Circulate Bottoms Up: My Memoirs from The Oil Industry

by Craig Douglas

For more than thirty years Craig Douglas has experienced the ups and downs of life two-hundred feet above the ocean waves. His safety training company has been at the forefront of the oil industry in every corner of the globe during those three decades. And his story is one of endeavour, adventure and, mostly, hilarity.In Circulate Bottoms Up, Craig introduces us to Mexican pirates, ill-mannered Americans, Scottish psychos, and even a spear-throwing Indonesian picket line. He dodges Brazilian kidnappers, convinces a South African film-crew his workmate is Diego Maradona, and somehow flees Qatar with a suitcase of banknotes and his liberty. Circulate Bottoms Up is everything you ever needed to know about the oil industry and so much more.

194 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2020

About the author

Craig Douglas was born in Ely on a rainy, May morning in 1972, after a traumatic bus ride to the hospital. Since his conception he’s been what has been termed as a Pad’s Brat and travelled to Germany a couple of times to savour the taste of German Bier. He began writing at 14 when he wrote 2 page periodicals on the intrepid adventures of Conan the Stamp Collector. Somewhat disillusioned with village life he joined the British Army in 1990 and began a tumultuous, rather haphazard journey through Army life. Accruing memories and experiences along the way have helped him form the basis of many a short story. He has served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan.

He currently lives in Rugby with his wife and two children.