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The document provides a list of recommended books for petroleum engineering students preparing for the GATE exam to study various topics. It lists books for drilling engineering, reservoir engineering, petroleum production operations, offshore drilling and production, formation evaluation, well testing, enhanced oil recovery, and exploration and latest trends. For each topic, several relevant books are provided along with brief descriptions. The document emphasizes the importance of practicing numerical problems and joining test series in addition to studying from the recommended books.

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The document provides a list of recommended books for petroleum engineering students preparing for the GATE exam to study various topics. It lists books for drilling engineering, reservoir engineering, petroleum production operations, offshore drilling and production, formation evaluation, well testing, enhanced oil recovery, and exploration and latest trends. For each topic, several relevant books are provided along with brief descriptions. The document emphasizes the importance of practicing numerical problems and joining test series in addition to studying from the recommended books.

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Balendra Singh, AIR 06, GATE-PE (2016)

Updated Jan 24, 2017

First of all, Let me enumerate some books which I feel every Petroleum Engineers
should read during graduation, GATE preparing candidates in particular.

1. Drilling Engineering

 Heriot-Watt-University-Drilling Engineering (particularly good for


Cementing, Chapter 8)
 Well Engineering and construction: H. Rabia
 Formula and calculations for Drilling operations: G. Robello
Samuel
 Petroleum Engineering and development studies, Volume-2,
Directional Drilling: T.A. Inglis (This book is good for directional
drilling, leave directional drilling from other books)
 Texas A&M University, Well Control: Jerome J. Schubert (Don’t
read the whole book, know your syllabus and go accordingly)
 Drilling Engineering: Neal J. Adams
2. Reservoir Engineering

 Fundamentals of reservoir engineering: L.P. Dake (read this book


thoroughly and skip the well testing part, it’s a best book for reservoir)
 Reservoir Engineering Manual: Frank W. Cole (only for drive
mechanisms)
 Reservoir Engineering Handbook: Tarek Ahmed (read at your own
risk, there are some printing mistakes even after subsequent editions. e.g
wrong decline curves labeling for exponential, harmonic and hyperbolic.
Use this book for numerical purposes and don’t forget to verify the
concepts you acquired from this book )
3. Petroleum Production Operations

 Heriot Watt University - Production Technology I & II (great book)


 Production operations, Volume 1 & 2 : Thomas O. Allen and Alan
P. Roberts
 Surface production operations, volume 1 & 2: Ken Arnold and
Maurice Stewart
 Petroleum Production Engineering, a computer assisted
approach: Boyun GUO, William C. Lyons, Ali Ghalambor (use
only for numericals)
For more details on Production Engineering you should go for

 Artificial lift methods: Kermit Brown


 Well completion design: Jonathan Bellarby
 Production optimization using nodal analysis: H. Dale Beggs
4. Offshore Drilling and Production
For this subject, I did not read any books, Prof. S Laik notes (for ISM people)
were much enough. For others, I would suggest to read their own professor’s
notes. It’s mostly a theoretical subject. You could also get some explanations on
YouTube, especially Schlumberger course CDs. Still there are few books but do
not entirely cover the syllabus.

 Floating drilling equipment and its use: Riley Sheffield


 Introduction to offshore structures: W.J. Graff
 Offshore operation facilities equipment and procedures: Huacan
Fang and Menglan Duan
5. Formation Evaluation

 Fundamentals of formation evaluation: Donald P. Helander


 Schlumberger’s Log interpretation Principles/Applications
 Cased hole and production log evaluation: James J. Smolen
Note: CBL-VDL log is greatly explained in Heriot-Watt Drilling book in Ch. 8

6. Well Testing

 Well Testing: John Lee (more than enough, I think)


7. Enhanced Oil Recovery

Again, I suggest to go for class notes.

 Enhanced oil recovery: Marcel Latil


 Enhanced oil recovery: Don W Green and G. Paul Willhite (SPE
Textbook series)
8. Exploration and Latest Trends

 Petroleum Formation and occurrence: B.P. Tissot and D.H. Welte


 Elements of Petroleum Geology: R.C. Shelly
 Fundamentals of Coal Bed Methane: John Siedle
 Natural Gas Hydrates, a guide for engineers: John Carroll
 Applied Geophysics: W.M Telford, L.P. Geldart, R.E. Sheriff
This exhaustive list covers almost everything. Don’t study everything from each
book. select chapters based on gate syllabus and then go ahead. I guess five
months of preparation is more than enough. Do some practice on numerical, if
possible join any test series.

I did my preparation in two and half months, hence I did lot of blunders because
of lack of practice. Since it was first time, some test series had errors too.
Therefore, I would suggest to do practice and revision.

PS: Don’t ask for notes from me, because I don’t have it now. Most of these books
can be found on websites like Library genesis etc.

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