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Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook

Investing in Oil and Gas

Mike May P.E. Β· 2012
πŸŽ™ Narrated by Dean Wendt
68/100
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Mike May's 20-plus years of petroleum engineering experience and a licensed P.E. credential produce a genuinely thorough resource: 150-plus due-diligence questions and a sprawling glossary that real investors in direct drilling participation will not find elsewhere. The content itself deserves a solid score, but the audiobook format is a significant liability β€” listeners explicitly recommend the print edition for anything involving references, websites, or the glossary. Dean Wendt narrates competently, though no amount of good delivery fixes the format mismatch when sections read out citation lists.

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πŸŽ™ Narration: fine Dean Wendt narrates competently, but the reference-heavy material β€” website lists, citations, glossary entries β€” is poorly suited to audio; most listeners recommend the print edition for actual use.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety84
Substance / usefulness71
Craft & writing48
Originality54
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers71
Age-fit68
πŸ‘ Human-eye gut-check76
Penny’s verdict68
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