Introduction to Petroleum Production 1
Introduction Petroleum materials and the petroleum production industry had played a crucial role in modern world history and economic development. Petroleum and its derivative products remain one of the most important material on earth with applications in almost all works of life. Petroleum is number one choice of clean fuel for the past 50 years providing fuel energy for humanity and our industries.The derived petrochemicals had been applied in developing a vast array of products that is being utilized and consumed in almost all industrial sectors and all works of life from the food production industry to the industrial machine/materials manufacturing and transportation industry. Yet deliberate access to geologic formations bearing petroleum through drilled wells is relatively recent. The first commercial oil well drilled in world history is the the Drake well drilled in 1859 in Pennsylvania USA. Oil and gas exploration and production activities was dominated by the Americans t...