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....

There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country,...

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...

As the Arctic ice melts, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov edges closer to gaining control over the world's oil industry and key shipping routes. With the global economy and national security at stake, one man--Dan Reilly, a State Department and CIA consultant--steps from the shadows. But can Reilly navigate years of intrigue, political power plays, business deals, and mysterious deaths to put a stop to Gorshkov's far-reaching plans before it's too...