Greig Grey

I revised my book and changed the title to "Oil Field Trash Roughneck Tales From The Rig Floor."

The book's original title: “Oil Field Trash And Other Garbage,” was meant on my part to take a tongue in cheek swipe at the novel. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I would beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage."


It was brought to my attention that many of the men who are in the fraternity of Oil Field Trash—which I’m also a proud member—thought I was referring to them as garbage. Which was not my intent by any means. It’s a tough club to join and few men earn the badge of Oil Field Trash. When I broke out in the big boom of 1981 it was a revolving door of weevils. Maybe one guy in twenty lasted long enough to collect a full paycheck. One tool-pusher suggested installing nets to cover the derricks. “Keep them birds from thieving our worms.”

But I totally understand the confusion and would never throw a brother under the bus or a rig up tandem for that matter.

I added two stories to the book, to liven it up a bit at the start; stories of theft, deception, sabotage, and a rig move gone wild.

The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck—spanning my eight year career in the industry. First person accounts of breaking out as a weevil and literally working my way up the ladder. A foot on the gas glimpse into the wild world of roughnecking.

So search Amazon for the new title and check it out. I hope that you like it. Greig Grey