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A wide variety of petroleum and energy-related materials is available through the Hamon Center for check-out to Dallas Public Library cardholders, including a comprehensive collection of introductory and nontechnical sources covering various petroleum industry sectors. Other sources explore industry disciplines in greater depth, focus on specific technical problems or techniques, or discuss industry history or current issues affecting the industry. This Webpage will be used to feature representative new titles as they are added to the collection.

Introductory/Nontechnical Sources

The Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center houses several sources of nontechnical or beginning-level information about oil and gas topics. Examples of titles providing introductory treatment include:

• Hints on Negotiating an Oil and Gas Lease
  333.823 F198H 1997
• The Petroleum Industry: a Nontechnical Guide
  665.5 C743P 1999
• Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production: a Nontechnical Guide
  622.33819 L493D 2003
• Drilling for Oil & Gas: a Nontechnical Guide
  622.3381 D491D 1999
• Reservoir Seismology: Geophysics in Nontechnical Language
  622.1592 G123R 1994
• Well Logging in Nontechnical Language
  622.18282 J66W 2002
665.5 G778P 1995
• Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language
  665.53 L493P 2000
• Petrochemicals in Nontechnical Language
  661.804 B951P 1990
• Natural Gas in Nontechnical Language
  665.7 N285 1999
• Where’s the Shortage: a Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Economics
  338.27282 T595W 1993
• Oil Company Financial Analysis in Nontechnical Language
  622.3382 J72O 1992
• Fundamentals of Petroleum Trading
  332.6328 R278F 1991
• Distributed Generation: a Nontechnical Guide
  621.31 C444S 2001
• Electric Power Industry in Nontechnical Language
  333.7932 W277E 1998
• Oil & Gas Taxation in Nontechnical Language
  336.27862 B959O 1993
• Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell
  343.73077 L9130 2003

Other Circulating Titles

Books in the Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center covering a wide range of energy- related subjects are available to browse or check out. The following is a short list of circulating books reflecting the variety of topics covered by the collection:

• The Economics of Energy Security
  338.27282 B676E 1996
• Energy Futures: Trading Opportunities
  332.64422 E56 2000
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking Handbook: Design, Operation, and Troubleshooting of FCC Facilities
  665.533 S125F 2000
• Fuel Cell Systems Explained
  621.31242 L324F 2000
• Guide to Purchasing Electricity and Gas
  333.7932 C973G 1999
• History of Petroleum Engineering; a Publication of the American Petroleum Institute
  622.3382 A512H
• Petroleum Geology of the North Sea: Basic Concepts and Recent Advances
  553.28209 P497 1998
• Petroleum Geoscience
  553.28 G567P 2004
• Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual
  622.3381 D491P 1998
• Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation
  622.3382 F199P 2001
• The Prize [videorecording] : the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
  338.27282 P961 1992
• Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists
  519.5 S797 2000
• Strategies for Optimizing Petroleum Exploration
  622.1828 K72S 1999

Featured New Titles

Among recent additions to the Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center are the following titles:

• Alternative Energy Demystified
  333.794 G446A 2007
• Alternative Energy Resources: the Quest for Sustainable Energy
  621.042 K94A 2006
• Catalysis in Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries
  660.2995 C357 2005
• Energy Alternatives
  333.79 E56 2006
• Energy Companies and Market Reform: How Deregulation Went Wrong
  333.79 L222E 2006
• Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing
  665.73 K46F 2006
• Geophysics in the Affairs of Mankind: a Personalized History of Exploration Geophysics
  622.15 L425G 2001
• Insights and Methods for 4D Reservoir Monitoring and Characterization
  622.1828 D614I 2005
• Introduction to Energy Analysis
  333.7 B652I 2007
• Introduction to Petroleum Seismology
  622.1828 I26I 2005
• LNG : a Level-headed Look at the Liquefied Natural Gas Controversy
  333.8233 T499L 2007
• Near-Surface Geophysics
  550 N354 2005
• New Techniques in Sediment Core Analysis
  551.4686 N532 2006
• Nuclear Energy Now: Why the Time Has Come for the World's Most Misunderstood Energy Source
  333.7924 H538N 2007
• The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America
  338.76655 P949O 2007
• Oil
  338.27282 O39 2006
• Oil and the Future of Energy: Climate Repair, Hydrogen, Nuclear Fuel, Renewable and Green Sources, Energy Efficiency
  333.79 O39 2007
• Petroleum Accounting: Principles, Procedures, & Issues
  657.862 J54P 2000
• Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics
  665.538 G244P 2007
• Russian Oil Supply: Performance and Prospects
  338.2728 G729R 2005
• Sustainable Fossil Fuels: the Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy
  333.82 J12S 2005
• The Texan and Dutch Gas: Kicking Off the European Energy Revolution
  338.27285 S849T 2006
• United States Foreign Oil Policy Since World War I: for Profit and Security
  338.27282 R189U 2005
• Wildcatters: Texas Independent Oilmen
  338.27282 O46W 2007

Please use the Dallas Public Library’s Web Catalog to identify additional petroleum and energy-related circulating materials. Hamon Oil and Gas Resource Center sources display in the catalog entry with a location of CENTRAL-CBT-5TH-OIL/GAS.