Raz’s Recommended Reads 2

The previous recommendation page was getting unwieldy to edit, so I created a new one.

Some Oil and Gas Books

Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production (2nd Edition) The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) What Went Wrong?, Fifth Edition: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided (Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE)

Some interesting IChemE safety-related publications:

The Safety Relief Valve Handbook: Design and Use of Process Safety Valves to ASME and International Codes and Standards (Butterworth-Heinemann/IChemE), HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 2nd Edition – IChemE, Liquid Hydrocarbon Tank Fires (BP Process Safety Series) – IChemE

Here are some ChemEng books selected by Amazon:

Troubleshooting Process Operations, 4th Edition, Process Technology Troubleshooting, Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing, Second Edition (Dekker Mechanical Engineering)

Here are some fundamental chem eng books I would recommend:

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Edition, Transport Phenomena, Revised 2nd Edition.

Here are some books from the CCPS:

Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems
Incidents That Define Process Safety (CCPS Concept Books)
Guidelines for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA, HAZOP), Hazards Identification, and Risk Analysis

How about a selection of books on chemical plants?

Ludwig’s Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Fourth Edition, Process Plants: A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, Second Edition, Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design.

I see Maurice Stewart has some new books:

Gas Dehydration Field Manual, Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual, Gas-Liquid And Liquid-Liquid Separators

Since I’ve been exposed to FPSO’s recently, here’s a selection for you to be introduced to the topic:

FPSO Handbook, Ship-shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and Operation, Floating Production Storage and Offloading: Vessel size, Topsides design, Re-fabrication, Hydrostatic analysis and Mooring system design

Let’s talk a bit about deepwater books:

Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production, A Sea in Flames, Disaster on The Horizon.

For those of you who have a healthy skepticism to my industry, these books are for you:

Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Barbarians of Oil: How the World’s Oil Addiction Threatens Global Prosperity and Four Investments to Protect Your Wealth (Agora Series)
Here is a selection of books which I am re-reading.

The following books have an interesting way of presenting history. Don’t let the word ‘cartoon’ fool you, there is a lot of reading in this set. Cartoon History of the Universe 1 Vol. 1-7 (Cartoon History of the Universe) (Pt.1), The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Volumes 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome (Pt.2), The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

Here are some hard boiled detective novels for a change.

Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1), Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2), Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)

I find that photography is more and more important when going to site, using it a record of finding, interesting things to share or lampoon, depending on your taste.

Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Boxed Set, Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, David Busch’s Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera