Oil: A Cultural and Geographic Encyclopedia of Black Gold [2 volumes] [Illustrated] 2014006601

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Volume 1: Topics
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Alaska Oil Pipeline
American Petroleum Institute (API)
Amoco Cadiz (France) (1978)
Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement (1944)
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Asian Economic Crisis (1997–1998)
Azadegan Field (Iran)
Bolivar Coastal Field (Venezuela)
Branobel Operating Company
British Petroleum (BP)
Burgan Field (Kuwait)
Cantarell Field (Mexico)
Chesapeake Energy
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)
ConocoPhillips
Crude Oil
Cushing, Oklahoma
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Gulf of Mexico, 2010)
Devon Energy Corporation
Drake Well (Pennsylvania)
Drillship
Dubai Petroleum Company
Dutch Disease
East Texas Oil Field
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)
Energy Consumption
Exploration
Exports
Extraction
Exxon Valdez (Alaska, 1989)
ExxonMobil
Fossil Fuels
Gasoline
Gazprom (Russia)
Ghawar Field (Saudi Arabia)
Globalization
Great Depression (1930s)
Greenhouse Gas
Guimaras Oil Spill (Philippines, 2006)
Hirsch Report (2005)
House of Saud
Hubbert, M. King (1903–1989)
Hubbert Peak Theory
Hurricane Rita (2005)
Imports
Industrial Revolution
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Iraq, U.S. Invasion of (2003)
Iraq National Oil Company (INOC)
Ixtoc Oil Spill (Gulf of Mexico, 1979–1980)
Jakob Maersk (Portugal, 1975)
Kerosene
Kerr-McGee
Keystone XL Pipeline
Kuwait Oil Fires (1991)
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)
Lakeview Gusher (California)
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
Lukasiewicz, Ignacy (1822–1882)
Lukoil (Russia)
Mossadegh, Mohammad (1882–1967)
MT Independenta (Turkey, 1979)
Nasser, Gamal Abdel (1918–1970)
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
Natural Gas
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
Niger Delta (Nigeria) (1976–1996)
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
1967 Oil Embargo
1973 Energy Crisis
1979 Energy Crisis
Nobel, Ludvig (1831–1888)
North Slope (Alaska)
Occidental Petroleum
Odyssey (North Atlantic, 1988)
Offshore Oil
Oil and Gas Pipeline
Oil Barrel
Oil Boom
Oil Conservation
Oil Depletion
Oil Field
Oil Imperialism
Oil Major
Oil Nationalization
Oil Oligarchs
Oil Prices
Oil Sands
Oil Shale
Oil Tanker
Oil Transportation
Oil Well
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran (1919–1980)
Pemex (Mexico)
Pennzoil
Pertamina (Indonesia)
Petrobras (Brazil)
Petrochemicals
Petrodollars
Petroecuador (Ecuador)
Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) (Venezuela)
Petroleum Politics
Petroleum Products
Petronas (Malaysia)
Pipeline
Piper Alpha North Sea Explosion (1988)
Pollutants of the Petroleum Industry
Prestige Oil Spill (Spain, 2002)
Proration Regulatory Laws
Prudhoe Bay (Alaska)
Qatar Petroleum Company
Refining
Reserves
Rockefeller, John D. (1839–1937)
Romanian National Oil Company
Rosneft (Russia)
Royal Dutch Shell
Rumaila Field (Iraq)
Russia-Ukraine Oil Dispute (1991– )
Sadat, Anwar (1918–1981)
Samotlor Field (Russia)
Santa Barbara (California) Oil Spill (1969)
Saudi Aramco
Sea Empress (South Wales, 1996)
Sea Star (Gulf of Oman, 1972)
Seven Sisters
Simmons, Matthew (1943–2010)
Sonatrach (Algeria)
Spindletop Gusher (1901)
Standard Oil Company
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Suez Canal (Egypt)
Suez Canal Crisis (1956)
Sugar Loaf Field (Brazil)
Taghiyev, Zeynalabdin (c. 1822–1924)
Tarbell, Ida (1857–1944)
Teapot Dome Scandal (1924)
Texaco
Venezuela, National Strikes in (2003)
Volume 2: Countries
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Australia
Austria (Republik Österreich)
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Belarus
Bolivia
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
Chad
Chile
China (The People’s Republic of China, PRC)
Colombia
Congo (Brazzaville)
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Finland
France
Gabon
Germany
Guatemala
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Libya
Lithuania
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Slovakia
South Korea (The Republic of Korea, ROK)
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan (The Republic of China, ROC)
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Selected Bibliography
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
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