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Author
Publisher
Gulf Professional Pub
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Offshore Operation Facilities: Equipment and Procedures provides new engineers with the knowledge and methods that will assist them in maximizing efficiency while minimizing cost and helps them prepare for the many operational variables involved in offshore operations. This book clearly presents the working knowledge of subsea operations and demonstrates how to optimize operations offshore. The first half of the book covers the fundamental principles...
Author
Publisher
Gulf Professional Pub
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Designing and building structures that will withstand the unique challenges that exist in Subsea operations is no easy task. As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, engineers are confronted with a new set problems such as water depth, weather conditions, ocean currents, equipment reliability, and well accessibility, to name just a few. A definitive reference for engineers designing, analyzing and instilling offshore structures, Subsea Structural...
4) Sea of greed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to Tessa Franco, a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was a technological crisis in an alien realm: a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. For the engineers who had to kill the well, this was like Apollo 13, a crisis no one saw coming, and one of untold danger and challenge. A suspense story, a mystery, a technological thriller: This is Joel Achenbach's groundbreaking account of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and what came after. The tragic explosion on the huge drilling rig...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues related to oil spills and offshore drilling, discussing if the U.S. needs to drill offshore, if it poses too much of an environmental risk, if offshore drilling regulations are adequate, and what the future holds for offshore drilling.
9) Disaster on the horizon: high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xviii, 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides detail about the oil well accident that occurred in April of 2010, which the author describes as the worst oil well accident in United States history, and examines the oil industry, its resistance to regulations, and government concessions that cause the issues to remain.
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