(Part 2) Top products from r/oilandgasworkers

Start with The Prize. If you want to understand the economics of oil you need to understand the history of the business, the player's, the Middle East (especially Saudi Arabia) and the Caspian.

These are some great books to help you understand the industry better:

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

The Handbook of Global Energy Policy

This book is pretty solid. Elementary but is a great foundation.

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

> worth almost $47 billion in liquid cash would agree

This is incorrect. Liquid cash is a number you can get from an ATM or walk into a bank and ask for. His wealth is tied to stock investments in mostly Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway.

> You need to take a chill pill, get back on your medication, and take off that fucking tin foil hat.

You need a book.

Oil 101 by Morgan Downey is a good overview of all parts of the industry. I recommend reading that before getting in depth with other resources recommended here.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982039204/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2jZWDbFH6N89N

Pick up and old copy of

http://www.amazon.com/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/087814823X


It's a great book no matter where you're at on the O&G scale. There is a new version that goes into depth on newer technology and things, but for you go ahead and get the old version if there is a huge price difference. Look around you should be able to get a copy for $20 or less since that's what I paid for mine 5 years ago.

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.

This what I recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Oilwell-Drilling-Basic-Text/dp/0886981948

Well, big IOCs mess up and pollute sometimes. People are right to get mad at that.

But they get additional ire, and I think it’s because people know whom they are the polluters that use the product, but the system is set up so it is difficult to not use this polluting product. So the oil companies are an easy target.

Check out this book, it really helps explain:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Hate-Oil-Companies/dp/0230115942

Read:

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independence/dp/1533667926

Ignore all your friends buying stupid shit.