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Petroleum Industry Books
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The Image Maker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.92 — 59 ratings — published
The Petroleum Dictionary (Classic Reprint)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Electing To Murder (McRyan Mystery, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,250 ratings — published 2013
Where There's Smoke (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,523 ratings — published 1993
Fire On The Horizon: The Untold Story Of The Gulf Oil Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.15 — 594 ratings — published 2011
The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and Finance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.16 — 80 ratings — published 2011
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as petroleum-industry)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,270 ratings — published 2009
“Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is.” He took the Heinz ketchup bottle from the condiment holder. “That’s the thing: Most people don’t understand this. The ingredients, what it goes on, where the energy comes from to create it, the ways the world’s gotta be directed and coaxed and violated and controlled to get this one little fucked bottle. And once you see how ketchup relates to imperial maintenance it’s tough to not get an overwhelmed quality to your thinking. Like one of them Magic Eye thingamajobs—hard the first time, but once you get it, you’ll never unsee it.”
― The Deluge
― The Deluge
“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a dielectric to separate the two. Refuse oil poured in came out as oil of the highest grade, dry chemicals, and drinking water. Petroleum Rectifying Company successfully prohibited its use.”
― M: Writings '67–'72
― M: Writings '67–'72
