Preface
This manuscript is an extension and update of Oil Field Chemicals, which appeared in 2003. The text focuses mainly on the organic chemistry of oil field chemicals. As indicated by the title, engineers with less background in organic chemistry are likely to use this text, so various sketches of the chemicals and additional explanations and comments are included in the text with which an educated organic chemist will certainly be familiar.
The material presented here is a compilation from the literature, including patents, arranged in the order needed by a typical job. It starts with drilling fluids and related classes of compounds, such as fluid loss, bit lubricants, etc. Then it crosses over to the next major topics: cementing, fracturing, enhanced recovery, and it ends with pipelines and spill.
Some of the chemicals are used in more than one main field; for example, surfactants are used in nearly all applications. To these chemicals the last three chapters are devoted. As environmental aspects are gaining increasing importance, this issue is dealt with carefully.
How to Use this Book
Index
There are four indices: an index of tradenames, an index of acronyms, an index of chemicals, and a general index.
If an acronym occurs for the first time in a chapter, it is expanded to its long form, e.g., acrylic acid (AA) and placed in the index. Subsequent occurrences only show the short form, i.e., AA. If the term occurs only once in a specific chapter, it is given exclusively in the long form.
In the chemical index, bold faced page numbers refer to the sketches of structural formulas or to reaction equations.
Bibliography
A bibliography is given for each chapter and is sorted in the order of occurrence. After the bibliography, a list of tradenames that are found in the references and which chemicals are behind these names, as far is known, is added.
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to our local library, Dr. C. Hasenhüttl, Dr. J. Delanoy, andreak Mr. C. Slamenik for support in literature acquisition. Thanks are given to Professor I. Lakatos, University of Miskolc, who directed my interest to this topic, and to my wife Margit who encouraged me to finalize the material when I felt exhausted. Last but not least, I want to thank the publisher for kind support, in particular Ken McCombs and Jill Leonard.
J.K.F.
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