7 of the Best Audiobooks in Oil Industry
Often everyone who works in the oil fields suffers because the field is far from his place of residence, so the trip to go to work or return home becomes boring. The best way to enjoy the trip is audiobooks. Make sure your next road trip is all that you hoped for by tipping the scales in your favor with an entertaining audiobook! Happy listening!
Finding Oil
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Oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations. Accordingly, no one questions the idea that the quest for oil is a quest for power. The question we should ask, Finding Oil suggests, is what kind of power prospectors have wanted. This book revises oil’s early history by exploring the incredibly varied stories of the men who pitted themselves against nature to unleash the power of oil.
Brian Frehner shows how, despite the towering presence of a figure like John D. Rockefeller as a quintessential “oil man”, prospectors were a diverse lot who saw themselves, their interests, and their relationships with nature in profoundly different ways. He traces their various pursuits of power from 1859 to 1920 as a struggle for cultural, intellectual, and professional authority, over both nature and their peers. Here we see how some saw power as the work they did exploring and drilling into landscapes, while others saw it in the intellectual work of explaining how and where oil accumulated. Charting the intersection of human and natural history, their story traces the ever-evolving relationship between science and industry and reveals the unsuspected role geology played in shaping our understanding of the history of oil.
“The description above is the same as published on Amazon website (©2011 Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks)”
Oilfield Survival Guide, Volume One
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Save money, time, and lives with the real-world oil and gas experience of others. Learning the hard way in the oilfield can cost you millions, sometimes billions of dollars in addition to injury and loss of life.
Cut through the noise to focus on the most critical aspects of working in the oil and gas business. Based on more than 1,000 oil and gas situations involving drilling, cementing, fracking, wireline, coil tubing, snubbing, running tools, welding, production, workover, logging, trucking, geology, land, engineering, resource development, executive management, and much, much more.
Expand your value-creation opportunities by learning from the real-world experience of others. Whether you work in the office or in the field, work as a company man, engineer, driller, tool pusher, roughneck, geologist, landman, truck driver, frac hand, treater, cementer, lawyer, flowback hand, welder, geophysicist, snubber, pumper, equipment operator, derrick man, mechanic, petrophysicist, roustabout, manager, director, VP, or executive, consider adding Oilfield Survival Guide to your toolbox of knowledge. In other words, if you work hard for your money in the oil business, this audiobook is for you.
The oil and gas industry is one of the most capital-intensive businesses today. As a result, mistakes/situations can be expensive, in addition to injury and loss of life. To prevent undesirable situations, Oilfield Survival Guide was created, based on more than 1,000 oil and gas situations.
The ultimate guide for all oil and gas situations:
- Tactics
- Procedures
- Fatalities
- Short stories
- Train wrecks
- Disaster avoidance
- Court cases
- Life-savings skills
- Checklists
- Troubleshooting
- Problem job prevention
“The description above is the same as published on Amazon website (©2017 Matthew J. Hatami (P)2018 Matthew J. Hatami)”
The Eskimo and the Oil Man
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The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region’s traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the polar regions may become the next Panama Canal, the next Arabian Peninsula-places on earth that remain relatively unknown in one century and become pivotal in the next. Now Shell oil plans to sink exploratory wells in the pristine waters off the North Slope of Alaska-a site that the company believes contains three times as much oil as the Gulf of Mexico.
The Eskimo and the Oil Man tells this story through the eyes of two men, one an Iñupiat Eskimo leader on Alaska’s North Slope, the other the head of Shell Oil’s Alaska venture. Their saga is set against the background of an undersea land rush in the Arctic, with Russian bombers appearing off Alaska’s coast, and rapid changes in ice that put millions of sea mammals at risk. The men’s decisions will affect the daily lives of all Americans, in their cities and towns and also in their pocketbooks. The story begins as a fight and ends with a surprise.
In the spirit of Thomas L. Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, best-selling author Bob Reiss traveled in America’s High North over three years and spent time with scientists, diplomats, military planners, Eskimo whale hunters and officials at the highest levels of the government. He traveled to remote villages and sailed on a US icebreaker. The Eskimo and the Oil Man reflects the issues dividing every American community wrestling with the balance between energy use and environmental protection, our love of cheap gas and the romance of pristine wilderness.
“The description above is the same as published on Amazon website (©2012 Bob Reiss (P)2012 Gildan Media, LLC)”
The Big Rich
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics.
While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend of the swaggering Texas oilman with island hideaways and sprawling ranches.
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The Oil Wars Myth
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Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource’s exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything to obtain it. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Oil Wars Myth reveals that countries do not launch major conflicts to acquire petroleum resources. Emily Meierding argues that the costs of foreign invasion, territorial occupation, international retaliation, and damage to oil company relations deter even the most powerful countries from initiating “classic oil wars”. Examining a century of interstate violence, she demonstrates that, at most, countries have engaged in mild sparring to advance their petroleum ambitions.
The Oil Wars Myth elaborates on these findings by reassessing the presumed oil motives for many of the 20th century’s most prominent international conflicts: World War II, the two American Gulf wars, the Iran-Iraq War, the Falklands Malvinas War, and the Chaco War. These case studies show that countries have consistently refrained from fighting for oil. Meierding also explains why oil war assumptions are so common, despite the lack of supporting evidence. Since classic oil wars exist at the intersection of need and greed — two popular explanations for resource grabs — they are unusually easy to believe in.
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Investing in Oil and Gas
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Part I — Oil and Gas Operations — covers oil and gas operations in the field. It includes historical and structural geology, seismic surveying, drilling a well, well logging, completions, production methods, reservoir drive mechanisms, selling oil and natural gas, and workovers.
Part II — Oil and Gas Business — delves deeply into the business side of oil and gas investments. The book covers oil and gas leases clause-by-clause, oil and gas law, the players in an oil and gas deal, deal structures, economic evaluation of investment opportunities, and federal taxation.
Part III — 150 Questions to Consider Before You Invest — provides over 150 specific questions to ask before you invest in an oil and gas deal. These questions will advance your understanding of any investment you are considering and serve as a critical resource when you are performing due diligence.
Part IV: Glossary of Oil and Gas Terms
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The Prize
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The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil, and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations.
The Prize is as much a history of the 20th-century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous — from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.
The cast extends from wildcrafters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.
The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement — and great importance.
“The description above is the same as published on Amazon website (©1993 Daniel Yergin (P)2008 Simon & Schuster)”
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