This is an excellent primer on the Energy sector and being nontechnical it will help the reader with the body of knowledge of the sector. The author makes a great effort and communicating in plain English and it is extremely helpful. The...

The Pipeline Products and Services Association (PPSA) put this primer out on pipeline pigging in support of its request for general information on the subject. It is an excellent primer on the subject. It describes what is a "pig",the hi...

Given the current media dribble, this is a good primer on what deepwater exploration and production is and its challenges--in simple English.
Leffler, Pattarozzi, and Sterling did an admirable job of explaining the history and continued ...

Understanding anything new requires a foundation. Geologists from the Houston Geological Society did a nice job of laying out the requirement to find an oil/gas field. It is a simple, serial approach in simple English. It provides the re...

Well-organized work and easy to understand. It breaks up the subject in digestible pieces and can be read from front to back or in the areas you seeking to understand. Thomas Miesner does good work in this and other works he co-authors f...

A very good book and reference. Steve Devereux did a great job with his non-technical approach to this book. He laid the foundation in earlier chapters and built on it throughout the book, including referring back to the earlier discussi...

Nick, does a good job and breaking down the body of knowledge used in investing in oil and gas wells. You should not invest in something you do not know what the terminology implies. This book is for someone new to the area or is trying ...

This is an excellent primer on the Energy sector and being nontechnical it will help the reader with the body of knowledge of the sector. The author makes a great effort and communicating in plain English and it is extremely helpful. The...

Mssrs. Phelps and Kline take on how Microsoft changed from a Closed Cloister approach to one of Open Book. In doing, so they expedited the ways Microsoft and others could document and share one another's intellectual property in an easie...

A short, poignant discussion on the major things thing entrepreneurs need to consider. It is a little choppy, but the content is well-done. It was put together from a series of lectures threaded together. It is though provoking and writt...

A good holistic view at the challenges and various ways of transferring unwritten knowledge. It is more than a discussion of the issues. It looks at ways for forming a project to garner and transfer the knowledge before the exodus.

Bill Baker and Mike English do a great job in handling a complex subject with plenty of examples to make their important point. If you do not do anything else, study the first couple of chapters since they layout the map and address the ...

Mssrs. Phelps and Kline take on how Microsoft changed from a Closed Cloister approach to one of Open Book. In doing, so they expedited the ways Microsoft and others could document and share one another's intellectual property in an easie...

This is one of the best pieces ever written on the failure to transfer operational knowledge. It is a case study worthy of further investigation. When the USS Iowa was taken out of moth ball and refitted for modern use, all the knowledge...