Volume 170
Petroleum Development and Technology 1947
Petroleum Division Papers and Discussions Presented before the Division at Meetings held at Chicago, February 25-28, 1946; Galveston, October 3-5, 1946; Los Angeles, October 24-25, 1946; and New York, March 19-22, 1947
Title Page
Foreword by – Howard C. Pyle, Chairman
A.I.M.E. Officers and Directors
Contents
Petroleum Division Officers and Committees
The Anthony F. Lucas Fund and Medal
Photograph of William Noble Lacey, Medalist

PAPERS:

Chapter I. – Research

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A New Method for Measurement of Oil Saturation in Cores (TP 2124, Petr. Tech., Jan. 1947, with discussion) R. L. Boyer, F. Morgan and M. Muskat
Phase Relations of Hydrocarbon-water Systems (TP 2123, Petr. Tech., Jan. 1947, with discussion) John J. McKetta, Jr., and Donald L. Katz
Geothermal Gradients in Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast Oil Fields (TP 2114, Petr. Tech., Nov. 1946, with discussion) E. A. Nichols
Some Experiments on the Mobility of Interstitial Waters (TP 2054, Petr. Tech., July 1946, with discussion) R. G. Russell, F. Morgan and M. Muskat
Extending the Application of Electric Analogy in Oil-reservoir Studies (TP 2125, Petr. Tech., Jan. 1947, with discussion) Henry Schaefer
Estimating Interstitial Water by the Capillary Pressure Method (TP 2126, Petr. Tech., Jan. 1947, with discussion) O. F. Thornton and D. L. Marshall

Chapter II. – Reservoir Engineering

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The Performance of Bottom Water-drive Reservoirs (TP 2060, Petr. Tech., Sept. 1946, with discussion) M. Muskat
Evaluation of Pressure Maintenance by Internal Gas Injection in Volumetrically Controlled Reservoirs (TP 2098, Petr. Tech., Nov. 1946, with discussion) E. C. Patton, Jr.
Volumetric Behavior of Oil and Gas from Several San Joaquin Valley Fields (TP 2153, Petr. Tech., March 1947, with discussion) B. H. Sage and R. H. Olds

Chapter III. – Production Engineering

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Plastic Used to Consolidate Incompetent Formations (TP 2148, Petr. Tech., March 1947) P. H. Cardwell
Possibilities and Problems of Drilling Beyond the Continental Shelves (TP 2095, Petr. Tech., Nov. 1946) H. E. Gross
Advantages of Brines in Secondary Recovery of Petroleum by Water-flooding (TP 2127, Petr. Tech., March 1947, with discussion) Richard V. Hughes and Rudolf J. Pfister
Interpretation of Well Test Data in Gas-condensate Fields (TP 2053, Petr. Tech., July 1946) J. O. Lewis
A Study of Some Factors Affecting Gun Perforating (TP 2115, Petr. Tech., Jan. 1947, with discussion S. C. Oliphant and R. Floyd Farris
Use of Plastics in Consolidating Loose Sands in Wells (TP 2147, Petr. Tech., March 1947, with discussion); R. H. Smith and A. C. Polk, Jr.
A New Well-completion Technique (TP 2094, Petr. Tech., Sept. 1946) T. S. West

Chapter IV. – Petroleum Economics

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Related Trends in Future Domestic and Foreign Petroleum Operations (TP 2048, Petr. Tech., July 1946) H. W. Page

Chapter V. – Refining

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Review of Refinery Engineering for 1946 Walter Miller

Index

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Index  

Other Papers Presented at A.I.M.E. Meetings

TITLE AUTHOR
Productivity, Prices, and a Sound Wage Level Mining and Metallurgy (Sept. 1946, 463) J. D. Gill and B. A. Stainton