Advanced Natural Gas Engineering

This book addresses unique issues and many challenges in the entire food chain of natural gas engineering related to upstream, midstream and downstream. It can serve as a reference book for all engineers in the energy business, a textbook for students in petroleum and chemical engineering curricula and a handbook for training departments of a large group of companies. Book jacket.

Xiuli Wang is the vice president and chief technology officer of XGAS, a natural gas conversions and transportation company in Houston, TX. Prior to that, she was employed by BP for seven years in both technology and business units with roles such as reservoir engineer, completion engineer, lead production engineer and project manager. She is the associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, and in 2007, she was named the US Asian-AmericanEngineer of the Year. Michael Economides holds many positions including professor at the University of Houston, managing partner of an industrial consulting firm and editor-in-chief of Energy Tribune. He has written 14 textbooks and more than 200 journal papers and articles and is considered by many to be the premier world expert on Che geopolitics of energy.