Table of Contents

• Preface
• Origins of oil and gas
• Oil overview
• Natural gas overview
• Searching for and evaluating oil and gas
• Drilling and completion: Onshore
• Drilling and completion: Offshore
• Managing oil and gas production
• Transporting oil
• Transporting natural gas by pipeline
• Transporting natural gas as LNG
• Converting oil into products
• Converting natural gas into products
• Petroleum industry structure
• Petroleum trading
• Emerging challenges for the petroleum industry
• Appendix A: Terms, abbreviations, and acronyms
• Appendix B: Further reading
• Appendix C: Organizations, agencies, and professional societies

About the Author

Joseph F. Hilyard has more than 30 years of professional experience as a communicator on energy and environmental topics. Prior to 2005, Hilyard worked for more than 20 years with the Chicago-based Gas Research Institute (now operating as GTI), first evaluating proposed research programs to develop natural gas–related technologies and later managing the firm’s public relations and communications programs. Most recently, he worked with PennWell Corporation to compile and edit the annual editions of PennWell’s 400-page International Petroleum Encyclopedia for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Hilyard holds a B.S degree in mechanical engineering and an M.A. degree in journalism.