1st Edition
Economic Analysis of Oil and Gas Engineering Operations
Engineers seek solutions to problems, and the economic viability of each potential solution is normally considered along with the technical merits. This is typically true for the petroleum sector, which includes the global processes of exploration, production, refining, and transportation. Decisions on an investment in any oil or gas field development are made on the basis of its value, which is judged by a combination of a number of economic indicators. Economic Analysis of Oil and Gas Engineering Operations focuses on economic treatment of petroleum engineering operations and serves as a helpful resource for making practical and profitable decisions in oil and gas field development.
- Reflects major changes over the past decade or so in the oil and gas industry
- Provides thorough coverage of the use of economic analysis techniques in decision-making in petroleum-related projects
- Features real-world cases and applications of economic analysis of various engineering problems encountered in petroleum operations
- Includes principles applicable to other engineering disciplines
This work will be of value to practicing engineers and industry professionals, managers, and executives working in the petroleum industry who have the responsibility of planning and decision-making, as well as advanced students in petroleum and chemical engineering studying engineering economics, petroleum economics and policy, project evaluation, and plant design.
Section I Facts about Crude Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 1 Oil and Gas Industry Overview
Chapter 2 Crude Oil: Origin and Background
Chapter 3 Composition and Types of Crude Oil and Composition
of Natural Gas
Section II Fundamentals of Engineering
Economic Analysis
Section II.I Basic Concepts
Chapter 4 Time Value of Money in Capital Expenditures
Chapter 5 Depreciation and Depletion in Oil Projects
Section II.II Profitability Analysis and Evaluation
Chapter 6 Annual Rate of Return (A.R.R.) & Payout Period (P.P.)
Chapter 7 Discounted Cash Flow Rate of Return (D.C.F.R.) and Present
Value Index (P.V.I.)
Chapter 8 Analysis of Alternatives, Selections, and Replacements
Chapter 9 Feasibility Study
Chapter 10 Model Solved Examples
Section II.III Mathematical Approaches
Chapter 11 Risk and Decision Analysis in Oil Operations
Chapter 12 Oil Reserves and Reserve Estimate
Section III Engineering Decisions through
Economic Impact Analysis:
Applications and Real World Examples
Section III.I Upstream Operations (Subsurface Operations)
Section III.II Upstream Operations (Subsurface
Operations): Exploration and Production (E&P)
Chapter 13 (E&P) Exploration, Drilling, and Oil Production—Part 1
Chapter 14 (E&P) Exploration, Drilling, and Oil Production—Part 2
Section III.III Middle Stream Operations: "Surface Operations"
Chapter 15 Principal Field Processing Operations and Field Facilities
Chapter 16 Fluids Separation
Chapter 17 Operations Handling Crude Oil: Treatment, Dehydration,
and Desalting
Chapter 18 Operations for Gas Handling (Conditioning), Treatment,
and Separation of NGL
Section III.IV Downstream Operations: Petroleum
Refining of Crude Oil Into Useful
Products (Three Parts) and Oil and
Gas Transportation (One Chapter)
Chapter 19 Crude Oil Refining—Part 1
Chapter 20 Crude Oil Refining—Part 2
Chapter 21 Crude Oil Refining—Part 3: Background on Modeling
and Computer Applications
Chapter 22 Oil and Gas Transportation
Biography
Hussein K. Abdel-Aal is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining, NRC, Cairo, Egypt. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1956 from Alexandria University and MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1962 and 1965, respectively, from Texas A&M University, College Station. Prof. Abdel-Aal joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (1971–1985). He was the head of department for the period 1972–1974. He was also Visiting Professor with the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M (1980–1981). In 1985–1988, he assumed the responsibility of the head of the Solar Energy Department, NRC, Cairo, before rejoining KFUPM for the period 1988–1998. Prof. Abdel-Aal conducted and coordinated projects involving a wide range of process development, feasibility studies, industrial research problems, and continuing education programs for many organizations, including Suez Oil Processing Company, Petromin in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Arab Petroleum Investment Corp in Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Hagler-Baily & Company, Washington DC, Mobil/Esso oil companies in Libya, and Kuwait oil companies. Prof. Abdel-Aal has contributed to more than 90 technical papers, is the editor of the book Petroleum Economics & Engineering, Third Edition, and is the main author of the textbook entitled Petroleum and Gas Field Processing, Second Edition. Both books were published by Taylor & Francis Group/CRC Press. Prof. Abdel-Aal is a member of AIChE, Sigma Si, and Phi Lambda Upsilon. He is a fellow and founding member of the board of directors of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy.
