Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Factual recollections of historical events, interesting anecdotes and candid accounts from prominent individuals in the field combine to serve as a valuable research source with human interest." --Geotimes
"Oil and Gas Forecasting is a special book, worthy of a wider readership than either its biographic-sounding title, or publication in the "Mathematical Geological Series" might suggest. . . .this rather unique and enjoyable work has the gift of rather painlessly, in user-friendly fashion of "technical biography", conveying basic insights into a number of important technical issues in petroleum resource modeling." --Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
"I commend this book to all with an interest in oil and gas resource assessment, exploration for hydrocarbon or mineral resources, or the contemporary working context of applied geoscience." --Resources Policy
"I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the workings of the oil and gas industry or in issues of world or national resource-assessment . . ." --David Barr, Geol. Mag.
"A fascinating book, one that asks to be picked up again and again. . . .A book to admire." --Mathematical Geology
"A delightful mixture of history, autobiography, and technical discussion of petroleum resource assessment methodology." --Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
Review
"Factual recollections of historical events, interesting anecdotes and candid accounts from prominent individuals in the field combine to serve as a valuable research source with human interest." --Geotimes
"OilandGas Forecasting is a special book, worthy of a wider readership than either its biographic-sounding title, or publication in the "Mathematical Geological Series" might suggest. . . .this rather unique and enjoyable work has the gift of rather painlessly, in user-friendly fashion of "technical biography", conveying basic insights into a number of important technical issues in petroleum resource modeling." --Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
"I commend this book to all with an interest in oil and gas resource assessment, exploration for hydrocarbon or mineral resources, or the contemporary working context of applied geoscience." --Resources Policy
"I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the workings of the oil and gas industry or in issues of world or national resource-assessment . . ." --David Barr, Geol. Mag.
"A fascinating book, one that asks to be picked up again and again. . . .A book to admire." --Mathematical Geology
"A delightful mixture of history, autobiography, and technical discussion of petroleum resource assessment methodology." --Quarterly of Applied Mathematics
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Reflections of a Petroleum Geologist
2. The Oil Company Research Laboratory
3. The U.S. Geological Survey
4. The Exploration Play
5. The Economists
6. Discovery Rate Forecasting, Part 1: The Permian Basin
7. Discovery Rate Forecasting, Part 2: The Gulf of Mexico Offshore
8. The Parent Population of Oil and Gas Fields Is Log-Geometric
9. Exhaustion of the Resource Base and the Future Supply of Oil and Gas
10. Quantitative Mineral-Resource Assessment
Epilogue
References
Index