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"Newly-updated and translated into English for the first time, this standalone handbook perfectly combines background and theory with real-world experiments. An ideal companion for graduate students and researchers, as well as engineers involved in design of offshore systems"-- Provided by publisher.

A Bostonian seeking fame as an actor finds it instead as an oilman. Leaving Hollywood, Erwin meets a Texas oil driller at a bus station who needs a bright fellow to talk the banks out of foreclosing his operation.

The pressure to drill for oil in the Arctic has intensified with the increasing prices of crude oil. But the potential for lower oil prices is at what cost? In this feature-length documentary the Alaskan Inupiat show how oil drilling in their nearby seas will forever alter their subsistence-living lifestyle and multiply the struggles of preserving their rich cultural history. Members of the oil industry and expert scientists also highlight the predicted...

Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire?and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life...

With cutting-edge science and never-before-seen footage, this episode of Explorer goes deep inside the world of British Petroleum to uncover what really happened to the 4.9 million barrels of crude released into the Gulf of Mexico. Viewers are taken to the front lines with those who were tasked to fight the growing catastrophe. But is the disaster now over, or is it just beginning?