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International Petroleum Encyclopedia 1996
International Petroleum Encyclopedia 1996 Author:Price Stern Sloan Publishing, Intl Petroleum This book/CD-ROM set is a comprehensive reference for the petroleum industry. It includes industry statistics, maps, charts and articles. The atlas covers: Europe, CIS, Middle East, the Gulf of Mexico, Asia-Pacific, the North Sea, North America, Africa, Latin America and China. It also includes a world oil flow map. Useful insights by the editor... more »s of the "Oil and Gas Journal" cover: the future of world petrochemicals; LPG supply and demand; World LNG trade; how government exploration and production terms have evolved; the tanker industry; United States pipeline safety; non-OPEC oil supply, gas processing, onshore benefits of offshore exploration and development, world heavy oil development, United States resource base, future motor fuels, industry steps up power generation, Univted States reformulated gas update, world gas production and consumption, world products consumption, world oil flow map and prices. The industry statistics include: new stratigraphic chart entries; a directory of state oil company charts, assays of key world crudes; industry spending; refining throughput; prices; a refining survey; a gas processing table; historical reserves; active rigs and seismic crews; world oil production and reserves; US giant oil fields; US drilling costs; pipelines; gas production; and a chronology of the year in review. The CD-ROM of the "International Petroleum Encyclopedia" contains industry statistics, maps, charts and articles in a user-friendly Windows environment. This self-contained program is loaded with the most widely requested data in a cross-referenced format that links users to other useful information. Other features include: easy pull-down menus which guide users straight to important facts and figures; search functions allow quick finds of specific information, whether it's a country, region, statistics, photographs or reports; colour-coded regions make it easy to find specific areas; photographs appear on screen to accompany articles; bookmarks flag critical information for convenient repeated usage; special links refer to other related text, atlases, surveys, maps, charts and photographs; and a print capability allows for ink-jet or laser printers to obtain a hard copy of the on-screen information.« less