This handbook is has been compiled to give readers with an interested in the oil and gas production industry an overview of the main processes and equipment.When I started to search for a suitable introduction to be used for new engineers,I discovered that much of this equipment is described in standards,equipment manuals
and project documentation.But little material was found to quickly give the reader an overview of the entire upstream area,while still preserving enough detail to let the engineer get an appreciation of the main characteristics and design issues and the description will be somewhat biased toward
the offshore installations.