Energy Industries & Utilities

Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Succ...

Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a miners' leader from the 1926 general strike to his retirement as general secretary of the National Union of Minewor...

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corrupt...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to free oil and natural gas trapped underground in low-permeability rock formations by injecting a fluid u...

There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique...

Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 ...

The book primarily aims to educate various stakeholders of society (i.e. policy and decision makers, energy circles, academia, business community, ...

Utility providers are under pressure from all sides to reduce costs, while improving availability, reliability, safety and sustainability: and as e...

The modern world is totally dependent on a continuing supply of energy from oil and other fossil fuels. However, recent natural disasters, global p...

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in...

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent. Total rent ca...

Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make...

The current distribution of power markets around intermediate structures between full integration and unbundling suggests that there has not been a...

This book surveys decision-making inthe energy field, especially electricity in the UK and Western Europe, andprovides a critique of the various cl...

This book critically examines exports of Iranian natural gas to regional and international markets. Owning the world's largest proven natural gas r...

This book highlights recent advances in energy research. The chapters included in this volume include research on nuclear power reactors, specifica...