A hole at the bottom of the sea
Subtitle: the race to kill the BP oil gusher
By: Joel Achenbach
Edition: Simon & Schuster pbk ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781451625370
Subjects: Offshore oil well drilling; Technological innovations; Oil well cementing; Technology and state; BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
Other titles: Race to kill the BP oil gusher
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in 2011. Reprinted in paperback in 2012 with a new introduction by the author. -- From cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Macondo; title: Inferno; title: Hot stabs; title: Crisis; title: Doomsday; title: Calling all geniuses; title: Louisiana; title: Top kill; title: Repercussions; title: A disaster site; title: Integrity test; title: The banality of catastrophe; title: An engineered planet.