Field Research Report
1. Identify the Right Information Sources
Identify 2 top journals/ conferences in my field.
TOP JOURNALS
1.AAPG BULLETIN 《美国石油地质学家协会通报》美国
2.PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 《石油科学与技术》美国
All candidates come in the journal list from Science Citation Index Expanded. By 8 th,2008, totally
26 journals have been accepted by SCIE. 11 domestic journals( 2 Russian translation copies included),
4 Britain journals, 2 Canadian and 2 German, China, France, Japan, Holland, Balin 1 each.
1.AAPG BULLETIN 《美国石油地质学家协会通报》美国 .Monthly
ISSN: 0149-1423
AMER ASSOC PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST, 1444 S BOULDER AVE, PO BOX 979, TULSA, USA, OK, 74119-3604
2. BULLETIN OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY 《加拿大石油地质学通报》加拿大
CANADIAN SOC PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, SUITE 600, 640 - 8TH AVE SW, CALGARY, CANADA, ALBERTA, T2P 1G7
3. CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF FUELS AND OILS 《燃料与石油化学和工艺学》美国
Bimonthly （俄罗斯与拉脱维亚合办的同名期刊的英文翻译版）
CONSULTANTS BUREAU/SPRINGER, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, USA, NY, 10013
4. CHINA PETROLEUM PROCESSING & PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 《中国炼油与石油化工》中国
CHINA PETROLEUM PROCESSING & PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY PRESS, NO 18 XUEYUAN RD, BEIJING, PEOPLES R CHINA, 100083
5. GEOARABIA 《中东石油地球科学杂志》巴林
GULF PETROLINK, PO BOX 20393, MANAMA, BAHRAIN, 00000
6. HYDROCARBON PROCESSING 《烃加工》美国
GULF PUBL CO, BOX 2608, HOUSTON, USA, TX, 77252-2608
7. INTERNATIONAL GAS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 《国际天然气工程与管理》英国
INST GAS ENGINEERS & MANAGERS, CHARNWOOD WING, HOLYWELL PARK, ASHBY RD LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND,
LE11 3GR
8. JOURNAL OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY 《加拿大石油技术杂志》加拿大
CANADIAN INST MINING METALLURGY PETROLEUM, 3400 DE MAISONNEUVE BLVD W, STE 855, MONTREAL, CANADA, PQ, H3Z 3B8
9. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS AND ENGINEERING 《地球物理学与工程学》英国
IOP PUBLISHING LTD, DIRAC HOUSE, TEMPLE BACK, BRISTOL, ENGLAND, BS1 6BE
10. JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY 《石油地质学杂志》英国
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, OXON, OX4 2DQ
11. JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING《石油科学和石油工程杂志》荷兰
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 1000 AE
12. JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE 《日本石油学会志》日本
JAPAN PETROLEUM INST, COSMO HIRAKAWA-CHO BLDG, 3-14, 1-CHOME HIRAKAWA-CHO, CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN, 102
13. OIL & GAS JOURNAL 《石油与天然气杂志》美国
PENNWELL PUBL CO ENERGY GROUP, 1421 S SHERIDAN RD PO BOX 1260, TULSA, USA, OK, 74112
14. OIL & GAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-REVUE DE L INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE 《石油、天然气的科学与技术；法国石油
研究所杂志》法国
EDITIONS TECHNIP, 27 RUE GINOUX, PARIS 15, FRANCE, 75737
15. OIL GAS-EUROPEAN MAGAZINE 《欧洲石油气杂志》德国
URBAN-VERLAG GMBH, PO BOX 70 16 06, HAMBURG, GERMANY, D-22016
16. OIL SHALE 《油页岩》爱沙尼亚
ESTONIAN ACAD PUBLISHERS, KOHTU 6, TALLINN, ESTONIA, EE-10130
17. PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY 《石油化学》美国 （俄罗斯同名刊(Нефтехимия)的英译版）
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, USA, NY, 10013-1578
18. PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE 《石油地质科学》英国
GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBL HOUSE, UNIT 7, BRASSMILL ENTERPRISE CENTRE, BRASSMILL LANE, BATH, ENGLAND, AVON, BA1 3JN
19. PETROLEUM SCIENCE 《石油科学》德国
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, D-69121
20. PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 《石油科学与技术》美国
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 325 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 800, PHILADELPHIA, USA, PA, 19106
21. PETROPHYSICS 《岩石物理学》美国
SOC PETROPHYSICISTS & WELL LOG ANALYSTS-SPWLA, 8866 GULF FREEWAY, STE 320, HOUSTON, USA, TX, 77017
22. SPE DRILLING & COMPLETION 《石油工程师协会钻井与完井》美国
SOC PETROLEUM ENG, 222 PALISADES CREEK DR,, RICHARDSON, USA, TX, 75080
23. SPE JOURNAL 《石油工程师协会杂志》美国
SOC PETROLEUM ENG, 222 PALISADES CREEK DR,, RICHARDSON, USA, TX, 75080
24. SPE PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS 《石油工程师协会生产和操作》美国
SOC PETROLEUM ENG, 222 PALISADES CREEK DR,, RICHARDSON, USA, TX, 75080
25. SPE RESERVOIR EVALUATION & ENGINEERING 《石油工程师协会油藏评估与工程》美国
SOC PETROLEUM ENG, 222 PALISADES CREEK DR,, RICHARDSON, USA, TX, 75080
26. VISION TECNOLOGICA 《技术视野》委内瑞拉
Irregular （委内瑞拉油气工业期刊）
INTEVEP S A, APARTADO POSTAL 76343, CARACAS, VENEZUELA, 1070-A
综合型期刊： AAPG BULLETIN 《美国石油地质学家协会通报》美国
OIL & GAS JOURNAL 《石油与天然气杂志》美国
PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY 《石油化学》美国
PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 《石油科学与技术》美国
BULLETIN OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY 《加拿大石油地质学通报》加拿大
GEOARABIA 《中东石油地球科学杂志》巴林
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS AND ENGINEERING 《地球物理学与工程学》英国
JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE 《日本石油学会志》日本
OIL & GAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-REVUE DE L INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE
OIL GAS-EUROPEAN MAGAZINE 《欧洲石油气杂志》德国
PETROLEUM SCIENCE 《石油科学》德国
地质方向的期刊：JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY 《石油地质学杂志》英国
OIL SHALE 《油页岩》爱沙尼亚
PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE 《石油地质科学》英国
PETROPHYSICS 《岩石物理学》美国
工程方向的期刊：CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF FUELS AND OILS 《燃料与石油化学和工艺学》美国
CHINA PETROLEUM PROCESSING & PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 《中国炼油与石油化工》中国
HYDROCARBON PROCESSING 《烃加工》美国
JOURNAL OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY 《加拿大石油技术杂志》加拿大
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING《石油科学和石油工程杂志》荷兰
SPE DRILLING & COMPLETION 《石油工程师协会钻井与完井》美国
SPE JOURNAL 《石油工程师协会杂志》美国
SPE PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS 《石油工程师协会生产和操作》美国
SPE RESERVOIR EVALUATION & ENGINEERING 《石油工程师协会油藏评估与工程》美国
管理方向的期刊：INTERNATIONAL GAS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 《国际天然气工程与管理》
TOP CONFERENCES
1.
WORLD PETROLEUM COUNCIL & CONGRESS
世界石油大会
World Petroleum Council Vision:
VISIT: http://www.world-petroleum.org/about/vision.htm
2. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
美国石油石油工程师协会年度会议
VISIT: http://www.spe.org/atce/2009/index.php
Due to the specialty of this field, every single conference contains a exhibition part. Entirely
academic meetings seem really difficult to dig. Also concerning on the regional diversity of the
petroleum resources, every continent holds their very own conference, Europe, Middle-east, Asia,
and America respectively. Considering the current situation, I chose a global conference and an
American-soil meeting as the top among all. For more information visit the address above.
Categorize papers & fields
The collected papers from AAPG from 2008 to 2009 shows the main frame of this subject
has been built up, except from some minor link within the system, and the specific research
in certain regions. This fact could also be noticed from the distribution of the indexed
journals. The whole industry executes standards accordingly. Based on the current fields
Stanford and UC Berkley presented, Petroleum engineering has the following sub-fields:
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Reservoir Engineering
Drilling
Applied Geophysics
Rock Mechanics.
Reservoir engineering
A branch of PE, that applies scientific principles to the drainage problems arising during the
development and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to obtain a high economic recovery. The
working tools of the reservoir engineer are subsurface geology, applied mathematics, and the basic
laws of physics and chemistry governing the behavior of liquid and vapor phases of crude oil,natural
gas, and water in reservoir rock.
Of particular interest to reservoir engineers is generating accurate reserves estimates for use in
financial report. Other job responsibilities include numerical reservoir modeling, production
forecasting, well testing, well drilling and workover planning, economic modeling, and PVT analysis of
reservoir fluids.
Reservoir engineers also play a central role in field development planning, recommending appropriate
and cost effective reservoir depletion schemes such as water flooding or gas injection to maximize
hydrocarbon recovery.
This branch is more concerning on the efficiency and business availability.
Drilling
A totally applied science, a part of PE, specifically contains well-testing, drilling, well-completion,
well-stabilizing, Water-injection and well network planning.
Applied Geophysics & rock mechanics
Mainly support the main course by a series of method, remote sensing, seismic tomography and
imaging, Analysis of repeated seismic data (four-dimensional), Reservoir seismic and rock physics.
The Forefront
1.
Enhanced oil recovery.
On the respect of oil recovery, enhanced oil recovery, AKA tertiary oil recovery, (EOR) is and
for the long term will be the forefront of petroleum recovery, especially for developing
country.
2. Vertical drilling technology.
3. Ocean drilling platform.
Specially for China
4. Deep-featured oil recovery, low permeability oil recovery.
Needy worldwide.
Some of my perception
As far as I concerned, petroleum engineering (PE) is currently a highly developed and well-organized
industry. PE now can be divided into four sub-fields, in the order of sequence. In the process of a
reservoir development, firstly, given the theoretical support, using some certain sensing methods to
explore and locate the reservoir. Then an assessment should be undergoing to make sure the profit
and business availability by consider the combining of all the geological conditions, expected reservoir
volume, and the cost. This part is requires highly integrated knowledge structure, keen business
analysis, a round grasp of the current tech and its advantages and disadvantages, then application of a
whole drilling process, and a series of sequent work, Finally entering the oil-producing phase. The
whole process could be summed into four steps: exploration, reservoir assess, drilling, producing.
What I found intrigued is the assessment and drilling process.
As a highly developed subject, entirely
academic lifestyle, AKA faculty, suits me not. I want be as much as involves in business and application
joint.
As for the forefront of this subject, a great amount of them requires the integration of the several
independent subjects, such as chemistry (for special materials EOR), biology (for microbiology EOR),
computer science (for the software support of Ocean platform and vertical drilling tech). So to think
outside the box the forefront of this subject relies on the development of the listed subjects.
Even
optimistically speaking, there will be an adaption period for each technology respectively. Current
mature applications will be soon overwhelmed in the foreseeable future. Actually the bottleneck of
this field is just the forefront of this field. Conventional methods
A special interest: Petroleum Asset Risk Management
A integrated project specially embedded into the second process of a development of petroleum, as I
said above, I found intrigued in the combining fields of petroleum application and business.
A classical asset lifecycle contains five steps(procedures): appraisal and conceptual analysis—evaluate
alternatives—define selected alternatives—execute—operate, as displayed.
REFERENCES
SCIENDE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED – ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM – JOURNALS LIST
http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=D&SC=IP
CONFERNECE LIST - Energy Science and Technology
http://www.meeting.edu.cn/webmedia/oemui/en/conlist.asp?subject_id=72
WORLD PETROLEUM COUNCIL
http://www.world-petroleum.org/
http://www.world-petroleum.org/about/vision.htm
WORLD GAS CONFERENCE
http://www.wgc2009.com/Conference.asp
SPE: MEETINGS & EVENTS
http://www.spe.org/spe-app/spe/events/index.htm
SPE MEETING CALENDER
http://www.spe.org/spe-app/jsp/siteFunctionality/meetingCalendar.jsp
SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
http://www.spe.org/atce/2009/
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_engineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Petroleum_Engineering_and_Applied_Geophy
sics,_NTNU
Scholar Google
http://scholar.google.cn
Stanford School of earth science
http://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/research/index.html
UC Berkley
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/geo/degrees/areas.html#petroleum