A pragmatic roadmap integrating fossil fuels and renewables toward net zero

Rising energy demand, climate pressure, and unequal development require frameworks that connect environmental targets with operational energy systems. Energy Sustainability in Practice: Integrating Oil, Gas, and Clean Energy for a Net Zero World delivers a technology-driven roadmap showing how fossil fuels, renewables, hydrogen, nuclear, and energy storage can work synergistically to reach net-zero emissions without sacrificing energy security or economic growth.

The book quantitatively links energy access, affordability, and reliability to Human Development Index improvement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It details concrete decarbonization solutions including methane reduction, carbon capture utilization and storage, digital optimization, and hydrogen integration. Each pathway is grounded in real-world engineering and operational data rather than ideological assumptions about energy transition.

Readers will also find:

• Evidence-based frameworks connecting environmental goals with energy security, economic growth, and social development in emerging economies
• Detailed analysis of how cleaner fossil-fuel technologies integrate with renewables and low-carbon solutions to minimize environmental impact
• Quantitative assessments linking energy affordability and reliability to measurable improvements in quality of life and human development
• Concrete pathways for methane reduction, CCUS deployment, and digital optimization applicable across upstream and downstream operations
• Coverage of hydrogen, nuclear, and energy storage technologies as complementary elements within an integrated net-zero energy system

Designed for petroleum engineers, chemical engineers, industrial scientists, energy industry executives, and policymakers, this book provides the balanced, evidence-based analysis needed to make informed decisions about energy transition strategies. Advanced students and researchers studying sustainable energy systems will find it equally relevant to their work.

Sami Alnuaim, PhD, is Adjunct Professor at the College of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. He brings over 30 years of experience at Saudi Aramco in reservoir engineering, production, R&D, and upstream IT operations. He served as the 2019 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, has published over 300 articles, holds patents, and completed executive programs at Wharton and Penn State. He earned his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.