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Author : Kit Kittle
Publisher : Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780878334667
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Roughnecks written by Kit Kittle and published by Olympic Marketing Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bobby D. Weaver
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603442057
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Oilfield Trash written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oilfield Trash is written in a charming, flowing style that any reader will enjoy....In Weaver's capable hands, the gypsy lives of a generation of young men unfold on the rigorous stage of drilling fields...."---Paul Spellman, author of Spindletop Boom Days --
Author : Chris Turner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150111509X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Patch written by Chris Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness. But in 2008, a new narrative for the oil sands emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combatting climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews--one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship--each backed by major players on the world stage. The Patch is the seminal account of this ongoing conflict, showing just how far the oil sands reaches into all of our lives. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it requires us to ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?"--
Author : Darren Dochuk
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541673948
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Anointed with Oil written by Darren Dochuk and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.
Author : Jeff Crowder
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684091853
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Oilpatch written by Jeff Crowder and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a story about a hillbilly family sitting on top of a secret gold mine of oil that only a few people are aware of. The family members and oilmen jockeying for position to own the mineral rights to the vast fortune explodes into a small war, and an unlikely hero materializes to change the course of history. A man’s search for the truth inside a powder keg of confusion and the resulting bloodbath of greedy businessmen refusing to obey the law and heed to the rights of legitimate entrepreneurs seizing opportunities from the sellouts who caved in under the threat of economic instability after the terrorist attacks cemented the uncertainty.
Author : Estha Briscoe Stowe
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875650333
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Oil Field Child written by Estha Briscoe Stowe and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the lives of early-day oil field families in Texas boomtowns.
Author : Sheena B. Stief
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169982
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Boom or Bust written by Sheena B. Stief and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast number of studies have documented the economic and geological effects of oil production, but the impact of boom-and-bust cycles on individuals and communities has received less attention. Boom or Bust remedies this gap by highlighting the personal experiences of those directly affected in an economy dominated by oil and natural gas production. The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil-producing regions in the United States. People who live there have benefited from explosive growth, only to see opportunities vanish with sudden industry downturns. In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a grant for the study and collection of energy narratives in this economically volatile region. Boom or Bust derives from that community initiative and offers a unique contribution to the developing field of energy humanities. The oil-field industry may seem to be all about numbers, but as Boom or Bust demonstrates, residents of oil-and-gas country, whether they work in the oil field or not, are at the mercy of an ever-shifting economy. When the price of oil rises, companies move in and newcomers flood the area, expanding the employment force. And as the population booms, so does the infrastructure of cities. When prices drop, though, families must make difficult choices: whether to stay put or follow the oil to another location. With the ensuing declines in population, small businesses close their doors and unemployment levels rise. Despite the inevitable declines and despite the increase in alternative energy resources, many West Texans feel a sense of pride that borders on patriotism. Boom or Bust reveals the full complexity of boomtown culture.
Author : John Mansel Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964312609
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Texas Ranger in the Oil Patch written by John Mansel Wood and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patrick F. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881523
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Good Hand written by Michael Patrick F. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers—the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand." The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.
Author : Donald Paul Hodel
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895265029
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Crisis in the Oil Patch written by Donald Paul Hodel and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the oil industry and its economic, social, and political consequences are thoroughly probed in a study of the profound changes in this industry.
Author : Gary Gentry
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468515217
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Oil Patch written by Gary Gentry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why doesn’t anybody discover oil in a civilized place?” It’s a lament heard daily in remote locations around the world, collectively called The Oil Patch, where adventuresome expatriates produce oil and gas. It’s tough but rewarding, and once they live in the Oil Patch, they are foreigners wherever they go, even back home. These stories are taken from everyday life of people living in The Oil Patch. People in the Middle East who know the heart-breaking sound of home brew exploding in a closet in the middle of the night, who have waded through a marketplace full of kids shouting the English phrase known all over the world: “Hallo, Meester. Geeve me mahney!”
Author : Adrian Vega
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781645434221
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)
Download or read book O Is for Oil written by Adrian Vega and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "oil patch" of West Texas, also known as the Permian Basin, is rich in history and tradition. In Odessa, Texas, the West Texas sky is big, the people are friendly, and their "can-do" spirit runs as deep as the oil wells that dot the land. In O is for Oil: The ABCs of Odessa, the author and illustrator capture the heart and spirit of this great community through well-known images, places, and activities. From art, nature, culture, education, and energy, see what makes Odessa and West Texas a great place to live!
Author : Robert McNally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543689
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Crude Volatility written by Robert McNally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Oil's notorious volatility has always been considered a scourge afflicting not only the oil industry but also the broader economy and geopolitical landscape; Robert McNally makes sense of how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations. Tracing a history marked by conflict, intrigue, and extreme uncertainty, McNally shows how—even from the oil industry's first years—wild and harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by controlling production. Herculean market interventions—first, by Rockefeller's Standard Oil, then, by U.S. state regulators in partnership with major international oil companies, and, finally, by OPEC—succeeded to varying degrees in taming the beast. McNally, a veteran oil market and policy expert, explains the consequences of the ebbing of OPEC's power, debunking myths and offering recommendations—including mistakes to avoid—as we confront the unwelcome return of boom and bust oil prices.
Author : Johnnye Montgomery
Publisher : Rj Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780615253749
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Oil Patch Stories and Other Lies written by Johnnye Montgomery and published by Rj Communications. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted romp through the oilfields of West Texas as told by men who endured the grime and heat and bone-shaking cold, and sometimes found pay when the gas roared out of the ground to find them. Funny,informative and truer at the core than factual history.
Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786344
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers written by Gerald Lynch and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did—for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider’s view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.
Author : Gordon Bankston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The Oil Patch written by Gordon Bankston and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oil field humor.
Author : William L. Leffler
Publisher : Pennwell Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Petroleum Refining for the Non-technical Person written by William L. Leffler and published by Pennwell Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets forth the many technical procedures involved in refining. Included are a new chapter on simple and complex refineries, and a revised chapter on gasoline blending, including current information on alcohol blending components.
