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Water Management. Oil and gas operations use and produce signifi- cant amounts of water over the life of a field. Costs associated with acquiring, treating and disposing of this water have had an impact on our industry. Operators can now employ a wide range of technologies to help reclaim, renew and reuse oilfield waters.


Downhole Corrosion Monitoring. Corrosion is an expensive problem for the oil and gas industry. Identifying and monitoring it in downhole pipe strings are important elements of field maintenance. This article describes the latest generation of downhole tools to detect corrosion based on electromagnetic induction measurements. Also discussed are the physics of the measurement and the tool capabilities for assessing corrosion and pitting in both single and multiple strings.


Field Revitalization. Although waterflooding is generally an efficient technique for revitalizing production in older fields, it can lead to compli- cations over time. Once a prolific producer, the Casabe field in Colombia has been enhanced under waterflood since 1975. Complex structures and lithology caused well collapse and early water breakthrough. Subsequently, water injection was ramped down and production declined significantly. Since 2004 a major reengineering project has produced results that doubled production and increased recovery factor. This article investigates the challenges in the area and the methods used to overcome them.


Sand: The Never-Ending Story Michael Welland University of California Press 2120 Berkeley Way Berkeley, California 94704 USA 2009. 360 pages. US $24.95 ISBN 978-0-5202-5437-4


The story of one of nature’s most ubiquitous and diverse materials, this book examines the science of sand forensics, the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology and archaeology—along with its role in human history and commerce. Geologist Welland describes how this humble material has made possible computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics and paper. The book also explores the human context of sand by interweaving tales of artists, mathema - ticians, explorers and even a vampire.


Contents: • Individuals: Birth and Character


• Tribes: The Strange World of Granular Materials


• Sand and Imagination I: Very Large Numbers of Very Small Things


• Societies on the Move: A Journey to the Sea


• Moving On: Waves, Tides, and Storms


• Blowing in the Wind: Desert Landscapes


• Witness: Testaments of Sand


• Sand and Imagination II: Stories, Medium, and Muse


• Servant: Sand in Our Lives


• Outward and Onward: Beyond Earth, Beyond the Present


• Epilogue: A Desert Mystery • Sources and Further Reading, Index


There are worlds to see in a grain of sand, and a world of fascinating information in this book.


Perkins S: Science News 175, no. 5 (February 28, 2009): 31.


The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis of


Porous Media (Second Edition) Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji and Jack Dvorkin Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10013 USA 2009. 544 pages. US $64.00 ISBN 978-0-521-86136-6


This text combines the theoretical and empirical relations that form the foun- dations of rock physics, with particular emphasis on seismic properties. In 76 articles, it also includes commonly used models and relations for electrical and dielectric rock properties. Useful empir- ical results on reservoir rocks and sedi- ments, granular media, tables of mineral data and an atlas of reservoir rock properties are also included.


Contents: • Basic Tools


• Elasticity and Hooke’s Law • Seismic Wave Propagation


• Effective Elastic Media: Bounds and Mixing Laws • Granular Media • Fluid Effects on Wave Propagation • Empirical Relations • Flow and Diffusion • Electrical Properties


• Appendices, References, Index If you do not own this book, I can


assure you that it will be a valuable addition to your library. Of course I am thinking the geophysics community. The book is also an excellent reference book for geomechanic specialists, petrophysicists, hydrologists, geolo- gists, reservoir engineers, drilling engi- neers, production technologists, environmental scientists, seismologists, and mining engineers. I strongly rec- ommend that anyone who has an inter- est in subsurface characterization and modeling studies look at the extensively tested techniques covered in the book.


Tutuncu AN: The Leading Edge 28, no. 10 (October 2009): 1272−1273.


Climate Change: Picturing


the Science Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe W.W. Norton & Company 500 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10110 USA 2009. 320 pages. US $24.95 ISBN 978-0-393-33125-7


The authors combine scientific analysis with impressive photography to illus- trate the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem. With contribu- tions from 16 scientists, engineers, writ- ers, activists and photographers, NASA climate scientist Schmidt and photogra- pher Wolfe address a host of observable climate changes: melting ice and per- mafrost at the poles; rising sea levels in cities; increasing drought, forest fires and extreme storms; and the buildup of industrial and agricultural chemicals.


Contents:


• Symptoms: Taking the Temperature of the Planet; Changes in the North; Sea Changes; Going to Extremes; The Life of the Party


• Diagnosis: Climate Drivers; Studying Climate; The Prognosis for the Climate


• Possible Cures: Getting Our Technological Fix; Preventative Planetary Care; A Final Note


• Further Reading, Contributor Biographies, Index


The graphics nicely achieve the


editors’ objective of illustrating the sci- ence, but the book’s real strength is in the essays. Schmidt and Wolfe bring together an impressive array of con- tributors to provide lucid, informative discussions of the key issues in climate science and policy.


Hewitt WF: “The Big Picture,” Nature, http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0906/full/ climate.2009.45.html (accessed January 3, 2010).


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