Disaster on the horizon : high stakes, high risks, and the story behind the Deepwater well blowout
Bob Cavnar
Bok · Engelsk · 2010
| Utgitt | White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. , c2010
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| Omfang | xviii, 230 s.
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| Opplysninger | Unleashing the beast and paying the price -- The well from hell: drilling the Deepwater -- How blowout preventers don't work- Technology reaching beyond our ability to control it -- A rogue from the start: influencing world politics, gambling with safety -- How did we get here? A brief history of offshore drilling -- Corporate shape-shifting and the BP/government merger -- How not to save an ecosystem: dispersants, skimming, and booming -- Top cap, top hat, top kill, capping stack: making it up as we go along -- Going for the kill: firefighting and relief wells -- The politics of offshore drilling -- The aftermath: what do we do now?
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| Emner | British Petroleum Company
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 Offshore oil well drilling - History - Mexico, Gulf of Oil spills - Mexico, Gulf of Vis mer... Oil wells - Blowouts - Mexico, Gulf of
oljeutslipp utblåsing ulykke katastrofe mexicogulfen petroleumsvirksomhet oljepolitikk miljøpolitikk usa |
| ISBN | 9781603583169
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