Natural Gas Engineering Handbook: Practical Field Guide to Production, Processing, Pipelines, LNG & Worked Calculations (Updated Practical Handbooks) - Softcover

Newman, Sienna

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798175907569

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What if the fastest way to solve a natural-gas engineering problem was to stop searching through disconnected references and start with one practical, calculations-first workflow…

Is it difficult to find trustworthy equations quickly during a live operating problem?

Does liquid loading, compression, dehydration, or pipeline performance require answers that can be checked—not just textbook theory?

Does the industry need a practical reference that connects established fundamentals with hydrogen blending and digital engineering?

Written by Sienna Newman, Natural Gas Engineering Handbook follows a system-level approach spanning gas properties, production, processing, pipelines, LNG, gas quality, safety, hydrogen blending, digital surveillance, and integrated troubleshooting. Its calculation philosophy emphasizes defining the problem, validating inputs, maintaining unit discipline, calculating transparently, checking physical reasonableness, testing sensitivity, and documenting results.

Inside readers will learn to:

• Master gas properties — composition, density, PVT, compressibility.
• Apply field calculations — with assumptions, units, and checks.
• Diagnose gas wells — using inflow, outflow, and nodal analysis.
• Recognize liquid loading — before production impairment escalates.
• Optimize production — around real system constraints.
• Understand gathering — separation, liquids, and inlet conditions.
• Evaluate compression — performance, staging, and operating limits.
• Improve dehydration — water control and hydrate prevention.
• Understand sweetening — contaminants and gas specifications.
• Analyze pipelines — hydraulics, pigging, liquids, and measurement.
• Work with LNG systems — liquefaction through regasification.
• Evaluate gas quality — heating value, Wobbe index, and custody transfer.
• Explore hydrogen blending — properties, compatibility, and screening.
• Use digital engineering — SCADA, Python, models, and surveillance.
• Integrate troubleshooting — economics, optimization, and field case studies.

Rather than demanding that readers memorize lengthy derivations, the handbook emphasizes practical explanations, worked calculations, diagnostic workflows, and physical reasonableness checks. It is designed as a working reference—not a replacement for company procedures, engineering codes, or site-specific requirements.

If you want to strengthen production, processing, pipeline, and LNG troubleshooting skills, then use its worked examples and diagnostic workflows as a practical reference.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798175907569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368