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The Oilfield Bookstore
Looking for oil and gas industry books? Petroleum engineering textbooks? Here you'll find everything from rare oilfield technical manuals to well logging books, driller's reference books, books on pipeline and offshore engineering, oil production, petroleum engineering books, oilfield history, and even some oil patch humor. There are even a couple of kid's oilfield books and some oilfield music.
A Primer of Oilwell Drilling: A Basic Text of Oil and Gas Drilling Is Now In Stock! The Non Technical Guide series, including Oil and Gas Production in Non Technical Language, are a great resource, even for professionals. . If you are looking for oil and gas drilling history books you will find "History of Oil Well Drilling" an well written book that is worth the money. Paul Carter's "Don't tell Mom I Work On The Rigs..." is as funny to read as the full title of the book suggests. It is a good gift for that oilfield person in your life, even if they have heard their share of tall tales before, they will be amused by the ones in his book. If there are any oilfield books you don't see, check back since I update the listings of oilfield books daily.
All Time Top
Sellers:
Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration
and Production
Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language
A Primer of Oilwell Drilling: A Basic Text of Oil and Gas Drilling
Drilling
Technology in Nontechnical Language
For Technical Oilfield Books and Petroleum Engineering Textbooks click "Technical Books" On the Left Side Of The Page
I hope you enjoy this selection of oilfield books that I have personally picked from the big A's inventory. I regularly update it and try to delete any ones that are out of stock but occasionally an oil and gas industry book may be sold out and the link still exists here. Often if you check the used section you will find good quality copies for the fraction of the cost of the book new. This is especially true with the technical books that may have been used one semester by an petroleum engineering student and then put up for sale. I want you to save money and keep coming back to this site, not just sell you oilfield books at any price, so be sure and check out the used ones for sale as well. A Primer of Oilwell Drilling is extremely hard to find new but used copies are always coming up here. It is an excellent book for those new to the industry and a good gift to someone going to the oilfield for the first time.
Oilfield Books for Oil and Gas Professionals and Laymen
Even if you are not in the oil and gas business you will find some good reading here. Never before in the history of man has one product had such a massive impact on our lives. As oil and gas run out, (which many who subscribe to the Peak Oil theory believe is happening), the effects are being felt in the form of regional wars, famine, recession and global hardship.
My personal view of the situation is that there is an incredible amount of oil still remaining on the planet but that getting to it is now becoming so expensive that much of it will never be recovered. The "cheap" oil of Saudi Arabia is running out. Read Matt Simmon's "Twilight in The Desert", an exhaustively researched book by an industry expert and adviser to presidents. He describes the efforts of the Saudi Royal Family to hide the truth about the Saudi oilfield's great decline as well as other fields around the world that are in serious trouble, such as Mexico's Cantarell which is depleting at an alarming rate. You will find a good section of books in the oilfield bookstore dedicated to Hubberts Peak or "Peak Oil".
Please check back with the Oilfield Bookstore for new additions. I will soon be expanding the book sections with one specifically for drilling technology books.
