Oil Patch: Living in Oil Company Compounds from Desert to Jungle - Softcover

Gentry, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1418424471 ISBN 13: 9781418424473

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

"Why doesn't anybody discover oil in a civilized place?" It's a lament heard daily in remote locations around the world, collectively called The Oil Patch, where adventuresome expatriates produce oil and gas. It's tough but rewarding, and once they live in the Oil Patch, they are foreigners wherever they go, even back home.These stories are taken from everyday life of people living in The Oil Patch. People in the Middle East who know the heart-breaking sound of home brew exploding in a closet in the middle of the night, who have waded through a marketplace full of kids shouting the English phrase known all over the world: "Hallo, Meester. Geeve me mahney!"

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Gentry is an engineer who worked for over thirty years in the Oil Patch, from the Libyan desert to Indonesian Borneo and Jakarta. Gary is a fugitive from Libyan justice for smuggling root beer. He was a freelance feature writer for Kemchick World magazine in Jakarta and frequently contributed op-ed pieces and fiction to The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's national English language newspaper. He has the distinction of writing the feature story for the first and only issue of Jakarta Tattler magazine before the Suharto regime revoked its publishing license. In addition, he has written and staged five original plays for Jakarta Players. Gary is semi-retired, spending summers in Cossayuna, New York and winters in Phoenix, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1418424471
• ISBN 13: 9781418424473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88