Principles of Oil and Gas Production

Abstract

THIS book should be of especial usefulness owing to its combination of practical in formation, including branches of the subject not usually considered in general text-books on oil-mining, and its clear and accurate statements of scientific principles. The twenty-three chapters may be divided into thtee groups: the first is devoted to the chemistry, physical qualities, and geology of oil and natural gas; the second includes eleven chapters on the development and management of oil and gas wells; and the third, consisting of one chapter which occupies nearly a third of the book, gives a most useful summary of existing knowledge of the oil and gas fields of North America.

Principles of Oil and Gas Production.

By Prof. B. H. Johnson L. G. Huntley. Pp. xv + 371. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1916.) Price 16s. net.