Petroleum & Oil Industries

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The Squeeze is an invaluable account of the modern oil industry and vital to understanding the awful truth about the current disaster in the Gulf o...

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...

The spike in the oil price to almost $150 per barrel in summer 2008 was the last great excess of the crazed noughties bull markets, staged even as ...

On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisi...

As Hitlers Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS killing units) marched into the Soviet Union directly behind the advancing Wehrmacht to murder Jews and others...

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...

Stern Magazine, the Black Scorpion: we will aim at everything - even if it is not moving Surrey Life magazine: George S Boughton was an oil engi...

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...

ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL C...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics. Oil. ...

Production of oil and natural gas from leased federal lands and waters is a significant source of revenue for the federal government. The Governmen...

The future of oil and natural gas production in Mexico is of importance for both Mexico''''s economic growth, as well as for U.S. energy security, ...

Almost four decades ago, in response to the Arab oil embargo and recession it triggered, Congress passed legislation restricting crude oil exports ...

This encyclopedia presents important research on the Middle East. Some of the topics discussed herein include Iran''''s ballistic missile and space...

In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and for...

The true story of frackings impacton Wall Street, the economy and geopolitics The technology of fracking in shale rockparticularly in the Permian ...

The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of on...

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

In the winter of 1901, in a field outside of Beaumont, Texas, the course of the world''s energy choices changed forever with the discovery of an oi...

Angola is the seventh largest country in Africa, divided in 18 provinces and situated in the southwest of the continent, in the tropical zone of th...

Over the past several years, gasoline prices have risen well above their historic average. In many parts of the United States, gasoline prices were...

From a nine million dollar start-up to a thriving nine billion dollar conglomerate, this narrative explores the remarkable rise of Newfield, an ind...