Expro economics explained

PETROLEUM ENGINEERS learn their professional skills at university, but soon find when they join an oil company that they also need to know something about costs, economics, finance and accounts. The best sources for this type of information are the grey heads of seasoned colleagues—but such people are usually too busy to give tutorials. Oil and gas exploration and production—reserves, costs, contracts is an admirable attempt to short-cut the learning process for professionals new to the industry and it also contains much that the more experienced will value. Authors—all from the Institut Français du Pétrole and Total—range over the economic history of the business, exploration and production