The Resource Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout, Bob Cavnar
Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout, Bob Cavnar
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 230 p.
- Contents
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- Unleashing the beast and paying the price
- The well from hell : drilling the Deepwater
- How blowout preventers don't work
- Technology reaching beyond our ability to control it
- A rogue from the start : influencing world politics, gambling with safety
- How did we get here? A brief history of offshore drilling
- Corporate shape-shifting and the BP-government merger
- How not to save an ecosystem : dispersants, skimming, and booming
- Top cap, top hat, top kill, capping stack : making it up as we go along
- Going for the kill : firefighting and relief wells
- The politics of offshore drilling
- The aftermath : what do we do now?
- Isbn
- 9781603583169
- Label
- Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout
- Title
- Disaster on the horizon
- Title remainder
- high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout
- Statement of responsibility
- Bob Cavnar
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cavnar, Bob
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TD427.P4
- LC item number
- C38 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- BP (Firm)
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
- Oil spills
- Oil wells
- Offshore oil well drilling
- Label
- Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout, Bob Cavnar
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-220) and index
- Contents
- Unleashing the beast and paying the price -- The well from hell : drilling the Deepwater -- How blowout preventers don't work -- Technology reaching beyond our ability to control it -- A rogue from the start : influencing world politics, gambling with safety -- How did we get here? A brief history of offshore drilling -- Corporate shape-shifting and the BP-government merger -- How not to save an ecosystem : dispersants, skimming, and booming -- Top cap, top hat, top kill, capping stack : making it up as we go along -- Going for the kill : firefighting and relief wells -- The politics of offshore drilling -- The aftermath : what do we do now?
- Control code
- 651903183
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 230 p.
- Isbn
- 9781603583169
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : recycled, alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010039935
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)651903183
- Label
- Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout, Bob Cavnar
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-220) and index
- Contents
- Unleashing the beast and paying the price -- The well from hell : drilling the Deepwater -- How blowout preventers don't work -- Technology reaching beyond our ability to control it -- A rogue from the start : influencing world politics, gambling with safety -- How did we get here? A brief history of offshore drilling -- Corporate shape-shifting and the BP-government merger -- How not to save an ecosystem : dispersants, skimming, and booming -- Top cap, top hat, top kill, capping stack : making it up as we go along -- Going for the kill : firefighting and relief wells -- The politics of offshore drilling -- The aftermath : what do we do now?
- Control code
- 651903183
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 230 p.
- Isbn
- 9781603583169
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : recycled, alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010039935
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)651903183
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