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Being an FE doesn't suck and not everyone hates it. There are certainly bad things about it - the schedule is the main one people complain about, but there are bad parts to every job.
As far as what you should study, it will be better off for you to read and understand then training materials you will be given rather than re-hashing Thermo. You aren't going to ever hear the word Enthalpy again, at least if you stay close to the wellhead.
You'll learn more in the field by asking questions than by reading a book. However, you need to understand the big picture of what all is going on, and this is the best book for you to read now.
Ask plenty of questions, learn how to run and maintain every piece of equipment you encounter, and don't be a dick head. If you can do that, you'll be just fine out there. Be safe.
https://www.amazon.ca/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/1593702698
Search for pdfs of this title. It's not specific to Alberta but you'll gain a general understanding of the oil and gas industry.
Look into nontechnical guides that will give you a broad look into the industry and help you understand it without going into the finer details that can be difficult to grasp. Check your school's library as well, often times they will have them available.
Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Nontechnical-Petroleum-Exploration-Drilling-Production/dp/1593702698
or this: https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Gas-Industry-Nontechnical-Guide/dp/159370254X
There so many specialized books out there about the O&G life-cycle. Oil 101 is definitely a place to start. Aside from that, understand the step of the O&G life-cycle that your project will focus on and do a deep dive as needed. Ex: Is it exploration, appraisal, development, production, abandonment, etc.?
Few books I would recommend besides Oil 101,
The answer to the headline question is no, a thousand times no.
Even Citi's vice chairman Robert Rubin was blind to e.g. 'liquidity puts' on massive off-balance sheet liabilities, which drastically changed Citi's economics to put in mildly. If Citi doesn't understand their own balance sheet, what chance have you got?
Even Warren Buffett sometimes gets blindsided. For instance, Amazon's cloud is eating IBM's lunch of running corporate IT departments and data centers, commoditizing what used to be a high-ticket, high-margin service business.
Even Warren Buffett puts a lot of stuff (most stuff?) in the too hard pile. Especially Warren Buffett.
You don't have to understand how to drill an oil well (although it helps, see e.g. http://amzn.to/24hNwlw , http://amzn.to/1sIYV22 ). What you have to understand is whether we're going to keep drilling oil wells, whether the guys who own and drill wells are going to keep needing Halliburton, and whether Halliburton can keep earning, growing and making a good return on capital re-invested.
My favorite intro book is Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production by Hyne. Someone with a geology background should be able to go through the ~600 pages pretty quickly.
Your university's bookstore probably has a list of the textbooks that were required for those courses in semesters past. Try calling if the bookstore has a poor website. If that doesn't work you can email professors or look at the website of another university's bookstore.
iTunes has a section called iTunes U which offers downloads of video lectures of undergrad and sometimes graduate level courses online for free. There is a course on petroleum geology in there taught at Delft University in the Netherlands (in English). Delft also has a bunch of free online stuff for offshore engineering.
Also, read this.
As far as courses - I have used some of the online freeware courses. Coursera had the Wharton Corporate Finance course online which I completed (I think you even get a little certificate). MIT Open courseware, Stanford has everything online. But none of those offer any O&G options. For O&G I can recommend this book
Good job with the networking, keep it up!
If you head to Houston, check into O&G temp agencies and O&G recruiters. There should be plenty if you're googling. Also, we have something like $120 billion of industrial project starts happening in 2014. Everything from ethylene crackers to power plants to pipelines to LNG export terminals. All these would require many many mechanical engineers. Start researching the big construction firms and start cold-calling them to see what's going on. If HR doesn't respond, move on to calling managers, etc.