本书涵盖了油层物理、渗流力学、油藏工程、采油工程、钻井、完井、测井、增产增注、提高采收率、石油与环境保护等内容。全书按石油工程专业学科内容进行编排．同时插入了大量的图片和图表，克服了传统教材的呆板。该书题材广泛、内容丰富、重点突出、难度适中，具有系统性和可读性。
本书可作为石油高等院校石油工程专业的教材。也可作为现场技术人员的英语培训和职称考试参考用书。

Chapter 1 The History of Petroleum Industry
1.1 The Initial Realization of Oil
1.2 The Search for Light
1.3 The Birth of the Industry
1.4 Spindletop
1.5 The Modem Progress of Petroleum Industry
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Chapter 2 The Physical Characteristics of Reservoir
2.1 Properties of Reservoir Rocks
2.2 Reservoir Fluids
2.3 Reservoir Fluid Behavior
2.4 Fluid Flow in the Reservoir
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Chapter 3 Basic Drilling Technology
3.1 History and Drilling Environments
3.2 Rotary Drilling Process
3.3 The Main Component Parts of a Rotary Rig
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Chapter 4 Primary Cementing
4.1 Cementing Materials
4.2 Cement Additives
4.3 Cement Bonding
4.4 Flow Properties of Primary Cements
4.5 Displacement Mechanics
4.6 Primary Cementing Practices
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Chapter 5 Logging
5.1 Why Run Logs
5.2 Logging Car, Cable and General Mounting
5.3 Electrical Logging
5.4 Nuclear Logging
5.5 Acoustic Log
5.6 Mud Logging
5.7 Some Other Types of Logs
5.8 Computer Generated Logs
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Chapter 6 Well Completions
6.1 Completion Methods
6.2 Completion Interval Selection
6.3 Types of Completion Arrangements
6.4 Well Completion Design
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Chapter 7 Production Teelmology
7.1 Inflow Performance
7.2 Wellbore Flow Performance
7.3 Artificial Lift
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Chapter 8 Stimulation
8.1 Acidizing
8.2 Hydraulic Fracturing
8.3 Physical Methods to Stimulation
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Chapter 9 Improved Oil Recovery
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Water Flooding and Recovery Efficiency
9.3 Chemical Recovery Processes
9.4 Thermal Recovery Processes
9.5 Miscible Recovery Processes
9.6 Microbial EOR
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Chapter 10 Reservoir Management
10.1 Natural Drive Mechanisms
10.2 Flood Patterns
10.3 Material Balance
10.4 Reservoir Economics
10.5 Simulation
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Chapter 11 The Petroleum Industry and the Environment
11.1 Environmental Impact of the Petroleum Industry
11.2 Environmental Forces Changing the Petroleum Industry situation
11.3 Waste Management and Minimization
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