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What the Frack?
University of New South Wales Press 2013; US$ 4.99Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big oil and gas companies believe Australia could be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in the world, farmers and environmentalists are united... more...
Organizational Choice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative... more...
Gas Hydrates
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Gas hydrates are both a huge energy resource and an environmental challenge. They have a significant impact on society because of their applications to the future of energy, protection of the environment and fuel transportation. "Gas Hydrates" opens up this fascinating, multidisciplinary field to non-specialists. It provides a scientific... more...
Oil and Gas Resources in China
Springer 2012; US$ 79.99As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of oil and gas resources. They each craft a roadmap for their sphere of development to 2050. In their entirety,... more...
Produced Water
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99This title includes state-of-the-art review of scientific knowledge on the environmental risk of ocean discharge of produced water and advances in mitigation technologies. In offshore oil and gas operations, produced water (the water produced with oil or gas from a well) accounts for the largest waste stream (in terms of volume discharged). Its discharge... more...
Die Europäisierung Russlands
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung Russland ist auf dem Weg, eine europäische Großmacht zu werden. Zugleich befindet sich das Land in einem umfassenden Wandel, was in einer Reihe von Modernisierungsstrategien zum Ausdruck kommt. Im Vorfeld der Präsidentschaftswahlen 2012 analysieren Gernot Erler und Peter W. Schulze den widersprüchlichen, aber unaufhaltsamen Prozess... more...
Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries
CRC Press 2013; US$ 199.95The advancement of methods and technologies in the oil and gas industries calls for new insight into the corrosion problems these industries face daily. With the application of more precise instruments and laboratory techniques as well as the development of new scientific paradigms, corrosion professionals are also witnessing a new era in the way data... more...
Optimising Russian Natural Gas
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 94.00The world?s largest gas producer and exporter, Russia has an enormous energy saving potential. At least 30 billion cubic meters ? a fifth of Russian exports to European OECD countries -- could be saved every year by enhanced technology or energy efficiency. As the era of cheap gas in Russia comes to an end, this potential saving is increasingly important... more...









