Petroleum & Oil Industries

This book addresses aspects of international law relating to petroleum contracts, examining oil and gas agreements between states and private compa...

The remarkable story of one man's journey to leadership of the world's largest energy company, The Caravan Goes On is the first published inside ac...

Anointed with Oil is a groundbreaking new history of the United States that places the relationship between religious faith and oil together at the...

''Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This...

Oil waste was everywhereon the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children ...

In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Mini...

In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Mi...

The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, on 25 October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. At th...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observers Thirty books to help us understand the w...

Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom o...

In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The need for oil in Asia's new indus...

This book describes how Saudi Arabia''s oil, gas and mineral resources were discovered, and looks at key stages in the development of the oil and g...

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

In 1956, geophysicist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert forecast that American oil production would peak surprisingly soon and decline s...

The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far s...

Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions wh...

A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature a...

In this book, Alan Taylor reveals that the history of Dorsets oil starts in the 1850s with attempts to extract oil and gas from mined oil shale at ...

While unravelling the mystery of her father - a Master Spys - death, an investigative journalist reveals the truth behind an era of endless wars in...

Geosequestration involves the deep geological storage of carbon dioxide from major industrial sources, providing a potential solution for reducing ...

Becoming the centre of public debate during the 2014 Scottish referendum, the North Sea oil forms a crucial chapter in Scottish history. Written by...