Natural Gas & Electric Power in Nontechnical Language by Ann Chambers Publisher: Pennwell Pub; (April 1999) ISBN: 0878147616 Check price @ amazon.com , amazon.ca , amazon.co.uk

Book Description

Ann Chambers gives you a history of these two converging industries and an overview of the factors forcing them together—political, regulatory, technical, and economic. She covers other fuels competing for market share in the electric industry, the merchant power uprising, distributed generation, and strategies for creating value in the new Btu stream.

Book Info

Examines exploration and drilling techniques, production procedures, treating, pipelines, storage, transportation, marketing, and trading options. Gives a brief industry history of electric power and explains how plants are competing for and getting involved in the natural gas industry. DLC: Gas as fuel--Popular works.

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Customer Reviews

Good Introduction to Natural Gas and Power Generation, June 30, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Houston, Texas
Chambers covers a lot of material in enough detail to promote an understanding of the broad issues involved in natural gas and its relation to an increasingly deregulated electric power market -- but not in so much detail that a reader new to the subject will be lost and confused. Certain topics are treated a bit too roughly, a good example being the discussion of deregulation, which skims the surface of the government's complicity in impeding the NG industry's progress and doesn't frame the issues as clearly as it could. The book's editing is not the best; there are spelling and grammar errors, and some of the graphics are unclear. Chambers' writing, however, is generally concise and lucid, and her topics are on target. The glossary is helpful. Altogether a book that does what it seems intended to do. Now, if Pennwell could just sharpen the editing and bring the price down a bit. . .