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The long awaited third edition of Properties of Petroleum Fluids covers all the essential components, properties, and equations for the various fluids and gases. Esteemed author William McCain, has expanded and revised his book to now include new and updated correlations and rules for preparing values of nearly all the fluid properties required by petroleum engineers. The third edition also includes new research on asphaltenes and gas hydrates and two new chapters on gas condensates and volatile oils.

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Author:   William D. McCain Jr
Publisher:   PennWell Books
Imprint:   PennWell Books
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Weight:   1.099kg
ISBN:  

9781593703738

ISBN 10:   1593703732
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

A Brief Review of Organic Chemistry Petroleum Phase Behavior The Five Reservoir Fluids Properties of Gases: Ideal Gas and Real Gas Equations of State Properties of Dry Gases Properties of Wet Gases Properties of Gas Condensates: Reservoir Fluid Studies Properties of Gas Condensates: Application of Reservoir Fluid Studies Properties of Black Oils: Definitions Properties of Black Oils: Reservoir Fluid Studies Properties of Black Oils: Application of Reservoir Fluid Studies Properties of Black Oils: Field Data for Use in Correlations Properties of Black Oils: Correlations Volatile Oils Properties of Oilfield Waters Clathrate Hydrates of Petroleum

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William D. McCain Jr. has been a visiting professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University since 1991. He also has a petroleum consulting firm, McCain Engineering.McCain started his engineering career with Esso (now Exxon) Research Laboratories in 1956.He was professor and head of the petroleum engineering department at Mississippi State University from 1965 to 1976. He taught petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University from 1984 through 1987. McCain was a consulting petroleum engineer with Cawley, Gillespie & Associates from 1987 until 1991. He was then with S.A. Holditch & Associates from 1991 until 2000, retiring as executive vice president, chief engineer, and member of the board of directors. His engineering specialties within the company were properties of petroleum fluids and reservoir engineering, especially for gas condensates and volatile oils.He holds four US patents, has published more than 60 technical articles, wrote two editions of The Properties of Petroleum Fluids (PennWell) and was coauthor of Petroleum Reservoir Fluid Property Correlations (PennWell). He holds a BS degree from Mississippi State College and MS and PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. He is also a graduate of the US Army War College.

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