by John H. Hartig
This book focuses on the use, abuse and restoration of rivers that have been heavily polluted by petrochemicals. As examples, the author chooses four North American rivers - the Buffalo River, Cuyahoga River, Rouge River and the Chicago River - which were so polluted that at times they actually did catch fire: burning rivers.
by Colin J. Campbell
Dr Campbell is renowned for the book he published eight years ago, The Coming Oil Crisis. That analysis has been proved right! Now the crisis has come, so we have Oil Crisis. From the vantage point of a lifetime's oil industry experience, he gives a lucid account of why oil production is set to decline - in a nutshell, we are using more than we are finding, because there is not really any significant amount still to be found. That fact explains why Shell has recently restated, and re-stated again and again, its reserves position; why oil is persistently above $50 a barrel (and why Goldman Sachs thinks $100 a barrel is pretty likely); why Central Asia is in turmoil; why America invaded Iraq - competition, in all kinds of ways, is intensifying for the remaining resource. The problem is beyond the grasp of politicians. They can fiddle with ideas about renewables or hydrogen but they, along with most of humanity, have not really grasped that it is the oil economy that enables about a 7 billion world population to be sustained. A wholly new world is imminent. The transition is not likely to be very pleasant. Dr Campbell outlines our grim future unless new policies to face reality can be put in place.
Volume 1: Profit & Risk
Volume 2: Value & Worth
by Ian Lerche & Sheila Noeth
There is an oil industry adage that exploration for hydrocarbons always loses money, while production of hydrocarbons always makes money. To what extent that statement is true, is at the heart of this work. Production may indeed always make money, but it is always possible to make more or to make less! To maximise a given opportunity, the skills of a geologist alone are not sufficient, neither are just an economist's skills enough. This Compendium recognises the complexity of petroleum production economic risk problems, and offers itself as both an introduction and a foundation for further thought and research.
Economic Growth and the Quality of the Environment
by Marian Radetzki
This book challenges the common belief that economic growth constitutes an insurmountable threat to the environment. A wide array of empirical observations are presented to show that environmental quality tends to improve as economic activity is expanded. The author explores the reasons for this counter-intuitive finding, and concludes that: expanding economic activity has provided increasing scope to fashion environmental conditions to human needs; human inventiveness and flexible behaviour has avoided or disarmed the environmental problems and constraints arising in the course of economic growth; there is no compelling reason why continued economic growth should not be compatible with improving environmental standard.
by Colin J. Campbell
Campbell's work reviews the geological origins of oil and gas, and the history and current status of this key industry. It assesses how much oil and gas has been produced; what remains in known fields; and what is yet-to-find, explaining how to properly interpret published numbers, many of which are spurious or distorted by vested interests.
by C. J. Campbell
Oil and Gas are finite fossil fuels from the geological past that are inevitably subject to depletion. Eventually we must run out, but what matters more is the inevitable peak of production when growth gives way to decline. The wider implications of this historic discontinuity are colossal.
Edited by Lutz Mez
This book focuses on one of the core topics of European Union energy policy: the increase and support of renewable sources for electricity production. It looks at the practicalities that are being addressed as renewable energy does indeed become a significant part of the energy supply mix: renewables are now the third largest contributor to global electricity production. Developments in energy policy in a range of key countries with focus on barriers and drivers towards further expansion of renewable sources and how those developments helped or hindered the growth in the use of renewables are analysed in detail from various perspectives. Additionally issues such as how policy developments have affected relations between the various actors in the energy supply chain are also considered.
Economics of Petroleum Production
Why Carbon Fuels Will Dominate The 21st Century's Global Energy Economy
Oil & Gas: Crises and Controversies
Man-Made Global Warming: Unravelling a Dogma
The Essence of Oil & Gas Depletion
Green Power Markets: Support Schemes, Case Studies and Perspectives
Faults, Flow, Finance and Pressure in Exploration Assessments
Wind Energy in the Built Environment
Induction Generators for Wind Power
by Sander Mertens
This book describes the wind resources in the built environment that can be converted into energy by a wind turbine. It especially deals with the integration of a wind turbine and a building in such a way that the building concentrates the available wind energy for the wind turbine. The three different ways to concentrate wind power are examined: wind turbines on the roof or at the sides of a building; wind turbines between two airfoil shaped buildings; wind turbines in ducts through buildings.
by William Kininmonth
The recurring community and environmental impacts of climate extremes, such as the global pattern associated with the El Niño phenomenon, can bring hardship and set back development. It is no accident that those countries that recognise the importance of planning for climate extremes, adequately engineer public infrastructures, and implement appropriate community response strategies are better adapted. When we take a long view, from many decades to centuries, it is important to understand that there are natural fluctuations in climate system. The warming trend of the recent century is not unusual, although a colder climate has been a more persistent characteristic during the past few million years.
by Peter R. Odell
Global energy demand has grown only slowly since the mid-1970s. This is
predicated to continue, even without actions to limit/reduce CO2
emissions. Nevertheless, increasing energy use is required to eliminate energy
poverty, not only for the 2 to 3 billion of the world's present population
which suffer from the condition, but also for the net additional 3 billion
inhabitants of planet earth by 2050. Sustainability for a more populous
21st century world depends on this development.
