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The contents of the Oil and Gas Survival Guide book series are intended to save lives and prevent expensive mistakes. This book series teaches you where the danger zones are so you can stay out of harm’s way. A wide range of information is presented to prevent you from having your own expensive oilfield train wrecks that cost the oil and gas industry billions of dollars. The book series is written to provide you a taste of the RAW and UNCUT colorful conversations, stories, and events in the oilfield, on the rigs, on the frac jobs, and in the jungle bars. Volume 1 includes reputation and morals, adding value, communication including collaboration agreements, well control, hydraulic fracturing, lease agreements, recompletions, handover notes, artificial lift, and  the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Volume 2 includes reservoir engineering train wrecks, handover notes, expensive mistakes, writing procedures with examples, snubbing, fishing, great and not so great ideas, deadliest offshore disasters including the Piper Alpha disaster and the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, equations and rules of thumb. . . .