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Description: This is the first book in the petroleum sector to shed light on the real obstacles to sustainable development. Supplying a step by step guideline for efficient management skills, in both upstream and downstream divisions, this manual clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is dimished. Going beyond drilling and production, the entire petroleum operations cycle is covered in this book starting with exploration all the way through to refining and gas processing. These world-renowned authors present a new management method to all hydrocarbon operations that is environmentally acceptable, economically profitable and socially responsible. Presenting these new applicable concepts, methods and guidelines helps petroleum engineers and manger reach true sustainability in their technology, development and opeerations. Readers will learn how to: Prove that the current exploration practices can be rendered environmentally acceptable Consider practical drilling alternatives Achieve zero-waste oil production as well as production operations that use a no-chemicals approach Propose converting waste liabilities into assets as a general principle of waste management Examine transportation, refining and processing subjects as well as other alternatives to various toxic chemicals Solve issues surrounding offshore rigs with a number of elaborated pro-nature techniques