Offshore Operation Facilities: Equipment and Procedures provides new engineers with the knowledge and methods that will assist them in maximizing efficiency while minimizing cost and helps them prepare for the many operational variables involved in offshore operations. This book clearly presents the working knowledge of subsea operations and demonstrates how to optimize operations offshore. The first half of the book covers the fundamental principles...

A stronger, more informed approach to the energy markets The Energy World Is Flat provides a forward-lookinganalysis of the energy markets and addresses the implications oftheir rapid transformation. Written by acknowledged expert DanielLacalle, who is actively engaged with energy portfolios in thefinancial space, this book is grounded in experience with the worldof high-stakes finance, and relays a realist's perspective of thecurrent and future state...

Apply machine and deep learning to solve some of the challenges in the oil and gas industry. The book begins with a brief discussion of the oil and gas exploration and production life cycle in the context of data flow through the different stages of industry operations. This leads to a survey of some interesting problems, which are good candidates for applying machine and deep learning approaches. The initial chapters provide a primer on the Python...

Thermal Insulation Handbook for the Oil and Gas Industries addresses relative design, materials, procedures, and standard installation necessities for various oil and gas infrastructure such as pipelines, subsea equipment, vessels, and tanks. With the continued increase in available natural gas ready to export - especially LNG - and the definition of ""deepwater"" changing every year, an understanding of thermal insulation is more critical than ever....

Oil and gas companies have been dealing with large amounts of data much longer than most industries, and some energy analysts even refer to it as the "original big data industry." Now, with massive increases of seismic data, advances in network-attached devices, and a vast quantity of historical data on paper, the oil and gas space also presents one of today's most complex data science problems. As this O'Reilly report reveals, the industry is working...

World Systems Framework for Oil and Gas IndustryA Multitiered Systems ViewSome Case ExamplesEnergy CostsEducation and Workforce Development IssuesSystem of Systems FrameworkWhat Is System of Systems?What Is a Project System?What Is Systems Engineering?Embracing Project ManagementThe Gasoline Pump SystemQuantitative Systems ModelingCost-Schedule-Quality ConstraintsSystem of Systems Value ModelingExample of System Value ModelingEngineering Project ManagementRole...

"Why you need to seriously consider investments in gold and oil, right now! If you liked this Element, read more from Tom Lydon, including The ETF trend following playbook: profiting from trends in bull or bear markets with exchange traded funds (ISBN: 9780137029013)"--Resource description page.

"There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed. Christine Bader was one of those people. She loved BP and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights --...