Petroleum Engineering Articles and Guides

The atmospheric distillation unit (ADU), or crude distillation unit (CDU), is the first process every barrel meets in a refinery. […]

A Field Development Plan (FDP) is the document that defines how a discovered accumulation will be developed, produced and finally […]

Fittings change direction, change diameter, split or join flow and close pipe ends. Their curved or intersecting geometry concentrates stress […]

NPV and IRR Analysis for Petroleum Projects: Decline Curve Integration, WACC Calculation, and Capital Allocation The net present value and […]

A flanged joint is the most common removable pressure boundary in petroleum plants and one of the most common sources […]

Petroleum economics converts a dated technical forecast into project cash flows under explicitly defined commercial and fiscal assumptions. Production, price, […]

Valves are the most numerous components in a refinery or gas plant, and each one is a set of decisions: […]

Process plants connect field instruments, controllers, safety systems and business networks through several layers of communication. At the field level, […]

A hot pipe grows. If its growth is restrained, the pipe and the equipment nozzles it connects to take the […]

Hydrocarbon accounting determines how much oil and gas each party produced, transported and sold. Every allocated barrel traces back to […]