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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Description
For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in United States history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Plainview's urge to control land and oil brings him into rivalry with Eli Sunday, the local preacher.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
A baseline study of natural gas wells and Laramie/Fox Hills (Klf) water wells in the Greater Wattenberg Area (GWA). The purpose of this study is to document the general composition of natural gas from 77 production wells and water quality of 9 Klf water wells in the GWA. The overriding goal of the project is to use these data to address concerns about potential impacts to groundwater resources from existing or future development of oil and gas production...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) currently has several rules, policies and procedures that, when implemented properly, are intended to result in wellbore integrity. "Wellbore integrity" is a system configuration, including casing, cement, annular fluid, and surface appurtenances (e.g., valves, piping, and emission control devices) to protect against infiltration and prevent the migration of oil, gas or water from one horizon...
Author
Series
Pelican Harbor volume 2
Description
Police Chief Jane Hardy is still reeling from the scandal that rocked her small-town department just as she took over for her retired father--the man who wrecked her life with one little lie. Now she's finally been reunited with her presumed-dead fifteen-year-old son, Will, and his father, documentarian Reid Bechtol. When a murder aboard the oil platform Zeus exposes an environmental terrorist's plot to flood Mobile Bay with crude oil, Jane and Reid...
16) Sea of greed
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Series
NUMA files volume 16
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Description
The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? Sea of Greed is the suspenseful new NUMA Files novels from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special...
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special...
18) Deep water
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Modern society runs on fuel-and drilling rigs are needed to dig massive holes for fuels such as oil and natural gas. Some drilling rigs float on water. Others are fixed in place. Some can even drill from a boat. Through informative text and full-color photographs, readers will learn the ins and outs of what makes a drilling rig work. They will learn about the individual parts of a drilling rig and where waste from drilling goes. But, most importantly,...
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