Standard Methods for Testing Petroleum and its Products

Abstract

THE first edition of "Standard Methods"appeared in 1924, initially at the instigation of Sir Boverton Redwood and following labours of the pioneer committee under Prof. Brame. During the ensuing twenty-four years the volume has steadily grown in stature and authority ; once again, in this ninth edition we recognize a mandate for laboratory procedure which for long past has commanded international respect. As is the case with preparation of other ‘standards', whether governing quality of materials or guiding methods by which that quality is assessed, few realize the enormous amount of work put in voluntarily by specialists representing every possible angle of the subject concerned. Standardization committees are notoriously time-consuming bodies, and this particular case has clearly been no exception; apart from the main committee, no less, than sixty-two sub-committees, panels and working groups, involving some two hundred and seventy experts, contributed to this considerable task, and it may be said at once that it has been worthily discharged.

Standard Methods for Testing Petroleum and its Products

Ninth edition. Pp. xlviii + 616. (London : Institute of Petroleum, 1948.) 31s.