121 books
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71 voters
Petroleum Books
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,083 ratings — published 1991
Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.00 — 172 ratings — published 1995
Treasure of Khan (Dirk Pitt, #19)
by (shelved 4 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,500 ratings — published 2006
Petroleum - Das Naturheilmittel zur Aktivierung der Selbstheilungskräfte: Was Sie über das Naturheilmittel wissen sollten und weshalb es die Pharmaindustrie der Menschheit vorenthält (German Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published
Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language Third Edition (Pennwell Nontechnical Series)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.23 — 262 ratings — published 1979
Reservoir Engineering Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.52 — 54 ratings — published 2000
Elements of Petroleum Geology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.94 — 53 ratings — published 1985
Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.32 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,349 ratings — published 2012
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,367 ratings — published 2009
Hydraulic Fracturing Explained: Evaluation, Implementation, and Challenges (Gulf Drilling)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.92 — 106 ratings — published 2005
Reservoir Geomechanics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.48 — 23 ratings — published 2007
Oilfield Survival Guide, Volume One: For All Oilfield Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published
Advanced Reservoir Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 1996
Petroleum Engineering Handbook for the Practicing Engineer, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.26 — 35 ratings — published 1992
Petroleum Geology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.86 — 22 ratings — published 1985
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,487 ratings — published 2014
Waterflooding: Textbook 3 (Spe Textbook Series)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1986
Well Completion Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.53 — 15 ratings — published 2009
Petroleum Engineering Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 1987
Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1996
Petroleum Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.08 — 24 ratings — published 1990
Golden Buddha (Oregon Files, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,480 ratings — published 2003
Kapitoil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,281 ratings — published 2010
The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.90 — 135 ratings — published 2008
Oil 101 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 4.16 — 812 ratings — published 2009
Inverse Theory for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization and History Matching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.17 — 154 ratings — published 2005
The World Ahead 2026 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2025
Petroleum Accounting: Principles, Procedures & Issues, 7th edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2011
oil & gas in tthe twenty first century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published
Reservoir Engineer, Petroleum Engineer, Drilling Engineer: Formulas, Principles & References: Just In Time Revision Guide for Success at Petroleum & Reservoir Engineering Job Interview (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2014
Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.92 — 25 ratings — published 2015
Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock: From Classical Methods to Modern Approaches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1995
Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Dangers of Hydraulic Fracturing Explained in Under 30 Minutes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America's Energy Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.09 — 96 ratings — published
Oil Man: The Story Of Frank Phillips & The Birth Of Phillips Petroleum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.17 — 98 ratings — published 1988
Modern Fracturing - Enhancing Natural Gas Production (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,752 ratings — published 2020
52 Things You Should Know About Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2013
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.10 — 556 ratings — published
A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.67 — 124 ratings — published 2009
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,663 ratings — published 2005
Origin and Prediction of Abnormal Formation Pressures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2002
Fundamental Principles of Reservoir Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.25 — 8 ratings — published 2002
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.08 — 40 ratings — published 1978
Reservoir Engineering: The Fundamentals, Simulation, and Management of Conventional and Unconventional Recoveries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2015
Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum)
avg rating 4.50 — 16 ratings — published 2014
“Oil, they had discovered, could be used as a weapon. Suddenly, Saudi Arabia took on the position Texas itself had once had and became the swing oil producer for the great industrial nations of the world. The biggest transfer of wealth in human history was under way. Hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenues poured into the Saudi Kingdom. The Saudis were drowning in petrodollars.”
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals












