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Great help for the average guy who needs help.
This book is great for the do-it-yourself guy or homesteader. Gives helpful tips and tricks, not to metion how to make your own drill pipe and well screen.Logging your well,mixing drilling mud,blowing the well, plus much more.Book is written in a easy to understand way with money saving tips too. What to look for in portable drilling rigs and what works and what does not. ... Read more

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An excellent easy-to-read introduction to oilwell drilling
Written in a simple language, this book is accessible to readers who are not specifically familiar with oilwell drilling. Numerous photographs and drawings make it a very accurate description of the equipment and activities on and around a land rig floor. Easy, enjoyable and very informative to read throughout.Read more

Subjects:  1. Mining    2. Oil well drilling    3. Petroleum    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Technology    6. Technology & Industrial Arts   

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Save 100s and make your own bits.
Great plans & guide with easy to follow pictures and step by step instructions guiding you through. No need to pay 100s when you can build your own drill bits for 3.00 to 5.00 per bit yourself.Anyone with some welding skills can do this. ... Read more

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Must read for anyone wanting a laugh and is interested in the oil game.
Did not put it down until I had finished. Definitely ¨laugh out loud¨funny. I don't recommend reading it in bed while your partner is trying to sleep. After a few too many stifled laughs and resultant kicks, I had to go to another room to finish reading it :)
Change of Pants Required
I almost wet my pants laughing my way through this book.The other patrons at the resort pool were giving me strange looks as tears ran down my face and I struggled to catch my breath.I couldn't put it down till it was finished!

One of the funniest books I've ever read!
Paul Carter tells his tales of working on oil rigs like very few others can. This book is literally "laugh out loud" funny. Written by an Australian and from an Aussie view point, non-Australian readers may not enjoy the humour as much as I did, but I guarantee that you will like the book and will probably read it more than once and pass it on to friends. It has been selling very, very well here in Australia since its release. It's really is a "don't miss" book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Description And Travel    6. Industries - Energy Industries    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Petroleum Drilling   

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casing design
burst, collapse, maximun load concept, kicks,tension, biaxial effects, graphical techniques, surface casing, intermediate casing, intermediate casing and liner, production casing, casing size, setting depth, fracture gradient, mud weight, maximun surface pressure, backup pressure,stuck pipe, lost circulation, cement weight, design factors, biaxial corrections, injection pressure, couplings, gas gradient, hydrstatic pressure, drift diameter ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Engineering - General    3. Industrial Health & Safety    4. Mining    5. Oil well casing    6. Petroleum Drilling    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Materials science    11. Mining technology & engineering    12. Petroleum technology    13. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Oil well drilling    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Drilling    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Petroleum technology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Gas well drilling    3. General    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Oil Reservoir Engineering    6. Oil well drilling    7. Petroleum    8. Reservoir oil pressure    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Petroleum technology    12. Science / Geology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Engineering Models    3. Fluid dynamics    4. Mathematical models    5. Mining    6. Oil well drilling    7. Petroleum    8. Petroleum Drilling    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Wells    13. Fossil fuel technologies    14. Petroleum geology    15. Technology / Mining    16. Technology / Petroleum    17. Technology-Engineering - General    18. Technology-Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Drilling muds    2. Engineering - General    3. Mining    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Drilling    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Shale shakers    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Fossil fuel technologies    11. Technology / Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Maintenance and repair    2. Oil well drilling    3. Oil wells    4. Petroleum    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Horizontal oil well drilling    3. Mining    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Drilling    6. Reference    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Petroleum technology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Civil    2. Engineering - General    3. Fire Science    4. Mining    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Underbalanced drilling (Petrol    9. Underbalanced drilling (Petroleum engineering)    10. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary Science   

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I couldn't put it down!!!
This is probably one of the most enjoyable books I have read in the last five years.The author and his cohorts are definitely brave, almost certainly missing a few screws and possibly suicidal, but they enjoy what they are doing so much that after a while the insanity of it all doesn't seem to matter.Stories about divers diving with football helmets so they don't get knocked out on the steel beams of the oil rig and the stalking of sharks (!!) in the opaque murk at the bottom of the sea floor would seem farcical or just stupid coming from almost anyone else, but when Fontova writes it is riveting, believable and also hilarious. It takes guts
As a diver and avid spearfisherman I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book from start to finish.Humberto expertly illustrates the essence of what it takes to dive on an oil platform.This aspect of scuba diving is definitely not for the faint at heart.His light humor throughout the book as he describes his dive buddies, friends, and adventures keeps your attention and adds to the story.I've never dived on an oil platform or "rig" as they are called, but after reading the book and hearing about all the big fish lurking below, I'm looking into making a trip to good ole Louisiana.Although he describes hunting 100 lbs plus fish, I'd settle for the 30 pounders.His stories of murky waters, sharks, eels, and angry trigger fish make you think twice about actually diving in, but hey, that is what makes for great diving stories.My hat off to Humberto.I only wish his book had more stories...at 203 pages, my appetite was just getting wet. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Drilling platforms    2. Fishing - General    3. Mexico, Gulf of    4. Scuba diving    5. Spear fishing    6. Sports    7. Sports & Recreation    8. Sports & Recreation / General    9. Sub-aqua swimming   

Subjects:  1. Construction - General    2. Directional drilling    3. Engineering - Civil    4. Mining    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building    9. Mechanical engineering   

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A quick and easy review of the foundations of well logging
This is the appropriate source for non petrophycisists needing a quick catch up with the basic principles of well logging and well log interpretation. There are no unnecessary details on tools design and performance. There are many useful examples and some interesting case studies are also included. I recommend it to any geoscientist willing to understand the basics. An updated edition with last generation logs would make the fifth star.Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Geology    2. Petroleum Drilling    3. Science    4. Geology & the lithosphere    5. Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. Blowouts    2. Engineering - General    3. Gas wells    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Offshore Exploration And Drilling    6. Oil wells    7. Petroleum    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Underwater drilling    12. Fire protection & safety    13. North America    14. Occupational / industrial health & safety    15. Petroleum technology    16. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety    17. Technology / Petroleum    18. Technology-Engineering - General    19. Technology-Industrial Health & Safety    20. Western Continental Europe    21. c 1980 to c 1990    22. c 1990 to c 2000   

Subjects:  1. Design and construction    2. Drilling platforms    3. Hydraulic Structures Design    4. Offshore structures    5. Petroleum Engineering (Specific Aspects)    6. Offshore engineering   

Subjects:  1. Age    2. Cold weather conditions    3. Core drilling    4. Earth    5. Earth Sciences - Geology    6. Ice excavation    7. Natural Disasters    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics