Best drilling procedure books according to redditors
We found 29 Reddit comments discussing the best drilling procedure books. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 29 Reddit comments discussing the best drilling procedure books. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
There’s a book about sportfishing around rigs in the gulf. It was on my reading list long ago and I never got around to it but it claimed they caught large things which have never been seen before. I vaguely remember some of them diving near rigs to get a closer look and said it was one of the most dangerous thing they ever did.
Edit: I remembered it differently but the book is called the helldiver’s rodeo about oil rig spearfishing in the Gulf of Mexico:
The Helldivers' Rodeo: A Deadly, Extreme, Scuba-Diving, Spear Fishing Adventure Amid the Offshore Oil-Platforms in the Murky Waters of the Gulf of Mexico https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590770056/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_8HoDAbNP2HMKY
Being an FE doesn't suck and not everyone hates it. There are certainly bad things about it - the schedule is the main one people complain about, but there are bad parts to every job.
As far as what you should study, it will be better off for you to read and understand then training materials you will be given rather than re-hashing Thermo. You aren't going to ever hear the word Enthalpy again, at least if you stay close to the wellhead.
You'll learn more in the field by asking questions than by reading a book. However, you need to understand the big picture of what all is going on, and this is the best book for you to read now.
Ask plenty of questions, learn how to run and maintain every piece of equipment you encounter, and don't be a dick head. If you can do that, you'll be just fine out there. Be safe.
ok.. I am still interested in this fracking nightmare you speak of. I can see of course you might be anti-capitalism or anti-government. I can understand that.
I dont by any means mean this as an insult, but do you know how fracking works? do you know how oilwells are drilled? Have you studied how any of this works? I know there is alot of fearmongering and misinformation out there, so it is easy to be scared about it.
I am with you on preventing both human and environmental disasters. I believe firm regulation can address that.
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if you want to get more information try this book (im sure if you looked you can find a free PDF Of it available)
http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Oilwell-Drilling-Basic-Text/dp/0886981948
https://www.amazon.ca/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/1593702698
Search for pdfs of this title. It's not specific to Alberta but you'll gain a general understanding of the oil and gas industry.
A Primer of Oilwell Drilling
Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language
The first one is available online, for free, I’ve found.
Read up on the industry so you can ask your uncle informed questions.
Not sure how old you are, or your fitness level, but in past years, a good “entry level” role was working as a rig hand... tough work, but it gave you firsthand experience with a lot of the tools.
I work as a MWD field engineer on land alongside Directional Drillers everyday. Both jobs don't have a set schedule at all. We work a job from when we're called there until the finish. This can be anywhere from a week to 6 or more weeks, working 12 hours a day/7 days a week. Usually we get maybe a week in between jobs, but when it gets busy you'll get sent straight to another job without a break. Every now and then there will be rigs where they like the crew on location and have multiple wells to drill, so a rotation is set up for 20 on 10 off. Most of these rotations i've seen last maybe a few months, until work gets busy enough to where they have to pull one of the guys off rotation for another job, so it really all depends on luck.
Personally, I don't regret the field but for me its more of a means to an end. There's great training and lots to learn, and working as a field engineer is the perfect opportunity to get your foot in the door for better positions later on in your career. Of course many stay in the field for the money which is amazing, but social/family life is non existent.
Most companies i've seen rarely hire Directional Drillers straight from school, they usually require someone with 2-3 years experience as a MWD, or a Driller who worked their way up from roughneck. This is mainly due to how much knowledge and how important the Directional Driller's job is, so before applying I would do my research on everything rig related and learn the equipment/techniques used to drill. A good intro book I used was A Primer of Oilwell Drilling, which I know many companies use in training their new engineers. Best of luck!
I recommend Machine Shop Practice Vol. 1 & 2 to get a sense of the machinist's trade. You will have no idea what half the stuff in the book means until you've spent a few months on a conventional lathe or mill, but the reference will be extremely helpful as you progress. There's next to nothing about CNC work in there, unfortunately, but it's one of the best general references I know for this work.
Look into nontechnical guides that will give you a broad look into the industry and help you understand it without going into the finer details that can be difficult to grasp. Check your school's library as well, often times they will have them available.
Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/1593702698
or this: https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Gas-Industry-Nontechnical-Guide/dp/159370254X
Have you read Helldivers' Rodeo? If not I highly recommend it!
I work in drilling. My location has copies of A Primer of Oilwell Drilling for new hire engineers to study. It gives a good overview of the drilling process and has a lot of pictures.
Good luck with the job search, but be sure to have a backup plan.
Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production
Skip some chapters and read the others.
Also, the Unwritten Laws of Engineering.
Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)
Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel
Engineerguy's Youtube Channel
Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel
mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel
Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel
Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel
NYCNC's Youtube Channel
Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel
History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds
Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury
A History of Machine Tools by Bradley
Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum
A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume
Tools and Machines by Barnard
The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley
Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort
Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray
Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes
History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko
Rust: The Longest War by Waldman
The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer
Optical Shop Testing by Malacara
Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King
Advanced Machine Work by Smith
Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich
Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam
The Martian: A Novel by Weir
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute
Cosmos by Sagan
Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.
Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall
Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc
The Intel Trinity by Malone
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson
A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding
Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling
Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy
Precision Engineering by Evans
Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick
Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith
Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou
American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.
Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop
Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin
Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick
CNC Programming Handbook by Smid
Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.
Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch
Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor
Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe
Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold
Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi
Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith
I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting
I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.
American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley
Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik
Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling
Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt
[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()
English and American Tool Builders by Roe
Machine Design by Norton
Control Systems by Nise
That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)
Two books that should help, depending on what exactly you want to do -
1: A Primer of Oilwell Drilling (This is a UTexas book that is super-expensive if you buy from the publisher, but there should be cheap used copies floating around).
2: Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production - This is also expensive from the publisher, but honestly feels more like a textbook on the petroleum industry (whereas the first one feels more like a big pamphlet).
edit- Amazon links
J.A. Turley did an investigation and wrote a book on the spill. I saw him give a lecture on the subject. It's very good.
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Truth-BPs-Macondo-Blowout/dp/0985877219
The SPE fundamentals series is great - this drilling book is what I used in school and still reference in my nondrilling role as an engineer.
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Drilling-Engineering-Spe-Textbook/dp/1555632076
This reservoir engineering handbook is the same. Supposedly cream of the crop.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/185617803X/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile
It however is out of print and highly sought after so that price is real. I might know a guy that has a physical and digital copy if you want to wheel and deal though lol
http://www.amazon.com/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/087814823X
I was in the same boat as you and purchased this book. It is great and I highly recommend a copy to reference throughout your career if you stick with Oil and Gas.
If you are in the Houston area you can borrow my copy for a couple months (I recommend taking notes as you read). PM me if interested.
There so many specialized books out there about the O&G life-cycle. Oil 101 is definitely a place to start. Aside from that, understand the step of the O&G life-cycle that your project will focus on and do a deep dive as needed. Ex: Is it exploration, appraisal, development, production, abandonment, etc.?
Few books I would recommend besides Oil 101,
The answer to the headline question is no, a thousand times no.
Even Citi's vice chairman Robert Rubin was blind to e.g. 'liquidity puts' on massive off-balance sheet liabilities, which drastically changed Citi's economics to put in mildly. If Citi doesn't understand their own balance sheet, what chance have you got?
Even Warren Buffett sometimes gets blindsided. For instance, Amazon's cloud is eating IBM's lunch of running corporate IT departments and data centers, commoditizing what used to be a high-ticket, high-margin service business.
Even Warren Buffett puts a lot of stuff (most stuff?) in the too hard pile. Especially Warren Buffett.
You don't have to understand how to drill an oil well (although it helps, see e.g. http://amzn.to/24hNwlw , http://amzn.to/1sIYV22 ). What you have to understand is whether we're going to keep drilling oil wells, whether the guys who own and drill wells are going to keep needing Halliburton, and whether Halliburton can keep earning, growing and making a good return on capital re-invested.
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Oilwell-Drilling-Basic-Text/dp/0886981948
My favorite intro book is Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production by Hyne. Someone with a geology background should be able to go through the ~600 pages pretty quickly.
Your university's bookstore probably has a list of the textbooks that were required for those courses in semesters past. Try calling if the bookstore has a poor website. If that doesn't work you can email professors or look at the website of another university's bookstore.
iTunes has a section called iTunes U which offers downloads of video lectures of undergrad and sometimes graduate level courses online for free. There is a course on petroleum geology in there taught at Delft University in the Netherlands (in English). Delft also has a bunch of free online stuff for offshore engineering.
Also, read this.
As far as courses - I have used some of the online freeware courses. Coursera had the Wharton Corporate Finance course online which I completed (I think you even get a little certificate). MIT Open courseware, Stanford has everything online. But none of those offer any O&G options. For O&G I can recommend this book
Good job with the networking, keep it up!
If you head to Houston, check into O&G temp agencies and O&G recruiters. There should be plenty if you're googling. Also, we have something like $120 billion of industrial project starts happening in 2014. Everything from ethylene crackers to power plants to pipelines to LNG export terminals. All these would require many many mechanical engineers. Start researching the big construction firms and start cold-calling them to see what's going on. If HR doesn't respond, move on to calling managers, etc.
this is a good book that i keep as a reference
Nice, here are some more.
https://rbnenergy.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Oil-101-Morgan-Downey/dp/0982039204
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/24870/falling_short.html
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2470
http://www.igu.org/sites/default/files/node-page-field_file/IGU%20-%20World%20LNG%20Report%20-%202014%20Edition.pdf
There is the occasional subreddit food-for-thought, like this
Just got this for xmas, but haven't read it yet... supposed to be good