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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin 9781847376466
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.83The struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades continues to shake the world economy, dictate the outcome of wars, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prizeis as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil... -
This Is Not A Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield Paul Carter 9781857885637
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another... -
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593420416Author Alex EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Fire Safety in Residential Property: A Practical Approach for Environmental Health by Richard Lord 9780367617868
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.88This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of... -
Oil: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil 9781786072863
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise. Humanity's dependence upon oil looks set to continue for decades to come, but what is it?... -
Oil 101 by Morgan Patrick Downey 9780982039205
Booksplease Price: £23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982039205Author Morgan Patrick DowneyFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Wooden Table Press LLCPublisher Wooden Table Press LLCWeight(grams)... -
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) by Paul Carter
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He... -
Handbook of Liquefied Natural Gas by Saeid Mokhatab 9780128099964
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £62.58Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues... -
Moral Case For Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847441Author Alex EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 446gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm *... -
Shale Oil and Gas: The Promise and the Peril, Revised and Updated Second Edition by Vikram Rao 9781934831076
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934831076Author Vikram RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Rti International / Rti PressPublisher Rti International / Rti PressWeight(grams)... -
Challenged by Carbon: The Oil Industry and Climate Change by Bryan Lovell 9780521145596
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.40Is there a low-carbon future for the oil industry? Faced with compelling new geological evidence, the petroleum industry can no longer ignore the consequences of climate change brought on by consumption of its products. Yet the global community will... -
Fossil Fuel Hydrogen: Technical, Economic and Environmental Potential by William J. Nuttall 9783030309077
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.99As the case for Climate Change mitigation becomes ever more pressing, hydrogen has the potential to play a major role in a low-carbon energy future. Hydrogen can drive the vehicles of tomorrow and also heat homes and supply energy to businesses. Much... -
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It by Genevieve Guenther 9780197642238
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.37A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. In an illuminating... -
Carbon Capture and Storage by Stephen A. Rackley 9780128120415
RRP: £137.00Booksplease Price: £124.55Carbon Capture and Storage, Second Edition, provides a thorough, non-specialist introduction to technologies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels during power generation and other energy-intensive industrial processes,... -
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.72An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this... -
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War Keith Fisher 9780141999630
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.69'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an... -
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Steve Coll 9780718194475
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.72From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US... -
Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation James Marriott 9780745341095
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.30'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling... -
The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests by James Johnson Butler, Jr.
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £99.56The slug test can provide valuable information for hydrogeologic investigations ranging from assessments of sites of groundwater contamination to the monitoring of well deterioration through time. Inappropriate procedures in one or more phases of a test... -
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.91The history of climate change research - how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may be our saviour, and how renewable energy is far from a 20th-century discovery. Did you know the link between carbon... -
THE LAST OF THE WELSH COAL TRAINS: The Railways and Industry Series, Volume 2 by Chris Davies
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the last three decades, until recently, coal was still a vital energy source for the nation's power stations. During 2013 and 2014, coal accounted for 36 per cent of all UK rail freight, but... -
Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering: Volume 8 by L. P. Dake 9780444418302
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £49.57"This book is fast becoming the standard text in its field", wrote a reviewer in the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology soon after the first appearance of Dake's book. This prediction quickly came true: it has become the standard text and has been... -
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.76A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the YearWinner of the Shulman Book PrizeA noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe's geopolitical rivalries, natural gas and deals based on it unite Europe's nations in mutual self-interest.Three... -
Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids by Karen Schou Pedersen 9781138313811
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £114.60Developed in conjunction with several oil companies using experimental data for real reservoir fluids, Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids introduces industry standard methods for modeling the phase behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids at... -
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 by Eliza Griswold
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the... -
Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg 9781905570003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you eat? What would everyday life be like? The world is about to change dramatically and permanently as a result of oil depletion. Within the next few years, the global production of oil... -
Petroleum Refining: Technology, Economics, and Markets, Sixth Edition Mark J. Kaiser (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA) 9781466563001
RRP: £90.99Booksplease Price: £82.19For four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through the years has become the standard text in many schools and universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes,... -
Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum by Michael Wallis 9780806146768
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.62This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the... -
Physics and Mechanics of Primary Well Cementing by Alexandre Lavrov 9783319431642
Booksplease Price: £50.80This book covers the major physical and mechanical processes that unfold during cementing and subsequent well service, and which can affect the well integrity. Focusing on the underlying physics, it concisely presents the central concepts of well... -
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116820Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm -
Subsea Rock Installation and Rock Placement: A Guide for Offshore Operators by Robert Eadie 9781849954549
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.74Based upon the author's wide experience in a broad range of projects, this invaluable book sets the scene and places rock installation in the context of the offshore industry today. This is an industry where health, safety and environmental... -
LNG: Fuel for a Changing World - A Nontechnical Guide by Michael D. Tusiani 9781593703691
Booksplease Price: £91.34In this updated and revised second edition, authors Michael Tusiani and Gordon Shearer build upon the knowledge contained in their comprehensive and valuable reference LNG: A Nontechnical Guide.The book uses everyday language and real-world examples to... -
Surface Production Operations: Vol 2: Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities by Maurice Stewart 9780123822079
RRP: £132.00Booksplease Price: £120.14Updated and better than ever, Design of Gas-Handling Systems and Facilities, 3rd Edition includes greatly expanded chapters on gas-liquid separation, gas sweetening, gas liquefaction, and gas dehydration -information necessary and critical to production... -
Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design by 9780128159033
RRP: £106.00Booksplease Price: £95.00Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and... -
Borehole Acoustic Logging – Theory and Methods by Hua Wang 9783030514228
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £121.38This book covers the principles, historical development, and applications of many acoustic logging methods, including acoustic logging-while-drilling and cased-hole logging methods. Benefiting from the rapid development of information technology,... -
Unconventional Shale Resources: Advances in Energy Transition Cenk Temizel 9781032322933
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £123.90The oil and gas sector is a vital player in the energy transition. With their vast resource potential, unconventional shale plays will be an essential part in enabling this change. Unconventional Shale Resources serves as a comprehensive reference... -
Polymer and Ceramic Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices, Two-Volume Set by Prasanth Raghavan 9780367683306
RRP: £88.99Booksplease Price: £78.13Polymer and Ceramic Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices features two volumes that focus on the most recent technological and scientific accomplishments in polymer, ceramic, and specialty electrolytes and their applications in lithium-ion batteries... -
Catalytic Processes for the Production of Automotive Gasoline Heriberto Diaz Velazquez 9781032844350
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £122.30This book serves as the most comprehensive and advanced resource available on catalytic processes to produce automotive gasoline. It discusses enhancers and emerging technologies such as the obtention of gasoline from biomass, gasoline from carbon... -
Nanomaterials for Environmental Application: Fuel Additives for Diesel Engines by Tina Kegl 9783030547073
Booksplease Price: £111.24This book explores the use of nanomaterials as diesel fuel additives. It extensively reviews the diesel engine characteristics and the most frequently used nanomaterials and nanofuels and discusses the practical issues regarding the viability of... -
Energy Efficient Solvents for CO2 Capture by Gas-Liquid Absorption: Compounds, Blends and Advanced Solvent Systems by Wojciech M. Budzianowski 9783319836942
Booksplease Price: £111.24This book reviews and characterises promising single-compound solvents, solvent blends and advanced solvent systems suitable for CO2 capture applications using gas-liquid absorption.Focusing on energy efficient solvents with minimal adverse environmental...