Overview
- Covers every major aspect in a concise way
- Based on the highly rated course "Petroleum Science and Technology"
- Complete view of the industry, presented with numerous examples
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About this book
In addition to drawing on the authors' previous books, it includes teaching material from several courses. These include workshops provided for top petroleum companies and a highly rated course taught at the Florida A&M University/Florida State University (USA).
Keywords
- Exploration for crude oil discovery
- Petroleum refining
- Production for crude oil recovery
- Desalting of crude oil
- Distillation of crude oil
- Hydrotreating of crude oil
- Petroleum products
- Cracking of petroleum
- Coking of petroleum
- Visbreaking of petroleum
- Chemical Process Reliability, Safety and Risk
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
During his 40 years in commercial energy, Dr. Paul Robinson visited more than 140 sites in 34 countries on 5 Continents, At nearly half of those sites, he led or participated in projects or provided operations support. He started his career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his research focused on generating hydrogen with thermochemical cycles for water-splitting. He then spent more than 30 years in various roles at Unocal, Chevron, and Shell. At Unocal, he developed hydrotreating catalysts, studies convresion of syngas to alcohols, and became Regional Manager for Japan and Southeast Asia on the technology licensing group. Along the way, he received two creativity awards and a patent achievement award. As a senior engineer at Chevron and Shell, he received several special recognition awards while providing process monitoring, operations support, and troubleshooting for commercial hydroprocessing units. At AspenTech. he became Advisor and Best Practice Leader for online optimization of hydrocracking units. In this role, he co-developed Aspen Hydrocracker which was based on a model developed by Sun Oil Company and implemented online. in 2016, he founded the Katy Institute for Sustainable Energy, a non-proft organization devoted to stimulating science-based dialog on energy. Dr. Robinson earned BS (Honors) and MA degrees at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He spent a year at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, before receiving a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California atSan Diego. He has authored or co-authored more than 105 publications and presentations, including 2 books and 15 book chapters. He holds 11 patents, primarily on catalysts and process technology. He serves as Public Policy Chair for the Energy and Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society. He is especially proud of his wonderful family and his black belt in TaeKwonDo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Petroleum Science and Technology
Book Subtitle: Upstream
Authors: Chang Samuel Hsu, Paul R. Robinson
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46640-3Due: 26 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46643-4Due: 26 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46641-0Due: 26 June 2024
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour