petroleum engineering: References & Edit History

Two informative works for the general reader are Norman J. Hyne, Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production , 3rd ed. (2012); and Martin Raymond and William L. Leffler, Oil and Gas Production in Nontechnical Language , 2nd ed. (2017). William C. Lyons, Gary J. Plisga, and Michael Lorenz, Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering , 3rd ed. (2015), is a technical book.

In reservoir engineering, standard textbooks are B.C. Craft and M.F. Hawkins, Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering , 3rd ed. rev. by Ronald E. Terry and J. Brandon Rogers (2013); L.P. Dake, Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering (1978, 1st ed., reprinted 2010); and George B. Asquith et al., Basic Well Log Analysis , 2nd ed. (2004). L.P. Dake, The Practice of Reservoir Engineering , rev. ed. (2001), is oriented toward working petroleum engineers.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers, a worldwide professional body, publishes the Journal of Petroleum Technology in addition to several specialized technical journals.