Drawing from experts and top researchers from around the world, this book presents current developments in a variety of areas that impact offshore and ocean engineering
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"Based on extensive research and interviews with fishermen, coastal residents, biologists, and government officials, A Sea in Flames has some surprising answers on whether the blowout was "Obama's Katrina," whether the Coast Guard was as inept in its response as BP was misleadin…
"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April…
Shows processes for exploring, developing, and producing petroleum in the deepwater. Examines in detail the engineering and scientific schemes that companies use in the deepwater, dealing especially with how they differ from shallower operations and the onshore, and presents als…
"Offshore energy generation is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape. This book brings together the ecological, economic and social implications of the spatial conflict this growth entails"--
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth…
"The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the true costs, not the hyperbolic costs, and an explanation of the science and business of the spill and its remediation"--