ELEMENTS OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, 4TH EDITION

The book needed a writing editor and a technical editor. Some sentences are hard to read. A sentence that read fine in the third edition is tough to read because the same words have been moved around. It has so many inconsistencies and errors that I stopped marking them. Too many figures are hard to read. Few of the references are current. Average age of refences by chapter: 1: 1960; 2: 1972; 3: 1983; 4: 1976; 5: 1971; 6: 1977; 7: 1972; 8: 1974; 9: 1987; 10: 2013; 11: 2017; and 12: 1986. This is for a book with a publication date of 2023. It's as if the authors took the third edition and added a few recent developments. My personal peeve is with their comments about fractured reservoirs on page 320 since I live in Ventura, California. They state that Monterey reservoirs have low recovery rates. Many do; however, a well in the Santa Barbara Channel produced more than 30 million barrels in its first 16 years of production, and several offshore California wells produced more than 10 million barrels.