A swamp full of dollars
Subtitle: pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier
By: Michael Peel
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781441683700; 9780857717191; 9780857730008; 9786000041076; 9781845119201
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Pétrole; Industrie et commerce; Conditions économiques; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industries; General; Economic history; Erdölindustrie; Erdöl
Description: Michael Peel tells the story of Nigeria which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its crude oil pumps through its cities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maps; Prologue: Trigger Point; PART ONE: The Hundred Years Oil War; 1 Stark Illiterates and Junkies; 2 Where Duty and Glory Lead; 3 More Popular than Churchill; PART TWO: Living at the Oil Frontline; 4 The Boys from the Bookshop; 5 Fuel the Bike, Fuel the Rider; 6 The Discerning Gentlemen; PART THREE: The New Gulf Conflict; 7 Fish, but not Fishing; 8 Things Are Looking Up; 9 Not Hostages but Journalists; Epilogue: The Hope of the World; Notes and Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index.