01907amm a2200397 i 450000100090000000300050000900500170001400700150003100800410004601000150008702000300010202000260013204000340015805000110019210000320020324501050023526400440034026400110038430000680039533600210046333700230048433800320050734700240053950400490056350504960061265000550110865000320116365000510119565000430124665000270128965000340131665000440135065500280139470000320142285600550145416892483UIAM20220701120607.0cr mn |||aucua220701t2012    nyua   gob d  001 0 eng c  a2011935227  a9781441976765 (paperback)  a9781441976772 (ebook)  aDLCbengcDLCdDLCdUIAMerda00aGC12211 aTainter, Joseph A.,eauthor10aDrilling down :bthe Gulf oil debacle and our energy dilemma /cJoseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek 1aNew York, NY :bCopernicus Books,c2012 4c©2012  a1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) :billustrations (some color)  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda  aIncludes bibliographic references and index.0 aIntroduction -- The significance of oil in the Gulf of Mexico -- The energy that runs the world -- Offshore drilling and production, a short history -- The energy-complexity spiral -- The benefits and costs of complexity -- What happened at the Macondo Well -- Why the Gulf disaster happened -- Our energy and complexity dilemma: prospects for the future -- Appendix A. Glossary -- Appendix B. Offshore Production -- Appendix C. Operating an offshore platform --  About the authors -- Index. 0aBP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 0aOil spillszMexico, Gulf of 0aDrilling platformsxAccidentszMexico, Gulf of 0aOffshore oil industryzMexico, Gulf of 0aEnergy policyxHistory 0aEnergy policyxSocial aspects 0aComplexity (Philosophy)xSocial aspects 7aElectronic books (Form)1 aPatzek, Tadeusz W.,eauthor41uhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-7677-2