Drilling down
Subtitle: the Gulf Oil debacle and our energy dilemma
By: Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek
Contributors: Patzek, Tadeusz W.
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781441976765
Subjects: Accidents; Social aspects; Offshore oil industry; Complexity (Philosophy); BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Drilling platforms; Oil spills; Energy policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The significance of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; title: The energy that runs the world; title: Offshore drilling and production, a short history; title: The energy-complexity spiral; title: The benefits and costs of complexity; title: What happened at the Macondo Well; title: Why the Gulf disaster happened; title: Our energy and complexity dilemma: prospects for the future; title: Appendix A. Glossary; title: Appendix B. Offshore Production; title: Appendix C. Operating an offshore platform; title: About the authors; title: Index.