The Oil Man

Author : Arno Kopecky
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771001083

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The Oil Man and the Sea by Arno Kopecky Pdf

A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction. With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British Columbia down the wild Pacific Coast. This region is home to the largest tract of temperate rainforest on earth, First Nations who have lived there for millennia, and some of the world’s most biodiverse waters—one spill is all it will take to erase ten thousand years of evolution. Arno Kopecky and his companions travel aboard a forty-one-foot sailboat exploring the pristine route—a profoundly volatile marine environment that registered 1,275 marine vessel incidents—mechanical failures, collisions, explosions, groundings, and sinkings—between 1999 and 2009 alone. Neither Kopecky nor the boat’s owner have ever sailed before, yet they brave these waters alone when their captain leaves them part way through the journey. Written with Kopecky’s quick humor and deft touch, this is a rich evocation of a mythic place and the ecology, culture, and history of a legendary region with a knife at its throat.

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806146973

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Oil Man by Michael Wallis Pdf

This 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 twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.

Author : R. W. WHITTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024533574

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The Oil-Man's Vade-Mecum; Or, Useful Assistant, Shewing ... the Value of a Tun of Fish Or Seed Oil, at Any Price Per Gallon, Etc by R. W. WHITTON Pdf

Author : John Munonye
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066683361

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Oil Man of Obange by John Munonye Pdf

The main character of this book is subjected to a grinding series of tragedies which gradually break this small man. By the author of The Only Son and Bridge to a Wedding.

Author : John Joseph Mathews
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806112387

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Life and Death of an Oilman by John Joseph Mathews Pdf

Located in the Oklahoma Collection.

Author : Leon Puissegur
Publisher : Savant Books and Publications
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983286158

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The Oil Man by Leon Puissegur Pdf

Avid conspiracy theorist John Marx, supervisor on an oil derrick in the Gulf of Mexico, comes into possession of an email and box that changes first his, then the world's point of view about oil. It all comes down to not who controls the world's petroleum supply, but who people, corporations and governments think control it. Tempers explode, guns flare, people die, all due to an email and a shard of crystal.

Author : John Masters,Paul Grescoe
Publisher : Calgary : Gondolier
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1896209971

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Secret Riches by John Masters,Paul Grescoe Pdf

A riveting account of an entrepreneur's hard--won lessons.

Author : Arne Nielsen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780888648075

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We Gambled Everything by Arne Nielsen Pdf

"We gambled everything-our careers, our fortunes, the future of our nation-and every day brought new discoveries. It was like living on a frontier."-Arne Nielsen The memoir of Canadian petroleum industry leader Arne Nielsen is not a conventional business biography. During his six decades in the business, he witnessed critical events in the oil industry that influenced Canada's economic history. From rain-soaked tents on the Arctic barren land to the luxurious New York offices of a multinational oil company, Arne Nielsen's expansive knowledge of geology and the oil industry made him one of the most influential and well-known figures of his time. His memoir provides crucial details and unique perspectives on events that will be of interest to the next generation of oil industry executives as well as to consumers, economists, and ecologists.

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143116820

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The Big Rich by Bryan Burrough Pdf

“Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons—a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” —Publishers Weekly “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?” —The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.

Author : Michael Sheldon Cheney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : UOM:39015065443825

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Big Oil Man from Arabia by Michael Sheldon Cheney Pdf

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101201763

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Oil! by Upton Sinclair Pdf

The classic novel that inspired the Academy award-winning film, There Will Be Blood. Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnets, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair’s “most readable” novel, is now the inspiration for the Paramount Vantage major motion picture, There Will Be Blood. It is the long-awaited film from Paul Thomas Anderson, one of the most admired filmmakers working today whose previous movies, Boogie Nights and Magnolia were both multiple Academy Award nominees. The movie stars Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, My Left Foot) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine). Paramount Vantage will be releasing the film in New York and Los Angeles on December 26, 2007 and go nationwide in January. This is the same company responsible for Babel and A Mighty Heart and the current releases, Into the Wild, Margot at the Wedding, and The Kite Runner. As wars rage on in the oil region and as anxiety over natural resources rise, the subject of this book, which celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2007, is more timely than ever.

Author : Jonathan Conlin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782834441

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Mr Five Per Cent by Jonathan Conlin Pdf

Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a labyrinth of Asian and European cartels, and convincing governments and oil barons alike of his impartiality as an 'honest broker'. Today his name is known principally through the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, to which his spectacular art collection and most of his vast wealth were bequeathed. Gulbenkian's private life was as labyrinthine as his business dealings. He insisted on the highest 'moral values', yet ruthlessly used his wife's charm as a hostess to further his career, and demanded complete obedience from his family, whom he monitored obsessively. As a young man he lived a champagne lifestyle, escorting actresses and showgirls, and in later life - on doctor's orders - he slept with a succession of discreetly provided young women. Meanwhile he built up a superb art collection which included Rembrandts and other treasures sold to him by Stalin from the Hermitage Museum. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, Mr Five Per Cent reveals Gulbenkian's complex and many-sided existence. Written with full access to the Gulbenkian Foundation's archives, this is the fascinating story of the man who more than anyone else helped shape the modern oil industry.

Author : John Moretta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : UVA:X004415101

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William Pitt Ballinger by John Moretta Pdf

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393342185

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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd by Michael Wallis Pdf

"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

Author : Daniel Ammann
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031265068X

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The King of Oil by Daniel Ammann Pdf

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally. This sure-to-make-headlines book is the first no-holds-barred biography of Rich, who was famously pardoned by Bill Clinton, and resurfaced in the news during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Eric Holder. The King of Oil sheds stunning new light on one of the most controversial international businessmen of all time.