INTEGRATED HYDROCARBON FIELD MANAGEMENT: How to be successful in discovering and developing oil and gas fields?

Dear readers, the pages of the book, that you now have within your reach, constitute the legacy I leave to my colleagues from the oil industry, similar and unrelated professionals. It is also a great asset for everyone interested in knowing more about the oil industry as a fundamental support capable of generating and supplying the energy that makes the world move. Moreover, the legacy that I have put into words throughout this book is not a literary or academic exercise, but rather the result of a long journey undertaken more than four decades ago, when I started my professional career in Venezuela. From then on, I have had the best experiences and opportunities that life could have offered me along the way, such as new and continuous technical and managerial learning experiences, including a consistent career development plan and a wellrooted value system with professional ethics and human values.By following the roadmap on this book, which consists of seven milestones or chapters, you will be able to find out, and specifically when reading the introduction section, that the exploration, production and marketing processes, in the oil industry value chain model, does not follow a linear path, as it has traditionally been considered, but rather it is a value chain consisting of virtuous cycles at each stage, which keep improving on a continuous basis until it reaches the maximum cumulative reserve extraction level. The initial exploration stage will give you the opportunity to understand that multidisciplinary team working is one of the main key success factors associated with the discovery of new hydrocarbon fields and reservoirs. It will also show you how to prepare the initial development plan. Read more