Edited by Tor Ragnar Gerholm
The Kyoto Convention recommends reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, to mitigate the rate of climate change. Lively debate has taken place in many countries, not least over the political and economic implications.
by Hans Labohm, Simon Rozendaal & Dick Thoenes
These three Dutchmen - respectively an international relations expert, a scientific journalist, and a chemical engineer (past chairman of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society) - form part of that growing body of reasonable and qualified people who feel unease at the claims of 'scientific consensus' on climate change, and wonder at the policies flowing from those claims. If the science is flawed, plainly the policies are too. Worldwide, billions of public money will be mis-spent, unnecessary costs placed on existing industry, new industrial development hampered. Together, these three authors are well-placed to point up the weaknesses in the scientific argument that global warming is a man-made phenomenon, and are able to analyse that murky place where the needs for recognition, research grants and votes all come together. Could it really be the case that the 'global warming crisis' is really as much about careers and power as anything else?
by Lars Bergman and Marian Radetzki
This monograph sets out to describe the evolution of international climate policy since Kyoto, and to analyse the likely consequences of implementing the policies on nations and markets. As an example, impacts on the electricity market in Sweden are considered in some detail. Authors Lars Bergman and Marian Radetzki generated this work from research carried out under the auspices of SNS, Centre for Business and Policy Studies, Stockholm, a leading Swedish think-tank. The rigorous economic analysis this monograph offers is aimed, firstly, at the politicians and civil servants responsible for formulating and monitoring policy; secondly at senior executives in the energy production sector and other industries responsible for large greenhouse gas emissions, the activities of whose business are the most likely to be affected by climate policy measures. For both groups, it is crucial that policies are good, in that they are scientifically valid, that they contain efficient instruments for achieving their purposes, and that risks of unintended consequences are minimised.
by Vladislav Akhmatov
This book is concerned with understanding and modelling grid-connection and fault ride-through capability in the context of electricity generated from wind turbines. It is very timely due to the rapid incorporation of wind power into power systems across the globe; meeting the challenge of maintaining reliable operation of those systems while using a new electricity source, is essential.
by Professor Ian Lerche
This book looks at how modern developments have enhanced the utility of basin analysis in hydrocarbon exploration. A major factor is modern computing power, which enables complex Monte Carlo-type calculations to be rapidly carried out; a second is the transfer of concepts from the economic arena to the theatre of hydrocarbon production, for example setting risking procedures to cope with data uncertainties. In addition now there are available powerful methods for handling the determination of parameters in the highly non-linear world of equations describing various facets of basin analysis. These methods include genetic algorithms, simulated annealing methods and the so-called 'fast path' method. All these novel procedures and methods are brought together in this volume so that students, as well as professionals, can see what the recent developments in basin analysis have amounted to, and so invoke the procedures as a solid stable platform to build on.
Volume 2: Europe's Entanglement
by Professor Peter Odell
Vol 1: Oil and gas are the drivers of modern economies and issues relating to them impinge importantly on national and international politics. This first of two volumes of Odell's collected papers and essays charts the sequence of significant developments, over the past 40 years, of this most international of industries. At one level, his book is a work of recent economic history, but an appreciation of the past is essential for proper interpretation of the present, and all the more so, if forecasting is one's trade. For these reasons, this book needs to be on the shelves of all who are professionally concerned with contemporary and/or prospective global oil and gas issues.
Vol 2: Now comes Volume 2 on Europe's Entanglement with the issues of international oil and gas. This volume looks at the astonishing story of a succession of fundamental changes in the European energy economy during the last 40 or 50 years. First, as to how and why imported oil replaced indigenous coal as the primary energy source in the early post-World War 2 period. Second, in the evaluation of the extraordinary saga of the discovery and exploitation of the North Sea basin's hydrocarbons resources. Third, on the evolution of the continent's natural gas markets from the early 1960s, when it accounted for under 2% of total energy used, to the current contribution of over 25% and an expected eventual share of 35% of Europe's energy supply. These powerful and complex dynamics of Europe's energy sector are then put in the context of the broader political and economic structures and policies which have emerged over the last four decades.
A Critique of "Climate Change 2001"
by Dr Vincent Gray
Dr Gray's stimulating monograph sets out to challenge the consensus over global warming. As the title suggests, his particular target is the 2001 reports of IPCC Working Groups I, II, and III. Dr Gray argues that while the IPCC has provided a wealth of scientific information on climate, it has not convincingly made its case that increases in carbon dioxide levels are occurring and that increase will have harmful effects. Among his several lines of attack are reflections on the quality and reliability of measurements; views on what weight should be given to different influences on the earth's temperature; the validity of computer modelling in this context.
Ian Lerche and James. A. MacKay
This book brings together the ability to discuss, in a quantitative and
coherent fashion, problems having to do with oil and gas flow up and along
subsurface faults. The main thrust of the book is concerned with problems
of flow and retainable reservoir amounts including leakage and production
factors, of financial, exploration and risk factors, of gas and oil differences,
and of the need to determine how many Monte Carlo calculations to perform.
Problems of pressure in the subsurface also impact exploration risk and estimation
of probable pressure conditions are discussed. The probabilistic conditions
ahead of drill determination are crucial in determining likely financial rewards
and evaluation of such considerations is also shown to play a crucial role.
The book is designed for both students in petroleum engineering and also for
professionals who actively have to grapple with such problems.