The present book by Dr. Walter Fertl represents the first modern collection and comprehensive review of laboratory studies, combined with extensive field observations, dealing with the vast sv.bject area related to the origin, detection, and quantitative evaluation of abnormal formation pres- sures and their profound technical and managerial decision-making impact on exploration, drilling, production, and reservoir engineering concepts. Location, detection, and magnitude of abnormal formation pressures is critical to the oil industry’s quest to probe new and remote areas and to test the potential of ever-deeper targets in today’s enhanced search for oil and gas resources.
The author, who ranks among the world’s leading experts in this subject field, has synthesized both published and unpublished data, and at the same time has incorporated a wealth of his own personal experiences, which are based on both worldwide field observations and laboratory data.
The manuscript is well organized and documented and provides an excel- lent, in-depth treatment of obvious value to both the newcomer and the expert. As such, the volume should serve as a valuable text and source book for both industrial and academic circles, including geologists, engineers, teachers, and students alike. It also provides a basis for stimulation of thought and it points out numerous opportunities for future research in a variety of fields. The information presented in this splendid text gives an excellent, clear, and up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing subject matter, which has been previously unorganized and scattered throughout the literature in earth sciences and/or petroleum engineering journals.
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