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  • What the Frack?by Paddy Manning

    University of New South Wales Press 2013; US$ 4.99

    Australia 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 Choiceby E. L. Trist; G. W. Higgin; H. Murray; A. B. Pollock

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00

    This 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 Hydratesby Carlo Giavarini; Keith Hester

    Springer 2011; US$ 99.99

    Gas 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 Chinaby Guangding Liu; Changchun Yang; Tianyao Hao

    Springer 2012; US$ 79.99

    As 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 Waterby Kenneth Lee; Jerry Neff

    Springer 2011; US$ 139.99

    This 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 Russlandsby Gernot Erler; Peter W. Schulze

    Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 32.34

    Hauptbeschreibung 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 Industriesby Reza Javaherdashti

    CRC Press 2013; US$ 199.95

    The 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 Gasby OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 94.00

    The 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...