Pioneering offshore : the early years /
Schempf, F. Jay.
Tulsa, Okla. : PennWell Custom Pub.,
c2007.
Includes index.
In The Wet: The Earliest Pioneers -- Turnin' to the Right -- Offshore drilling: An old "new" concept -- Sometimes a hunch pays off -- The quest for rig mobility -- Wading Out With History -- Loading Up and Moving Out:  Offshore transport -- Keeping decks dry in deeper water: Bold New Rig Designs -- Listening for oil -- Offshore platforms: Wrapping wells in jackets of steel -- The World Offshore - Deep and Dangerous -- Industry growth calls attention to OCS ownership -- Barges and ships plunge drillers into deeper water -- Semis and drillships: Industry chants "Anchors away" -- Nature, the human element threaten industry's future -- Old Lessons and New: On-The-Job Learning -- Preventing the offshore nightmare: Wild Wells -- "Million-Dollar School" rings deepwater bell -- Diving: The fraternity of loners -- Digging and laying: The offshore pipeline story -- The International Scene and Observations -- In time, the Soviets and Latin Americans peer seaward -- Thunder Bayand the real James Stewart(s) -- The Offshore Energy Center Story.
Offshore oil industry