Elements of Petroleum Geology

by Richard C. Selley

This Second Edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology is completely updated and revised to reflect the vast changes in the field in the fifteen years since publication of the First Edition. This book is a usefulprimer for geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum engineers in the oil industry who wish to expand their knowledge beyond their specialized area. It is also an excellent introductory text for a university course in petroleum geoscience.
Elements of Petroleum Geology begins with an account of the physical and chemical properties of petroleum, reviewing methods of petroleum exploration and production. These methods include drilling, geophysical exploration techniques, wireline logging, and subsurface geological mapping. After describing the temperatures and pressures of the subsurface environment and the hydrodynamics of connate fluids, Selley examines the generation and migration of petroleum, reservoir rocks and trapping mechanisms, and the habit of petroleum in sedimentary basins. The book contains an account of the composition and formation of tar sands and oil shales, and concludes with a brief review of prospect risk analysis, reserve estimation, and other economic topics.

* Updates the First Edition completely
* Reviews the concepts and methodology of petroleum exploration and production
* Written by a preeminent petroleum geologist and sedimentologist with 30 years of petroleum exploration in remote corners of the world
* Contains information pertinent to geophysicists, geologists, and petroleum reservoir engineers

Genres: Geology, Science

488 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1985

Reviews

[Rolland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very strong writing throughout. I have another oil & gas geology textbook that I tried to read, and the writing was horrible. Selley is a good geologist, and an excellent communicator.

[Vikas Khaitan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is the best book I have found on the subject. It covers the petroleum geology subject in quite a bit of technical detail, and is really useful if you are trying to understand how it all works and fits together and how fossil fuel is really formed within the earth's crust and then how it is really discovered.

[Howri Mansurbeg · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointed!

Very poor quality figures and images I immediately regretted purchasing it! Why not spending some efforts to produce nice figures?

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

very nice book overall. will likely use as a reference. the bibliographies and references make this even more useful.