Petroleum & Oil Industries

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet RepublicsThe Russian oil industrywhich vies with Saudi Arabia as th...

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoin...

Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will even...

Offering complete coverage of natural gas local distribution companies (LDCs), Local Distribution Pipelines in Nontechnical Language begins with a ...

In the 2nd edition of The Acquisition & Divestiture of Petroleum Property, authors Jim Haag & Gene Wiggins have revised and expanded upon ...

Many factors set oil and gas apart from other industries and make unique demands on its human resource management, including its global nature, the...

The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Stories from the Field relates specific examples of challenges in decision making, changing business practices, ...

Framed for a global audience, William Hughes' new book provides a fundamental basis for understanding legal problems commonly encountered when doin...

In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 197374 and 1979, which placed extraordinar...

As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes, the territory is becoming a flashpoint in world affairs. New trade routes, cutting thousands of mile...

The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its positionholds signifi cant trading and military advantages, yet the marit...

This is a history of the abuses suffered by Africa through colonial, imperial and capitalistic scrambles for oil that have plagued the continent fo...

Irvine Anderson carefully reconstructs the years between 1933 and 1950 and provides a case study of the evolution of U.S. foreign oil policy and of...

The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons, dr...

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people's lives interse...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

Several fiery rail accidents in 2013-2015 in the U.S. and Canada carrying crude oil produced from the Bakken region of North Dakota have raised que...