Petroleum Engineering Books

1. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin.

2. Properties of Petroleum Fluids by William McCain.

3. Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Accounting by Charlotte Wright – Rebecca Gallun.

4. Oil 101 by Morgan Downey.

5. Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering, Volume 8 (Developments in Petroleum Science) by L.P. Dake.

6. Petroleum Production Systems (2nd Edition) by Michael J. Economides – A. Daniel Hill – Christine Ehlig-Economides – Ding Zhu.

7. Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (3rd Edition) by Ronald E. Terry – J. Brandon Rogers.

8. Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language by William Leffler.

9. Applied Drilling Engineering (Spe Textbook Series, Vol 2) by Jr. Adam T. Bourgoyne – Keith K. Millheim – Martin E. Chenevert – Jr. F. S. Young.

10. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold.

11. Elements of Petroleum Geology, Second Edition by Richard C. Selley.

12. Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling & Production by Norman J. Hyne.

13. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold.

14. Introduction to Well Logs and Subsurface Maps by Jonathan C. Evenick.

15. Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language by Martin S. Raymond – Dr. William L. Leffler.

16. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough.

17. The Simple Truth: BP’s Macondo Blowout by J. A. Turley.

18. International Petroleum Accounting by Charlotte Wright – Rebecca Gallun.

19. Petrophysics, Third Edition: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties by Djebbar Tiab Professor – Erle C. Donaldson Professor.

20. The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler.

21. Petroleum Refining: Technology and Economics, Fifth Edition by James H. Gary – Glenn E. Handwerk – Mark J. Kaiser.

22. The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and Finance by Andrew Inkpen – Michael H. Moffett.

23. Petroleum Geoscience by Jon Gluyas – Richard Swarbrick.

24. Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering (2nd Edition) by B. C. Craft – M. Hawkins – Ronald E. Terry.

25. Elements of Petroleum Geology, Third Edition by Richard C. Selley – Stephen A. Sonnenberg.

26. The Oil & Gas Industry: A Nontechnical Guide by Joseph Hilyard.

27. Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Seismic Data, 7th Edition by Alistair R. Brown.

28. Geology of Petroleum (Foundation Commemorative Edition Series) by Arville Irving Levorsen – Frederick A. F. Berry.

29. Drilling Technology in Nontechnical Language by Steve Devereux.

30. The Energy Reader by .

31. Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production: A Nontechnical Guide by William L. Leffler – Gordon Sterling – Richard Pattarozzi.

32. Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil (Norton Paperback) by David Goodstein.

33. Practical Formation Evaluation by Robert C. Ransom.

34. Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil by Ike Okonta – Oronto Douglas – George Monbiot.

35. Advanced Reservoir Management and Engineering, Second Edition by Tarek Ahmed PhD PE – Nathan Meehan.

36. Petrochemicals in Nontechnical Language by Donald L. Burdick – William L. Leffler.

37. Reservoir Geomechanics by Mark D. Zoback.

38. Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook, Eighth Edition: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems by E.W. McAllister.

39. Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration by James D. Lowell.

40. Oil & Gas Company Analysis: Upstream, Midstream and Downstream by Alfonso Colombano.

41. Petroleum Reservoir Engineering: Physical Properties by James W. Amyx – Daniel M. Bass – Robert L. Whiting.

42. The Age of Oil: What They Don’t Want You to Know About the World’s Most Controversial Resource by Leonardo Maugeri.

43. Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover, Third Edition: All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems by William C. Lyons – Thomas Carter – Norton J. Lapeyrouse.

44. Drilling Engineering by J.J. Azar – G. Robello Samuel.

45. Oil & Gas Pipelines in Nontechnical Language by Thomas O. Miesner – Dr. William L. Leffler.

46. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough.

47. State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama.

48. Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language Third Edition (Pennwell Nontechnical Series) by William L. Leffler.

49. Petroleum Refinery Process Economics by Robert E. Maples.

50. Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller.

51. Pressure Vessel Design Manual, Fourth Edition by Dennis R. Moss – Michael M. Basic.

52. Spindletop by James Anthony Clark – Michael Halbouty.

53. Petroleum Reservoir Simulations: A Basic Approach (+ CD Companion) by M. R. Islam – S. M. Farouq Ali – J. H. Abou Kassem – Jamal H. Abou-kassem.

54. Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank by Lisa Margonelli.

55. A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control: Methods and Models for Managing the Project Lifecycle (FT Press Project Management) by Randal Wilson.

56. Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations by Al Gedicks.

57. The Petroleum Industry: A Nontechnical Guide by Charles F. Conaway.

58. Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design by Bernt Aadnoy – Reza Looyeh.

59. Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes.

60. Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 by Judith Walker Linsley – Ellen Walker Rienstra – Jo Ann Stiles.

61. Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering (Spe Textbook Series) by .

62. Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives by Edwin Black.

63. Essentials of Modern Open-Hole Log Interpretation by John T. Dewan.

64. An Introduction to Seismic Interpretation: Reflection Seismics in Petroleum Exploration by R. McQuillin – M. Bacon – W. Barclay.

65. Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies by Vladimir Alvarado – Eduardo Manrique.

66. Integrated Waterflood Asset Management by Ganesh Thakur – Abdus Satter.

67. Characterization and Properties of Petroleum Fractions by M.R. Riazi.

68. Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas by Saeid Mokhatab – John Y. Mak – Jaleel V. Valappil – David A. Wood.

69. The Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum, Fifth Edition (Chemical Industries) by James G. Speight.

70. Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation by Alastair J. Sinclair – Garston H. Blackwell.

71. Downhole Drilling Tools by G. Robello Samuel.

72. Introduction to Oil Company Financial Analysis by David Johnston – Daniel Johnston.

73. The Seven Sisters by Anthony Sampson.

74. Money in the Ground-Insider’s Guide to Oil and Gas Deals (4th Ed.) by John Orban.

75. Practical Reservoir Engineering and Characterization by Richard O. Baker – Harvey W. Yarranton – Jerry Jensen.

76. Experimental Design in Petroleum Reservoir Studies by Mohammad Jamshidnezhad.

77. Well Logging in Nontechnical Language by David E. Johnson – Kathryne E. Pile – Kathryne E. Pile – David E. Johnson.

78. Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation by Francis Vanek – Louis Albright.

79. Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein.

80. Oil: A Beginner’s Guide (Beginner’s Guides) by Vaclav Smil.

81. Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian.

82. Fundamentals of Petroleum by Kate Van Dyke – Petroleum Extension Service (Petex).

83. Sandstone Depositional Environments (AAPG Memoir) by Peter A. Scholle.

84. Crude: The Story of Oil by Sonia Shah.

85. Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production (2nd Edition) by Norman J. Hyne – Norman J. Ph.d Hyne.

86. Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy in Well Logs, Cores, and Outcrops: Concepts for High-Resolution Correlation of Time and Facies (Methods in Exploration Series) by R. M. Mitchum – K. M. Campion – V. D. Rahmanian.

87. Acidizing Fundamentals by Bert B. Williams – John L. Gidley – Robert S. Schechter.