📚 Petroleum

The buried carbon economy: formation, refining, and the geopolitics that followed the pipeline.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject petroleum in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Prize	Daniel Yergin	1991	29
	I.P. standards for petroleum and its products	Institute of Petroleum.	1960	20
	Strategic petroleum reserve	Robert Bamberger	1984	17
	Petroleum refining	James H. Gary	1975	13
	Troubleshooting process plant control	Norman P. Lieberman	2008	13
	Basin Analysis	Philip A. Allen	2005	12
	Petroleum	Redwood, Boverton Sir	1887	9
	Aramco handbook	Saudi Aramco	1960	9
	IP	IP	1972	9
	Petroleum measurement tables	American Society for Testing and Materials	1952	8
	Oil	John Farndon	2007	8
	Petroleum Geoscience	Jon Gluyas	2008	8
	Webster's New international dictionary of the English language	Noah Webster	1909	7
	Elements of Petroleum Geology	Richard C. Selley	1997	7
	Petrophysics	Steve Cannon	2015	7
	Oil, from prospect to pipeline	Robert R. Wheeler	1958	6
	Coiled Tubing and Other Stimulation Techniques	Mohammed Ismail Iqbal	2019	6
	Petroleum refinery engineering	Wilbur Lundine Nelson	1936	5
	Geology of petroleum	Alan Aird Moncrieff	1954	5
	The chemistry and technology of petroleum	J. G. Speight	1980	5
	The geological interpretation of well logs	M. H. Rider	1986	5
	Applied subsurface geological mapping	Daniel J. Tearpock	1991	5
	Nontechnical guide to petroleum geology, exploration, drilling, and production	Norman J. Hyne	1995	5
	Petroleum refining in nontechnical language	William L. Leffler	2000	5
	Refinery Engineering	Ai-Fu Chang	2012	5
	The energy world is flat	Daniel Lacalle	2015	5
	Decision analysis for petroleum exploration	Paul D. Newendorp	1976	4
	How Did We Find Out About Oil	Isaac Asimov	1980	4
	Basic Petroleum Geology	Peter K. Link	1982	4
	Oil	Vaclav Smil	2008	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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