Volume 86
Petroleum Development and Technology 1930 Papers Presented before the Division at Tulsa, October 3-4, and Los Angeles, October 4-5, 1929, and New York, February 18-20, 1930
Title Page
Contents
Officers of Institute and of Petroleum Division
Letter of Transmittal- J. B. Umpleby
Plans of Petroleum Division for 1930 - C. V. Millikan

PAPERS:

Chapter I. Unitization

TITLE AUTHOR
Introduction  
Committee Reports  
General Summary - By Unitization Committee  
Unit Operations in Eastern United States and Foreign Countries H. H. Hill and E. L. Estabrook
Unitized Operations in Oklahoma and Kansas A. W. Ambrose and C. E. Beecher
Unit Operation and Unitization in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico F. H. Labee
Study of Unitization in the Rocky Mountain Region F. E. Wood
Salt Creek (Rocky Mountain Unitization Committee)  
Unit Operation in the Rock River Filed. Wyoming Wilson B. Emery
Unit Operations as Proposed for the Hiawatha, South Baxter Basin and North Baxter Basin Gas Fields in Southwest Wyoming and Northwest Colorado W. T. Nightingale
Unit Operation in Hidden Dome Gas Field, Wyoming Wilson B. Emery
Unit Operation in California Joseph Jensen
Acknowledgments  
Discussion of Unitization  
Principals of Unit Operation Earl Oliver and J. B. Umpleby
Some Developments and Operating Economies of Unit Operation Sam Harlan
Suggested Procedure for Exploitation of an Oil-bearing Structure by Unit Operation (With Discussion) C. S. Corbett

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

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Production Engineering in 1929 - Summary (With Discussion) C. V. Millikan, Vice-chairman

Chapter II. Well Spacing

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Theory of Well Spacing (With Discussion) W. P. Haseman
Spacing of Wells in the Long Beach Field (With Discussion) Dwight C. Roberts and Stender Sweeney
Well Spacing in the Salt Creek Field (With Discussion) F. E. Wood
Equilateral Triangular System of Well Spacing C. S. Corbett

CHAPTER III. Gas-Oil Ratios

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Quantitative Effect of Gas-oil Ratios on Decline of Average Rock Pressure (With Discussion) Stewart Coleman, H. D. Wilde, Jr. and Thomas W. Moore
Condensation Effect in Determining Gas-oil Ratio (With Discussion) Alexander B. Morris

CHAPTER IV. Hydraulics of Flowing Wells

TITLE AUTHOR
Mathematical Development of the Theory of Flowing Oil Wells (With Discussion) J. Versluys
Flow Resistance of Gas-oil Mixtures through Vertical Pipes L. C. Uren, P. P. Gregory, R. A. Hancock and G. V. Feskov
Some Observations on Principles Involved in Flowing Oil Wells (With Discussion) S. F. Shaw
Classification of Flowing Wells with Respect to Velocity (With Discussion) F. P. Donohue
Mid-Continent Practices in Handling Flowing Wells (With Discussion) Reid W. Bond, D. L. Trax, C. D. Watson and Morgan Walker

CHAPTER V. Increasing the Extraction of Oil

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Repress ring in the Selover Zonc at Seal Beach and the Effect of Proration (With Discussion) Hamilton Bell and E. W. Webb
Repressuring in Depleted Oil Zones (With Discussion) C. M. Nickerson
Recent Developments in Flooding Practice in the Bradford and Richburg Oil Fields. (Abstract; see also Technical Publication No. 328 which includes discussion Charles R. Fettke
Modern Practice in Water-flooding of Oil Sands in the Bradford and Allegany Fields (With Discussion) Paul D. Torrey

CHAPTER VI. Valuation Methods

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Valuation of Flood Oil Properties (Abstract with Discussion; see also Technical Publication No. 323) Eugene A. Stephenson and I. G. Grettum
Mechanics of a California Production Curve (With Discussion) Stanley C. Herold
Rate of Production in Very Deep Oil and Gas Wells (For Summary, see Mining and Metallurgy, May 1930) Roswell H. Johnson

CHAPTER VII. Miscellaneous

TITLE AUTHOR
Methods of Tubing High-pressure Wells H. C. Otis
Electric Welding of Field Joints of Oil and Gas Pipe Lines (Abstract with Discussion; see also Technical Publication No. 251) Harold C Price
Superhard Metals for Tool Facing (Abstract with Discussion; see also Technical Publication No. 256) Harry J. Morgan
Deep Sand Development at Santa Fe Springs Joseph Jensen, McDowell Graves, W. D. Goold and M. L. Gwin
Choice of Geophysical Methods (See Mining and Metallurgy, June, 1930) Frank Rieber

