Introduction: The importance of fossil fuels for industrial societies
Part I Nature and variety of fossil fuels, physico-chemical principles of their formation and that of their deposits in the earth's crust Chapitre 1 What are the fossil fuels, and what are they made of? 1.1 The oils 1.2 The natural gases 1.3 The coals 1.4 The bituminous shales (oil shales)
Chapitre 2 How do fossil fuels form? 2.1 Their origin: kerogens, debris of organisms accumulated in certain sediments 2.2 Their sites of formation: sedimentary basins, depressions of the earth's crust invaded by the waters 2.3 The key to their formation: the thermal history of kerogen containing sediments
Chapitre 3 How are their deposits formed? 3.1 Fluid fuels: oils and gases 3.2 Solid fuels: coals and bituminous (oil) shale
Chapitre 4 An overview of fossil fuels
Part II Future prospects, climate and health risks Chapitre 1 Some nomenclature. 1.1 Natural conventional and unconventional oil and gas, and synthetic oil and gas (synfuels and syngases) 1.2 Categories of coals and their use
Chapitre 2 Some Quantification 2.1 To what depths are deposits of fossil fuels found? 2.2 The calorific value of fuels, the source of their economic interest
Chapitre 3 Future prospects of fossil fuels? 3.1 A very difficult problem: the evaluation of fossil fuel reserves 3.2 What is the future of global fossil fuel production?
Chapitre 4 A little Economics: fossil fuel prices 4.1 Oil prices 4.2 Gas prices 4.3 Coal prices. 4.4 Trends in market shares of primary energies
Chapitre 5 Fossil fuels and climate
Chapitre 6 Fossil fuels and public health
Conclusion Appendix 1: Chemical composition of oils Appendix 2: Dynamics and Resilience of the Production of Shale Oil and Gas