随着石油工程国际合作项目的日益增多，我国各石油企业对高职高专毕业生英语交流水平的要求也逐步提高。从培养从事国际合作业务、参与国际竞争的技术应用型人才的要求出发，本教材较系统地介绍了石油工业各方面的词汇和术语，内容涵盖了油气勘探、开发、储运和炼制等方面的专业知识。在教材编写过程中，作者广泛参阅了国际最新的石油科技杂志和专著，选材力求具有新颖性和实用性，语言技能训练根据专业需要有所侧重，适用对象广泛，可作为高职高专石油与天然气地质勘探、钻井工程、油气开采、油气储运等专业的专业英语课教材，也可作为石油、石化现场技术人员的培训、自学用书。

本教材较系统地介绍了石油工业各方面的词汇和术语，内容涵盖了油气勘探、开发、储运和炼制等方面的专业知识，每个单元均附有重点词汇、练习和1～2篇与课文相关的阅读材料。

本书适合作为高职高专石油与天然气地质勘探、钻井工程、油气开采、油气储运等专业的专业英语课教材，也可作为石油、石化现场技术人员的培训、自学用书。

Unit 1 Knowledge of the Earth

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 The Earth

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 What information do we want from rocks?

Unit 2 Petroleum Geology

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 Geology and Petroleum

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 The Traps

 Petroleum Geology and Other Sciences

Unit 3 Drilling Equipment

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 Rig Components

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Top Drives

Unit 4 Drilling Engineering

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 Drilling Operations

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Drilling a Straight Hole

Unit 5 Well Control

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 Warning Signals of Kicks

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Methods of Killing the Well

Unit 6 Cementing

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 Conventional Primary Cementing

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 One Composition and Hydration of Oil well Cement

Unit 7 Logging

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 Oil Well Mud logging

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Lithologic Logging

Unit 8 Drilling Fluid

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 Oil Well Drilling Fluid

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Low-solid Fluid

Unit 9 Environment, Health and Safety (HSE)

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 API Environment, Health and Safety

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Environmental Commitment to Exploring, Drilling' and Production

Unit 10 Reservoir Engineering (Ⅰ)

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 Reservoir Rocks and their Properties

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Porosity

 Permeability

Unit 11 Reservoir Engineering (Ⅱ)

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 Development of Oil Fields

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Drives in the Reservoir

 Reservoir-performance Curves

Unit 12 Mechanical Recovery

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 The Beam Pumping System

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Valve Action

Unit 13 Water flood Development

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 Waterflooding and Its History

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Enhanced Oil Recovery Injection Water

Unit 14 Stimulation Techniques (Ⅰ)

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 Hydraulic Fracturing

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Application of the GasGunTM in Kansas Oil and Gas Operations

Unit 15 Stimulation Techniques (Ⅱ)

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 Acidizing

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Arcasolve at Matrix Acidizing

Unit 16 Enhanced Oil Recovery

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 Oil Recovery

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

Unit 17 Geophysical Exploration

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 Geophysical Exploration

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Seismic Exploration

Unit 18 Well Logging

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 Conventional Logging Methods

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Well Logs

Unit 19 Oil Transportation

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 Oil Transportation

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Gas Pipeline

Unit 20 Oil Refining

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 Oil Refining

 Exercises

 Extensive Reading

 Refining Petroleum

 An Introduction to Refining and Refinery Products