Published Textbooks
Building Corporate IQ – Moving the Energy Business from Smart to Genius – Executive Guide to Preventing Costly Crises
A company’s overall effectiveness in creating primary business value from the available knowledge resources (internally and externally) can be expressed as a corporate IQ score in the framework defined here, using a new questionnaire comprising 140 questions. This questionnaire has now been successfully applied to a number of energy companies: five oil operators, one service company, and one natural-gas transmission-service operator. An interesting pattern emerges that confirms a higher corporate IQ is essential to operate effectively in a highly competitive energy market. The workflow proposed here provides useful insight on how organizations can improve their organizational intelligence. Independents, International Oil Companies (IOCs) and National Oil Companies (NOCs) should strive to enhance their corporate IQ. This can be achieved through periodic assessments and interventions as outlined in this study. Companies that excel at organizational learning are better prepared to outperform their competitors.
SPE-Style Citation: Weijermars, R. (2011). Building corporate IQ moving the energy business from smart to genius: Executive guide to preventing costly crises. London: Springer.
Principles of Rock Mechanics – Lectures in Geoscience
Principles of Rock Mechanics is a textbook to a one-semester course for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. There are 13 chapters, a math review section, and the obligatory introduction and final overview chapters. Each chapter is designed to be covered in two 50-minute lectures and one laboratory session. The book serves as a practical introduction to the key physical concepts and processes of geomechanics: physical quantities in rock mechanics, force and pressure, stress, elasticity, brittle failure, and ductile creep, taking the students to midterm. An unusual and welcome feature appears at the midsemester point—a math review. This review of notation and associated concepts provides an indication of the rigor to follow: differentiation of vectors and scalars, differential equations, tensors, matrices and determinants, and complex variables. The second half of the book applies continuum mechanics to quantify rock deformation using stress tensors, strain tensors, deformation tensors, particle motion and stream functions, deformation of layers, and practical strain analysis. Click the image to read it!
SPE-Style Citation: Weijermars, R. (1997). Principles of Rock Mechanics. Amsterdam: Alboran Science Publishing.
Structural Geology and Map Interpretation – Lectures in Geoscience
Geological maps lay flat the three-dimensional architecture of a region’s rock record. The illustrations and maps provide the framework for 17 relatively short, well-organized chapters and over 100 exercises. After brief introductions to structural geology and topographic maps, separate chapters include coverage of strike, dip, thickness calculations, map notation, cross sections, structure contours, form lines, three point problems, fold and fault nomenclature, maps of folds, faults, faulted folds and unconformities, and isopach maps. The material here is specifically designed for a one-semester undergraduate course. This book should find a wide audience with students wishing to hone their map skills and with teachers looking for a simple yet complete textbook on geological map interpretation. Click the image to read it!
SPE-Style Citation: Weijermars, R. (1997). Structural Geology and Map Interpretation. Amsterdam: Alboran Science Publishing.