Environmentally Conscious Petroleum Engineering

Environmentally Conscious Fossil Energy Production

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-86

  Awal, M Rafiqul ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E P industry motto and CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery; Environmental impact of wastes; Environmentally conscious petroleum engineering; Industrial hazardous waste generation and toxic chemical release; petroleum engineering as a formal engineering profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890595617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470432747.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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