1.

Reservoir Engineering - L P Dake, Tarek Ahmed

2. Drilling Engineering - Rabia, Neal Adams
3. Well Test Analysis - John Lee
4. EOR - Aurel Caracona
5. Logging - Paul Glover
6. Production Engineering - H. Dale Beggs

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.