"Recent Insights in Petroleum Science and Engineering" ed. by Mansoor Zoveidavianpoor

This book presents new insights into the development of different aspects of petroleum science and engineering. The book contains chapters divided into two main sections: Exploration and Production and Environmental Solutions.

The book written by numerous prominent scholars clearly shows the necessity of the multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development in the petroleum industry and stresses the most updated topics such as EOR and environmental cleanup of fossil fuel wastes.

Contents
1 Petroleum Source Rocks Characterization and Hydrocarbon Generation
2 Petroleum Extraction Engineering
3 Optimal Planning for Deepwater Oilfield Development Under Uncertainties of Crude Oil Price and Reservoir
4 Drilling Fluids for Deepwater Fields: An Overview
5 Evaluation of Different Correlation Performance for the Calculation of the Critical Properties and Acentric Factor of Petroleum Heavy Fractions
6 Characterization of Crude Oils and the Precipitated Asphaltenes Fraction using UV Spectroscopy, Dynamic Light Scattering and Microscopy
7 Density Anomalies in Crude Oil Blends Reflect Multiple Equilibrium States of Asphaltene Colloidal Aggregates
8 A Realistic Look at Nanostructured Material as an Innovative Approach for Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Upgrading
9 Lessons Learned from Our Recent Research in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (C-EOR) Methods
10 Numerical Study of Low Salinity Water Flooding in Naturally Fractured Oil Reservoirs
11 Experimental Study of the Effect of Composite Solvent and Asphaltenes Contents on Efficiency of Heavy Oil Recovery Processes at Injection of Light Hydrocarbons
12 Total Acid Number Reduction of Naphthenic Acids Using Supercritical Fluid and Ionic Liquids
13 Conducting Polymers Films Deposited on Carbon Steel and Their Interaction with Crude Oil
14 Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene by Pseudomonas fluorescens (UCP 1514) Leading to the Production of Biphenyl
15 Reduction in the Sulfur Content of Fossil Fuels by Cunninghamella elegans (UCP 0596) to Dibenzothiophene Compound
16 Microbial Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Marine Environments
17 Petroleum Degradation: Promising Biotechnological Tools for Bioremediation
18 Organic Contaminants in Refinery Wastewater: Characterization and Novel Approaches for Biotreatment
19 Analytical Methods for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Global Trend of Distribution in Water and Sediment: A Review