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Preface

This book is written mainly for two groups of readers: engineering students
studying petroleum and chemical engineering and graduate engineers
whose major interest is gas and petroleum production and processing
operations. The book is arranged so that it can be used as both a text and a
reference. As a text, the organization of materials permits flexibility in
designing courses in this field for both undergraduate and postgraduate
students.
The subject matter is based on lectures given and notes prepared by the
authors and materials taken from the literature. It provides well-organized
theoretical and technical background knowledge on oil and gas field
operations. Emphasis is given to the separation of the produced reservoir
fluids, oil, gas, and water, and their subsequent treatments at various stages
in the oil field in order to produce marketable quantities of oil and gas.
The preparation of the book was a joint effort of Dr. Abdel-Aal and
the coauthors, who wrote chapters for which they were especially qualified
and possess valuable experience. Dr. Aggour prepared Chapters 1, 4, and 9
and coauthored Chapters 3 and 5 with Dr. Abdel-Aal. Dr. Fahim prepared
Chapters 6, 11, and 12. Dr. Abdel-Aal wrote Chapters 2, 7, 8, 10, and 13.
Significant contributions to the editing of the final manuscript and some
major additions to other chapters are credited to Dr. Aggour, on top of the
five chapters for which he had primary responsibility.
Following the Introduction, the book contains 13 chapters grouped
into four parts. Part I offers general background on the production of oil
and gas and crude oil composition. Part II is concerned with the separation
of the produced fluids: both two- and three-phase separation. Treatment of
the produced fluids—namely, crude oil and water—is considered in Part III,
which includes dehydration, desalting, stablization/sweetening of crude oil,
and water treatment. Finally, Part IV deals with field processing and
treatment of natural gas, which covers dehydration and hydrate inhibition,
sweetening (acidic gas removal), and separation and fractionation of natural
gas constituents.

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