The Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition shares my stories, experiences, and best practices after working 45 years for multiple U.S. and International oil and gas companies and consulting as a petroleum engineeer. The contents of Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition are intended to save lives and prevent expensive mistakes. This book is the real deal based on actual experience, not like some of the other books on this subject that are based on an inexperienced author's internet searches.

You can avoid an expensive or tragic mistake by learning from others and save your company a lot of money, and maybe someone’s life. This book teaches you where the danger zones are during oilfield operations so you can stay out of harm’s way. A wide range of information is presented using case histories to prevent you from having your own oilfield train wrecks. There are millions of dollars of information shared in this book and someone or some company paid the price to learn these lessons.

The Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition combines Volume 1 and 2 and includes additional stories, experiences, details, equations, diagrams, charts and graphs and also provides best petroleum engineering, field operations, and landman practices. Included in this book are seven sample procedures used for completing new horizontal shale wells, recompletion of vertical wells, repairing casing leaks, coil tubing cleanouts, saltwater disposal well completions, plug and abandonments, and diagnostic fluid injection testing. There are 19 pages of engineering and geology equations. There is also a new chapter on Industry Advice for those just entering the oil and gas industry. There are also new chapters: Never List, and Always List, to highlight key learnings.

The Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition is written to provide you with a taste of the colorful conversations, stories, and events in the oil field, on the rigs, on the frac jobs, and in the jungle bars. Due to the interesting people working in the oil and gas industry, you will find many of these stories humorous and entertaining. Some of the stories or events are offensive or disgusting. They are included to demonstrate unacceptable behavior that has either hurt or offended others or destroyed families and careers. 

The Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition has technical stories that relate to reservoir engineering, production engineering, completions engineering including optimizing hydraulic fracture stimulations, drilling engineering, well control, facilities engineering, geology, land, enhanced oil recovery, collaboration and consulting agreements, and best management practices. There are numerous stories of how a superintendent, manager, vice president, or managing director intervened into operations and either contributed to good outcomes or caused trainwrecks. A trainwreck is a term used in the oil and gas industry for an operation that fails catastrophically costing millions of dollars and possibly loss of life.

A lot of time was spent preparing the index with color coding to identify text, chapter titles, photos, diagrams, graphs, and equations to allow this book to be an efficient technical reference. The Oil and Gas Survival Guide, 2nd Edition color hardback book is a must have for all engineers, geologists, landmen, field supervisors, managers, and vice presidents working for oil companies and service companies. I wrote this book with the goal of it being the only technical book you need if you work in the oil and gas industry. Where else can you get 45 years of engineering and managment experience from a book?