisme high-tech" -- Des progrès technologiques stupéfiants -- L'Occident affaibli -- Quand deux visions du monde s'opposent -- La course aux missiles intelligents -- Shampoing, tondeuses pour chien et missiles de haute précision -- Magnequench dans le collimateur des "Princes rouges" -- Interférences chinoises dans les urnes américaines -- Déni d'accès en mer de Chine méridionale -- Quand les aimants chinois font tanguer le Pentagone -- Extension du domaine de la mine -- Vers une pénurie de métaux? -- La transition énergétique et numérique en danger -- La multiplication des fronts miniers -- La fin des derniers sanctuaires -- La France, un géant minier en sommeil -- Paris à la conquête des océans -- Le jour où le président Obama a fait sauter le verrou de l'espace.

"Transition énergétique, révolution numérique, mutation écologique... Politiques, médias, industriels nous promettent en choeur un nouveau monde enfin affranchi du pétrole, des pollutions, des pénuries et des tensions militaires. Cet ouvrage, fruit de six années d'enquête dans une douzaine de pays, nous montre qu'il n'en est rien ! En nous émancipant des énergies fossiles, nous sombrons en réalité dans une nouvelle dépendance : celle aux métaux rares. Graphite, cobalt, indium, platinoïdes, tungstène, terres rares... ces ressources sont devenues indispensables à notre nouvelle société écologique (voitures électriques, éoliennes, panneaux solaires) et numérique (elles se nichent dans nos smartphones, nos ordinateurs, tablettes et autre objets connectés de notre quotidien). Or les coûts environnementaux, économiques et géopolitiques de cette dépendance pourraient se révéler encore plus dramatiques que ceux qui nous lient au pétrole. Dès lors, c'est une contre-histoire de la transition énergétique que ce livre raconte le récit clandestin d'une odyssée technologique qui a tant promis, et les coulisses d'une quête généreuse, ambitieuse, qui a jusqu'à maintenant charrié des périls aussi colossaux que ceux qu'elle s'était donné pour mission de résoudre."--Page 4 of cover.

• History and background
• Origin and production
• Storage, and transportation
• Gas cleaning
• Sampling and measurement
• Analytical methods
• Constituents of gas streams
• Properties of gases
• Analysis of gas streams
• Properties and analysis of gas condensate.

• 1. Ferromanganese Deposits 2. The Indian Ocean Nodule Field 3. Tectonics and Geomorphology 4. Basin Volcanics 5. Sediments 6. Ferromanganese Deposits - Characteristics 7. Ferromanganese Deposits - Genesis 8. Resource Assessment 9. Dimensions and Perspectives.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9780128054741 20180213

The Indian Ocean Nodule Field: Geology and Resource Potential, Second Edition, provides a view of the most recent studies along with classical theories starting from the 1960s. New concepts, hypotheses and critical appreciation of the state-of-the-art knowledge on nodule formation and resource management are featured in this new edition. The economy of the Indian Ocean has vast potential and yet it is one of the least studied oceans. Garnering economic advantage out of mineral resources from deep oceans has been a long cherished dream for the mining community. The availability of 5-metal rich polymetallic (manganese) nodules in specific areas of the Indian Ocean has lured researchers to discover more about their processes of formation, growth, distribution and enrichment.
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• Chapter 1: The Indian Ocean and its Associates 1.1 Uniqueness of Indian Ocean 1.2 The Indian Ocean and Sub-seas 1.3 Offshore Bed Rock Mineral Deposits 1.4 Sediment Pattern 1.5 Exclusive Economic Zone 1.6 Shallow Oceanic Mineral Deposits 1.7 Deep Oceanic Mineral Deposits References Chapter 2: Ores in the Deep Sea - Manganese Nodules 2.1 General 2.2 What are Mn - Nodules ? 2.3 Distribution of Manganese Nodules 2.4 Deep Sea Mineral Resources 2.5 Growth Pattern, Mineralogy and Geochemistry 2.6 Genesis of manganese nodules and manganese crusts 2.7 Mining Claims and Exploration 2.8 Indian Ocean Nodules References Chapter 3: Ores in the Deep-Sea - Cobalt and Platinum Rich Ferromanganese Crusts 3.1 The Cobalt Rich Crusts 3.2 Mineralogy and Geochemistry 3.3 Processes of Accretion and Formation 3.4 Crust Texture, Thickness, Rate of Growth and Substract Characteristics 3.5 Indian Ocean Occurrences References ã Chapter 4: Ores in the Deep - Seafloor Massive Sulfides (SMS) and Metalliferous Mud 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Nature, Distribution and Genesis of SMS Deposits and Metalliferous Mud 4.3 Seafloor Sulfides in the Indian Ocean 4.4 Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides (SMS) Deposits on the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge 4.5 Hydrothermal Mineralization in the Andaman Sea 4.6 Industrial Interest in SMS 4.7 The Scientific Significance of SMS Research References Chapter 5: Shallow Oceanic and Coastal Mineral Deposits 5.1 General 5.2 Phospharite 5.3 Construction Material 5.4 Heavy Mineral Placers 5.5 Economic Consideration and Application of Rare Earths in High Technology 5.6. Factors Controlling Formation of Beach Placers 5.7 Exploration and Evaluation of Heavy Mineral Placer Deposits 5.8 Important Coastal Placer Deposits of India 5.9 Heavy Mineral Placer of East African Coast 5.10 Tin Placers of Southeast Asia 5.11 Resource Position References Chapter 6: Shallow Oceanic, Non-living Resource: Petroleum and Hydrocarbon 6.1 General 6.2 Potential Hydrocarbon Basins in the West Coast of India Arabian Sea 6.3 Hydrocarbon Potential Along Eastern Offshore in the Bay of Bengal 6.4 Hydrocarbon Potential in the Andaman Sea 6.5 Gas Hydrates Resources in the Bay of Bengal 6.6 Significance of the Andaman Sea 6.7 Hydrocarbon Potential in the East African Coast References Chapter 7: Living Resources - Fish and Fishery 7.1 Biomass for Fishery 7.2 Tuna Fishing in the Indian Ocean 7.3 Fish Catch Status 7.4 Tuna Fish in the Indian Ocean 7.5 Some Challenges of Fishing in the Indian Ocean 7.6 Fishing in the Southern Indian Ocean 7.7 Fishery in the Mangrooves of Indian Ocean 7.8 Fishing in the Indian EEZ 7.9 Fisheries Management and Best Practices in the Indian Ocean References Chapter 8: Energy and Fresh Water from the Ocean 8.1 Ocean Energyã and Types 8.2 The Monsoon Pattern and Thermal Structure 8.3 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) 8.4 Ocean Wave Energy 8.5. Tidal Energy 8.6 Sweet Water from the Sea - Low Temperature Thermal Desalination Applications for Drinking Water References Chapter 9: Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 9.1 General 9.2 Development Perspective 9.3 Tasks and Applications 9.4 Developmental Trends in ROV and AUV Technology 9.5 Non-Hydrocarbon related ROV and AUV uses / Technology Transfer 9.6 Future Trends References Chapter 10: Seabed Mineral Exploration and Deep-Sea Mining Technology 10.1 General 10.2 Exploration Methods for Manganese Nodules 10.3 Exploration for Massive Sulfides on the Mid-Oceanic Ridges 10.4 Extent and Grade of SMS Deposits 10.5 Technology Needs for Exploration and Mining 10.6 Mineral Processing and Refining 10.7 Other Factors References Chapter 11: Ocean Environment and Pollution 11.1 Environmental Issues 11.2 Environment and Tectonics, and Eustatic Sea Level Changes 11.3 Environmental Effects Due to Mining 11.4 Potential Environment Impact related to Phosphorite Mining 11.5 Wastes in the Deep Sea 11.6 Indian Ocean and Climate Change References Chapter 12: The Future Options - The Growing Ocean Economy 12.1 General 12.2 Exclusive Economic Zone in the Indian Ocean 12.3 Implications of EEZ in the Indian Ocean 12.4 Economics of Deep Sea Mining 12.5 Estimates of Demand 12.6 Future Demand and Ocean Economy of Deep Sea Mining 12.7 Research Ships and Ship Building in India 12.8 Techno-Business Opportunity in the Indian Ocean References References - Future Reading Glossary Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781138095342 20180319

