本书立足于石油专业知识，简要且全面地说明了石油工业上、中、下游各领域的基础知识，内容涵盖石油工业现状与可持续性、非常规油气资源、油气地质与勘探、油气开发工程、油气集输及炼化等几大方面。本书分为10部分，共20课，每课由课文、词汇、翻译练习、阅读与表达四部分组成。文后同时配有翻译练习。
本书可以作为石油高校英语专业和非英语专业的科技翻译教材，也可以作为翻译硕士（MTI）的专门用途英语（ESP）教材，对石油科技英语的爱好者也具有一定的参考价值，尤其适合对石油石化行业感兴趣、旨在开展石油石化行业语言服务的学习者使用。

Part Ⅰ Petroleum Industry: Status and Sustainability
Lesson 1 Energy Production, Consumption, and Carbon Emissions
Lesson 2 Sustainable Development Strategies in Petroleum Industries
Part Ⅱ Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources
Lesson 3 The Economic Possibilities of Exploiting the World's Non-Conventional Resources
Lesson 4 Hydrogen Energy Challenges and Solutions for a Cleaner Future
Part Ⅲ Petroleum Geology and Exploration
Lesson 5 Elements of Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Systems
Lesson 6 Exploitation Technologies of Oil & Gas
Part Ⅳ Oil and Gas Production Engineering
Lesson 7 Drilling Engineering
Lesson 8 Reservoir Engineering
Lesson 9 Production Engineering
Part Ⅴ Petroleum Gathering, Transportation and Refining
Lesson 10 Petroleum Refining and Supply
Part Ⅵ Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Oil and Gas Industry
Lesson 11 Artificial Intelligence in Oil and Gas Upstream
Lesson 12 Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry
Part Ⅶ Cross-border Oil and Gas Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions 112
Lesson 13 Status of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Petroleum Industry
Lesson 14 The Responsiveness of Global E&P Industry in Petroleum Prices
Part Ⅷ HSE and Environmental Protection in Oil Exploitation
Lesson 15 HSE Culture as a Panacea to Redefining HSE
Lesson 16 Environmental Management in Oil & Gas Industry
Part Ⅸ Engineering Ethics and Translation Ethics
Lesson 17 Engineering Ethics
Lesson 18 Translation, Ethies, and Social Responsibility
Part Ⅹ China's Low-carbon Strategy—A Boost for Global Green Development
Lesson 19 Green and Low-carbon Circular Economic Development System
Lesson 20 Advances in Carbon Capture and Utilization
Answers to Translation Exercises
Vocabulary
References