Investing in Oil and Gas Wells

By Nick Slavin

Book Overview

Investing in Oil and Gas Wells explains oil and gas investment in simple terms for the prospective investor. Following an overview of the process by which oil and gas is explored for and produced, it This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419675087
• ISBN13: 9781419675089
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Investing in Oil and Gas Wells - Great for broker training

This book has been helpful for training new brokers in the oil and gas industry. The FINRA licensing tests are fine for the regs, but this puts it in investor-friendly form.

small book; very good

This is a small book -- only 75 page with notes, but it is very well written and tersely but competently explains the essentials of the subject. It is very readable and pitched just right--- it is intelligent and does not oversimplify but avoids being technical, too detailed or too dry. The chapters are: 1) exploration and production basics parts 1 & 2; 2) Tax advantages to the Ol & Gas investor; 3) Deal Structures; and 4) applying financial concepts. In its small size the book succeeds in painting a comprehensive overview of the subject-- it explains the mechanics of the drilling enterprise, the roles of various parties (including the landowner,operator and various active or passive investor and business partners), decision points in the drilling enterprise and allocations of expenses and profits. An excellent and intelligent introduction to the subject.

Good overall, tax chapter is particularly useful

This book has good coverage of oil and gas exploration for a broad audience, but could stand to have a few more illustrations and tables to explain some of the concepts. It's got a pretty thorough step-by-step explanation of the process from exploration to drilling to (hopeful) profit. Who knows what black gold lurks under yonder plains; this book can help you find out. It's a reasonably quick read and pretty dense. The book's coverage of the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) is particularly useful; for many energy investors the AMT is becoming more and more important. I haven't seen any other books of this type that so thoroughly cover the impact of the AMT. Did you know that the AMT can result in double-taxation? This book explains how to structure your investment so that if you make more than $100,000 (which hopefully you will) you'll be able to minimize the risk of getting hit with a huge AMT bill. Hopefully the next edition will fix the problem with the charts; it's hard to follow some of the tax examples without having a table or a chart or something.