The current scenario provides an ideal opportunity to confer higher priority to the marine resources of the Indian Ocean, particularly in terms of integrated management of the deep sea, shallow sea and coastal resources. This will maximize their potential in the sustainable development goal (SDG) pattern, leading to an appropriate environmental management. Therefore, this book aims to provide an overview of the area and to highlight the potential market opportunities represented by this vast and rapidly developing nation. In doing so the following aspects have been covered: Exclusive title focussing on mineral resources of Indian ocean. Discusses living, nonliving, ocean waves and tidal energy, ocean environment and protection aspects. Includes information on key themes, details of organizations associated with the Indian Ocean. Illustrates deep sea mining technology and environmental perspectives. Covers hydrocarbons-sub sea oil and gas, minerals from placer deposits to deep sea nodules, sea floor massive sulphides and cobalt rich encrustations.
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• Introduction
• Drilling Related Geomechanics
• Lost Circulation
• Wellbore Strengthening
• Lost Circulation Materials
• Outstanding Problems and Recommendations for Future Work.

This book focuses on the underlying mechanisms of lost circulation and wellbore strengthening, presenting a comprehensive, yet concise, overview of the fundamental studies on lost circulation and wellbore strengthening in the oil and gas industry, as well as a detailed discussion on the limitations of the wellbore strengthening methods currently used in industry. It provides several advanced analytical and numerical models for lost circulation and wellbore strengthening simulations under realistic conditions, as well as their results to illustrate the capabilities of the models and to investigate the influences of key parameters. In addition, experimental results are provided for a better understanding of the subject. The book provides useful information for drilling and completion engineers wishing to solve the problem of lost circulation using wellbore strengthening techniques. It is also a valuable resource for industrial researchers and graduate students pursuing fundamental research on lost circulation and wellbore strengthening, and can be used as a supplementary reference for college courses, such as drilling and completion engineering and petroleum geomechanics.
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• Chapter 1: The Search for Ore Deposits and Chances of Success.- Chapter 2: Composition of the Earth and Mineral Resources.- Chapter 3: The Search for Ore Deposits and Chances of Success.- Chapter 4: Remote Sensing in Mineral Exploration.- Chapter 5: Survey in Exploration.- Chapter 6: The Statistical Treatment of Exploration Data and Compute Application.- Chapter 7: Interpretation and Exploration Data.- Chapter 8: How to Arrive at Decision to Open a Mine.- Chapter 9: How to Arrive at Decision to Expand Operative Mines.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)9789811056031 20171127

The book introduces essential concept of mineral exploration, mine evaluation and resource assessment of the discovered mineral deposit to students, beginners and professionals. The book is divided into nine chapters which will help the readers to incorporate the concepts of search for mineral deposits and understand the chances of success. The book discusses the fundamental details like composition of earth and mineral resources, formation of rock and mineral deposits, and the attempt to search for ore deposits to advance applications of remote sensing in mineral exploration. It also covers the details on how to conduct system of survey, evaluation, and how to arrive at a decision to open and carryout further exploration in the operating mine. The book shall be of great interest to geologists and mining community.
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