Amanda Barlow

Amanda Barlow is a contract geologist who has worked within the offshore oil and gas, coal seam gas and minerals industries – a career spanning over 30 years. She can be contacted through her LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-barlow-wsg

Amanda is also a recreational marathon runner and a published author of three books. She has run 47 marathons in 16 different countries around the world, including the Jungle Marathon, in Brazil, the story of which was told in her first published book: “Call of the Jungle – How a Camping-Hating City-Slicker Mum Survived an Ultra Endurance race through the Amazon Jungle” (available in print and kindle version on Amazon.com).

Her second book: “An Inconvenient Life: My Unconventional Career as a Wellsite Geologist” documents her 30+ year career as a Geologist and how she ended up working as a wellsite geologist on offshore oil and gas rigs.

You can follow “An Inconvenient Life” on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AnInconvenientLife

Amanda's third book "Offshore Oil and Gas PEOPLE" is an overview of what it’s like to work on an oil rig, and the role everyone plays. This handy guide can serve as a pre-deployment induction manual for all new starters in the industry so they know what to expect when they get to a rig for the first time or for people wanting to get into the industry. Also an informative guide for family and friends of offshore workers.