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FURTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES 1 A. GENE COLLINS GEOCHEMISTRY OF OILFIELD WATERS 2 W.H. FERTL ABNORMAL FORMATION PRESSURES 3 A.P. SZILAS PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT OF OIL AND GAS 4 C.E.B. CONYBEARE GEOMORPHOLOGY OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN SANDSTONE BODIES 5 T.F. YEN and G.V. CHILINGARIAN (Editors) OIL SHALE 6 D.W. PEACEMAN FUNDAMENTALS OF NUMERICAL RESERVOIR SIMULATION 7 G.V. CHILINGARIAN and T.F. YEN (Editors) BITUMENS, ASPHALTS AND TAR SANDS 8 L.P. DAKE FUNDAMENTALS OF RESERVOIR ENGINEERING 9 K. MAGARA COMPACTION AND FLUID MIGRATION 10 M.T. SILVIA and E.A. ROBINSON DECONVOLUTION OF GEOPHYSICAL TIME SERIES IN THE EXPLORATION FOR OIL AND NATURAL GAS
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LP. DAKE Senior Lecturer in Reservoir Engineering, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij B. V., The Hague, The Netherlands
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