References useful commercial information from them are provided,
as well as field examples. The book draws together many Taylor, S.E., 1999. Fuel 77, 821 – 828. different publications from the past decade, forming a Rogel, E., 1997. Energy Fuels 11, 920 – 925. valuable collection to which Professor Luthi has added is Yarranton, H.W., Masliyah, J.H., 1997. AIChE J. 42, 3533 – 3543. Rassamdana, H., Sahimi, M., 1996. AIChE J. 42, 3318 – 3332. own experience and commentary. The newest techniques for imaging the character of the borehole wall in extended-reach wells are discussed, S.E. Taylor including both electrical and density images while Senior Colloid Scientist, Fuels Technology Unit, drilling. Readers will be familiar with the importance B.P. Oil Research and Engineering Centre, of the rapid development and worldwide application of Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, high angle wells. The many structural, correlation, Middlesex TW16 7LN, UK depositional and cross-bedding evaluations are excel- lent and cover the most fundamental and the advanced issues. Other highlights include, the comparisons on doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2003.09.001 real core with real electrical-based images, the several ‘borehole’ wrapped presentations of log images, such as fractures, that are easier to understand than the flat usual Geological well logs—their use in reservoir images, and the ‘real’ photographs of a faulted dolo- modelling mitic reservoir from a downhole video camera. Springer Verlag; ISBN 3-540-67840-9; Stefan M. Some modest additions would have been helpful. Luthi, 2001, 373 pp. ($89.95, o89.95) A larger proportion of material should have been from suppliers other than Schlumberger. Two geological multi-well cross sections were too small. The widely used clay-related fundamental electrical models The author has been deeply involved at the heart of should have been mentioned alongside the more the application of well logs to geological problems for academic solution. All NMR interpretations should two decades. He has gained hands-on experience and include the effect of borehole caving, since this leads developed new methods with a leading supplier. He is to a large apparent ‘shale’ content derived from the presently in academia and is Professor of Production ‘mud’. In the elemental spectroscopy example, gyp- Geology in the Applied Earth Sciences Department at sum was not differentiated from anhydrite by using the Delft University of Technology in The Nether- the available standard log data. These suggestions are lands, and is highly qualified to write on the subjects minor in comparison with the large volume of excel- covered: lent material provided. The book will be very useful for practising geo- (1) Brief history and the petrophysical approach. scientists and graduate students to learn about, or (2) Geological measurements including dipmeter, update themselves on, the recent geological logging electrical, acoustic, density and optical borehole tools, their interpretation techniques and reservoir imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, applications. The book is currently being used as the nuclear spectroscopy logging, paleomagnetic resource for an AAPG short course. logging and core sampling. (3) Applications and case studies including structural modelling, bedding and reservoir zonation, frac- Richard Woodhouse tured reservoirs, well correlation and geological ‘Fariswood’, Sheerwater Avenue, Woodham, drilling and geosteering. Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 3DR, UK E-mail address: woodhouser@aol.com Recently invented borehole measurements relevant to geologists are the core of this book. Short but accurate descriptions of the tools and the techniques for extracting doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2003.09.003