Download or read book The History of the Standard Oil Company written by Ida Minerva Tarbell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deep Water The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling Report to the President January 2011 written by National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Dril and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill disrupted an entire region’s economy, damaged fisheries and critical habitats, and brought vividly to light the risks of deepwater drilling for oil and gas—the latest frontier in the national energy supply. Soon after, President Barack Obama appointed a seven-member Commission to investigate the disaster, analyze its causes and effects, and recommend the actions necessary to minimize such risks in the future. The Commission’s report offers the American public and policymakers alike the fullest account available of what happened in the Gulf and why, and proposes actions—changes in company behavior, reform of government oversight, and investments in research and technology—required as industry moves forward to meet the nation’s energy needs.
Download or read book The Offshore Imperative written by Tyler Priest and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mexico took on new strategic value. Shell Oil Company pioneered many of the early moves offshore and continues to lead the way into “deepwater.” Tyler Priest’s study is the first time the modern history of Shell Oil has been told in any detail. Drawing on interviews with Shell retirees and many other sources, Priest relates how the imagination, talent, and hard work of personnel at all levels shaped the evolution of the company. The narrative also covers important aspects of Shell Oil’s corporate evolution, but the company’s pioneering steps into the deepwater fields of the Gulf of Mexico are its signature achievement. Priest’s study demonstrates that engineers did not suddenly create methods for finding and producing oil and gas from astounding water depths. Rather, they built on a half-century of accumulated knowledge and improvements to technical systems. Shell Oil’s story is unique, but it also illuminates the modern history of the petroleum industry. As Priest demonstrates, this company’s experiences offer a starting point for examining the understudied topics of strategic decision-making, scientific research, management of technology, and corporate organization and culture within modern oil companies, as well as how these activities applied to offshore development. “. . . tells a dramatic story of imaginative businessmen and engineers who propelled Shell forward in the search for ways to locate and recover oil from the depths of the sea.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “This book’s narrative is sustained throughout by easily understood explanations of the technical details of drilling and production.”—Journal of Southern History
Download or read book Drilling Down written by Joseph A. Tainter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to increase in number and severity. In this era of fossil fuels, cheap energy and increasing complexity have been in a mutually-reinforcing spiral. The more energy we have and the more problems our societies confront, the more we grow complex and require still more energy. How did our demand for energy, our technological prowess, the resulting need for complex problem solving, and the end of easy oil conspire to make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill increasingly likely, if not inevitable? This book explains the real causal factors leading up to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, a disaster from which it will take decades to recover.
Download or read book Food Supply of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Supply of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Food Supply and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lloyd Register of Shipping 1920 Sailing Vessels written by Lloyd Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.
Download or read book Lloyd s Register of Shipping 1920 Sailing Vessels written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.
Download or read book Lloyd s Register of British and Foreign Shipping written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Antimonopoly Act of 1979 S 1246 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Bureau of Customs and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verbatim Record of the Proceedings written by United States. Temporary National Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Supply of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on agricultural and forestry and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complex of United States Portuguese Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearings held before and after the Apr. 25, 1974 coup, known as the Carnation Revolution, to consider the Azores agreement; U.S. military assistance to Portugal and its implications for U.S. relations with African; and developments in Mozambique, Angola, and the new Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Also considers present view in Portugal on the so-called territories in Africa, particularly those of General Antonio de Spinola, former commanding officer of Guinea-Bissau, and the question of Brazil's relationship with Portugal in Africa.
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