RESEARCH

CHAPTER VIII. Oil Recovery

TITLE AUTHOR
Recent Studies on the Recovery of Oil from Sands (With Discussion) Joseph Chalmers
Law of Flow for the Passage of a gas-free Liquid through Spherical-grain Sand William Schriever
Variation of Pressure Gradient with Distance of Rectilinear Flow of Gas- saturated Oil and Unsaturated Oil through Unconsolidated Sands (With Discussion) W. F. Cloud
Behavior of Gas Bubbles in Capillary Spaces (With Discussion) Ionel I. Gardescu

CHAPTER IX. Cementing Wells

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Cementing Problem on the Gull Coast (With Discussion) H. D Wilde, Jr.

CHAPTER X. Drilling Muds

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Drilling Mud Practice in the Ventura Avenue Field (With Discussion) F. W. Hertal and E. W. Edson

CHAPTER XI. Corrosion

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Review of Oil-field Corrosion Problems for 1929 L. G. E. Bignell

ECONOMICS

TITLE AUTHOR
Petroleum Economic Review for 1929 - Summary Warren A. Sinsheimer, Vice-chairman

CHAPTER XII Petroleum Economies

TITLE AUTHOR
Economic Trend of the Petroleum Situation (With Discussion) Joseph E. Pogue
Controlled Gasoline Supply-the key to Oil Prosperity (With Discussion) H. J. Struth
Problems of Petroleum (With Discussion) J. Elmer Thomas
Influence of Control in the Oil Industry Upon Investment Position of Oil Securities (With Discussion) Barnabas Bryan

PRODUCTION

TITLE AUTHOR
Production Review for 1929 - Summary C. P. Watson, Vice-chairman

CHAPTER XIII. Domestic Production

TITLE AUTHOR
Petroleum Production and Development in Kansas, 1928 and 1929 Charles E. Straub and Anthony Folger
Petroleum Developments in Oklahoma during 1929 (With Discussion) H. B. Goodrich
Petroleum Development in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico in 1929 (With Discussion) R. E. Rettger
Development in East Texas and Along the Balcones Fault Zone, 1929 (With Discussion) F. E. Poulson
Petroleum Development in North Central and West Central Texas, 1929 J. W. Lewis
Petroleum Development in Southwest, Texas during 1929 O. G. Bell
Petroleum Development in Texas Panhandle in 1929 W. E. Hubbard
Petroleum Development in Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana during 1929 (With Discussion) R. H. Goodrich
Petroleum Development in Arkansas H. W. Bell
Petroleum Development in California during 1929 D. B. Myers
Petroleum Production and Development in the Rocky Mountain District in 1929; F. F. Hintze
Petroleum Development in 1929 in the North Rocky Mountain Region, Including Wyoming, Montana and Alberta Ralph Arnold and O. I. Deschon
Appalachian Petroleum and Natural Gas Fields during 1929 Charles R. Fettke
Petroleum Development in Indiana and Illinois in 1929 Alfred H. Bell and Paul F. Simpson
Petroleum Development in Mississippi during 1929 R. E. Grim

CHAPTER XIV. Foreign Production

TITLE AUTHOR
World Production during 1929 Valentin R. Garfias
Petroleum Development in Venezuela during 1929 (With Discussion) J. A. Holmes
Russian Oil Fields in 1928 and 1929 (With Discussion) B. B. Zavoico
Mexican Oil Fields during 1929 Valentin R. Garfias and C. O. Isakson
Petroleum Production in Dutch East Indies and Sarawak (Western Borneo); J. Th. Erb
Petroleum Production in Rumania in 1929 (Special Correspondence)  
Review of Colombian Operation in 1929 Michael O'Shaughnessy
Petroleum Production in Argentina Jose M. Sobral
Petroleum Production in Canada during 1929 T. G. Madgwick and W. Calder
Petroleum Production in Bolivia in 1929 G. P. Moore

REFINING

CHAPTER XV. Petroleum Refining

TITLE AUTHOR
Development in Refinery Technology during 1929 - Summary A. D. David, Vice-chairman

ENGINEERING EDUCATION

CHAPTER XVI. Petroleum Engineering Education

TITLE AUTHOR
Petroleum Engineering Education - Summary (With Discussion) H. C. George Vice-chairman

INDEX

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Index