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Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rousing musical adventure about a small town that strikes it rich. When their traveling show breaks down in a Pennsylvania village, Doc Watterson (Raymond Walburn) and his lovely daughter, Sally (Dunne), find a place to stay with aspiring oilman Peter Cortland (Scott). All of Peter's hard work pays off as he and Sally marry and he discovers a vein of oil that will make him and all his neighbors wealthy. When a railroad mogul schemes to get the land...
166) Blowout
Author
Series
Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
America is on the brink of crisis. Unless we can curb our dangerous appetite for foreign oil, petroleum-rich countries and speculators will bring our economy to its knees...long before CO2 emissions will devastate our ecosystem. The President has answered the call with the Dakota District Initiative, a top secret research team hidden deep in the Badlands of North Dakota. The Initiative is developing a way to produce clean energy from coal.
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Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Apply machine and deep learning to solve some of the challenges in the oil and gas industry. The book begins with a brief discussion of the oil and gas exploration and production life cycle in the context of data flow through the different stages of industry operations. This leads to a survey of some interesting problems, which are good candidates for applying machine and deep learning approaches. The initial chapters provide a primer on the Python...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An assessment of the events that led up to Jimmy Carter's infamous 1979 "malaise" speech places it against a backdrop of such events as the gas crisis and the Iran-hostage situation while explaining that the speech had far greater relevance than its reception reflected.
Author
Publisher
Bibliomotion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages)
Language
English
Description
"There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed. Christine Bader was one of those people. She loved BP and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights --...
170) On deadly ground
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To protect the Alaskan wilderness and its people an oil-rig roughneck and a Native Alaskan environmental activist battle a renegade oil company.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy. In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 1,397 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Power, wealth, sex, glorious extravagance. One place has them all - Dallas. This saga chronicles the exploits of the Ewing family, the wealthy Texas oil millionaires. Includes all 29 shows from season 1 and season 2.
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