PublicationsBooks | Papers | Videos
Dr. Adams shares his experiences and knowledge with the petroleum industry by having written numerous books, conference papers and trade journal articles. Also, Neal Adams companies have been involved with various award winning videos and films. Neal Adams and other company personnel have participated in lead acting roles, producing, directing and script writing. The Desert Storm documentary that chronicled the Neal Adams Firefighters work to extinguish the fires in Kuwait after Desert Storm (1992) was the recipient for the 1993 Telly Award. Also, the video won the Silver Award in the 1994 New York Film Festival in the Industrial video category.
Books
Well Control Problems & Solutions
(1980)
Workover Well Control
(1981)
Drilling Engineering: A Complete Well Planning Approach (1985)
Drilling Problems and Drilling Optimization (1993)
Kicks & Blowout Control | co-authored with L. Kuhlman (1994)
Terrorism and Oil
(2003)
Chapter 11: Introduction to Well Planning, Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume II, Drilling Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers (2009)
Chapter 10, Drilling Problems, Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering. SPE Textbook Series Vol. 12. | Authored by Dr. Neal Adams (Neal Adams Services) and Dr. Alfred Eustes, Colorado School of Mines
Chapter 4: Well Control, Procedures and Principles, Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume II, Drilling Engineering, Society of Petroleum Engineers (2010)
Featured Paper
Adams, N.J., Mitchel, R.F., Eustes, A.W., Sampaio, J.H. & Antonio, A. O. (2017), A Causation Investigation for Observed Casing Failures Occurring During Fracturing Operations, SPE 18486 Paper presented at the 2017 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, Woodlands, Texas.
Videos/Films
• Technical Advisor to a Steven Seagal film, "On Deadly Ground" produced by Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, California (1994)
• Acting Role, Hydril film on blowout control (1977)
• Technical Advisor and on-camera work, PennWell Video film on Workover and Completions (1978)
• "Kuwait in Flames", a 25 minute documentary on firefighting techniques used in Kuwait (1992)