Build a Strong Foundation in Petroleum Engineering—from Exploration to Reservoir Management
Whether you are beginning a petroleum engineering degree, entering the oil and gas industry, or strengthening your understanding of upstream operations, Petroleum Engineering Introduction provides a clear, structured foundation in the principles, technologies, and engineering decisions that shape modern oil and gas development.
Written by Dr. Benjamin Flux, Ph.D., this comprehensive introductory textbook takes readers through the full upstream petroleum engineering workflow—from the origin and accumulation of hydrocarbons to exploration, drilling, well completion, production, reservoir management, project economics, and field abandonment.
Rather than presenting petroleum engineering as a collection of disconnected formulas, the book connects geology, reservoir behavior, drilling mechanics, fluid properties, production systems, economics, safety, and environmental considerations so readers can understand how each discipline contributes to the successful development of an oil or gas field.
Inside This Book, You Will Explore:- The petroleum industry and the role of the petroleum engineer
- Petroleum origin, migration, accumulation, and hydrocarbon traps
- Reservoir rock properties, porosity, permeability, and fluid saturation
- Reservoir fluid properties, PVT behavior, and phase relationships
- Geological, geophysical, seismic, and petroleum exploration methods
- Drilling engineering, rotary drilling systems, casing, cementing, and well control
- Drilling fluids, hydraulics, pressure losses, and wellbore stability
- Formation evaluation and well logging, including resistivity and porosity logs
- Well completion, perforating, sand control, acidizing, and hydraulic fracturing
- Production engineering, nodal analysis, well performance, and artificial lift
- Reservoir engineering, material balance, decline analysis, reserves, and reservoir simulation
- Waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery
- Field development planning and reservoir management
- Petroleum economics, discounted cash flow, NPV, IRR, uncertainty, and project evaluation
- Health, safety, environmental management, and the evolving energy landscape
Designed for learning as well as reference, the book develops concepts from first principles and reinforces them through worked examples, engineering calculations, practice problems, summaries, key equations, unit conversions, and technical terminology.
Ideal For:
Petroleum engineering students who need a dependable introduction to the discipline.
Chemical, mechanical, civil, and geoscience students seeking a practical understanding of upstream oil and gas engineering.
New oil and gas professionals who want to understand how exploration, drilling, completion, production, and reservoir teams work together.
Graduate students and technical professionals who need a structured refresher on fundamental petroleum engineering concepts.
Technical managers and support personnel who want to build a stronger working vocabulary of petroleum operations.
