The author, head of well completion and servicing training at ENSPM Formation Industrie and professor at IFP school, offers a technical guide to well completion, from drilling in the pay zone to production start-up. Other chapters address the equipment of naturally flowing wells and the main methods for artificial lift, well servicing, and workover. Of likely use to geologists; geophysicists; reservoir, drilling, or production facility engineers; and oil company administrators. Translated from La Production Fond by D. Perrin, published in 1995 by +ditions Technip, Paris and Institut Francais du PTtrol, Rueil-Malmaison. Distributed by Enfield Publishing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)