Here are some informative and inspirational books about Oil & Gas IT, programming and data management
| Title | Author | Affiliation |
| Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems | Center for Chemical and Process Safety | Center for Chemical and Process Safety | ISA-Process Safety Standards CD - 4th Edition | International Society of Automation | International Society of Automation | Layer of Protection Analysis - Simplified Process Risk Assessment | Center for Chemical Process Safety | Center for Chemical Process Safety | Safety Integrity Level Selection | Edward M. Marszal | International Society of Automation | Programming Pearls | Jon Bentley | Addison Wesley |
| More Programming Pearls | Jon Bentley | Addison Wesley |
| Alan Turing - the enigma | Andrew Hodges | Vintage |
| Data Analysis with open source tools | Phillip Janert | O'Reilly |
| Unix Shell Programming | Lowell Jay Arthur | Wiley |
| Perl pour l'impatient (in French) | Sébastien Desreux | H&K |
| Go To - software superheroes | Steve Lohr | Profile Books |
| Crypto - the code rebels | Steven Levy | Penguin |
| Rebel Code - Linux and open source | Glyn Moody | Penguin |
| Hackish PHP | Michael Flenov | AList |
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