文档介绍：Oil and Gas Production
in Nontechnical Language
Martin S. Raymond and William L. Leffler
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Leffler, William L.
Oil & gas production in nontechnical language / William Leffler and
Martin Raymond.
p. em.
Includes index.
ISBN -13: 978-1-59370-052-2 (hardcover)
ISBN-IO: 1-59370-052-0 (hardcover)
1. Oil wells. 2. Gas wells. 3. Petroleum engineering. I. Raymond, Martin.
II. Title. III. Title: Oil and gas production in nontechnical language.
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Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
List of Figures xvii
1 How Did We Get Here? The History of Production 1
Oily Beginnings 1
A Case for Casing .4
More Fireworks 6
Underground Mysteries 8
Water, Water, Everywhere 9
Brcathings of the Earth 11
Crisis and Reservoir Engineering 12
Horizontal Drilling 16
The Great Offshore 17
2 The Container: The Reservoir 21
Origin 22
Down to Earth 23
Pangaea and the