Authors:Joseph A. Pratt, Tyler Priest, Christopher J. Castan
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: offshore, oil, gas, history, amp, pioneers, brown, root
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1997-11-17
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0884151387
ISBN-13: 9780884151388
Fifty years ago, in November 1947, Brown & Root helped Kerr-McGee build the first out-of-sight-land offshore platform that produced oil. The date is widely celebrated as the birth of the modern offshore industry. In the years since this historic occasion, Brown & Root has continued to pioneer in the design and construction of offshore pipelines and platforms. Along with the rest of the offshore industry, the company has helped develop technology capable of finding and producing oil in deepwater and in harsh environments around the world. This history puts a human face on the proces
Author: James Laurence Pelletier
Publisher: Marine Techniques
Keywords: offshore, oil, mariner, directory, amp, guide, managers, owners, platforms, rigs, support, vessels, operators
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0964491540
ISBN-13: 9780964491540
215 pages, 2,042 plus companies listed. Submersible Drilling Barges, Semi-submersible Drilling Rigs, Drilling Ships, Self-elevating Platforms, Self-elevating Drilling Rigs, Pontoons, Sheerleg Pontoons, Offshore Pipelines, Atmospheric Diving Suits, Diving Complexes, Diving Bells, Deck Compression Chambers, Hyperbaric Rescue Vessels, etc., Supply Vessels (ORSV), Special Service Vessels, Tug/Supply Vessels (ORSV), Specialized Cargo Vessels, Research Vessels, Ferry Vessels, Landing Vessels, Bulk Carrier Vessels, Crude Oil Tankers and Tankers (unspecified), For Exploration & Pr
Author: John B. Herbich John B. Herbich Ph.D. P.E. is W
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Keywords: offshore, engineering, coastal, amp, ocean, handbook, phenomena, wave, developments, topics
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0884153800
ISBN-13: 9780884153801
Drawing from experts and top researchers from around the world, this book presents current developments in a variety of areas that impact offshore and ocean engineering.
Author: Ed Mapes
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: offshore, further
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1574092537
ISBN-13: 9781574092530
This practical guide to offshore sailing will appeal to all those sailors who have honed their skills as day sailors, racers and coastal sailors and are now planning to go further and become bluewater sailors. Ed Mapes has distilled his years of sailing and sail training experience in this book. He takes us from practical and psychological preparation to equipping your boat, navigation skills, heavy weather, eventual landfall and dozens of other topics. By taking you further offshore with skill and confidence this book will get you closer to the bluewater cruise of a lifetime.
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: offshore
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1998-04-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0395478049
ISBN-13: 9780395478042
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there’s Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.
Author: Hilton McCa
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: finance, offshore
Number of Pages: 564
Published: 2009-11-19
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521123593
ISBN-13: 9780521123594
This book was first published in 2006. It is estimated that up to sixty percent of the world’s money may be located offshore, where half of all financial transactions are said to take place; however, there is a perception that secrecy about offshore is encouraged to obfuscate tax evasion and money laundering. McCann provides a detailed analysis of the global offshore environment, outlining the extent of the information available and how that information might be used in assessing the quality of individual jurisdictions, as well as examining whether some of the perceptions about ’of
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: pirate, offshore
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419175971
ISBN-13: 9781419175978
From time to time there was the bright flare of a match as one of them lighted a cigarette, but except for the low undertone of the throbbing engines and the even wash of the waves about the stern the yacht was quiet as a dream boat star-bound through the heavens. Round them flowed the smell of the night sea, bringing with it an infinite languor.
