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Developments in Petroleum Science, 2
ABNORMAL FORMATION PRESSURES
Implications to Exploration, Drilling, and Production
of Oil and Gas Resources
FURTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES
1. COLLINS
GEOCHEMISTRY OF OILFIELD WATERS
3 . SZILAS
PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT OF OIL AND GAS
4 . CONYBEARE
GEOMORPHOLOGY OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN
SANDSTONE BODIES
5. . YEN AND . CHILINGARIAN (Editors)
OIL SHALE
Developments in Petroleum Science, 2
ABNORMAL FORMATION
PRESSURES
Implications to Exploration, Drilling, and
Production of Oil and Gas Resources
WALTER H. FERTL
Director ofInterpretation and Field Development,
Dresser Atlas Division,
Dresser Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas, .
with a contribution by
E V. CHILINGARIAN
Professor
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
Calif., . A.
and
HERMAN H. RIEKE, I11
fiofessor, School of Mines, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, W. Va., .
ELSEVIER SCIENTIFIC PANY
Amsterdam - Oxford -New York 1976
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ISBN 0-444-41328-6
With 233 illustrations and 36 tables
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PREFACE
The present book by Dr. Walter Fertl represents the first modern
collection prehensive review of laboratory studies, combined with
extensive field observations, dealing with the vast area related to the
origin, detection, and quantitative evaluation of abnormal formation pres-
sures and their profound technical