Book description
Much of the world's petroleum is located on continental margins, and
any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible
without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume.
Written by some of the world's foremost authorities on oil and gas, this
volume explains for the practicing engineer and the engineering student
some of the most important and cutting-edge techniques for developing
offshore fields on continental margins.
Yu. N. Grigorenko, PhD, after graduating in 1959 from the
Leningrad Mining Institute, became a well-known specialist in the oil
and gas industry and is currently the Chairman of the Dissertation
Council of the All-Russia Petroleum Research Exploration Institute
(VNIGRI). He has written over 200 publications, including six
monographs, and has received many honors, including the Honored
Geologist of the Russian Federation.
George V. Chilingar, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of
Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is one of the
most well-known petroleum geologists in the world and the founder of
several prestigious journals in the oil and gas industry. He has
published over 70 books and 500 articles and has received over 100
awards over his career.
V. S. Sobolev, PhD, is a well-known petroleum geologist
and is a professor at the Institute of Geology and Minerology at the
Russian Academy of Sciences.
T. A. Andiyeva, PhD, and L. I. Zhukova,
PhD, are both professors at the All-Russia Petroleum Research
Exploration Institute (VNIGRI), Ministry of Natural Resources, Russian
Academy of Sciences (RAS), in St. Petersburg, Russia.
