Subjects:  1. Drilling fluids    2. Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Gas drilling (Petroleum engine    3. Gas drilling (Petroleum engineering)    4. Gas engineering    5. General    6. Mining    7. Natural Gas Drilling    8. Petroleum    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Gas technology    13. Technology / Petroleum   

Subjects:  1. Petroleum    2. Petroleum Drilling    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology   

Subjects:  1. Construction - General    2. Petroleum Drilling    3. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology    2. Environmental conditions    3. Marine meteorology    4. Mining    5. Offshore gas well drilling    6. Offshore oil well drilling    7. Safety measures    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Drilling and boring machinery    2. Elementos De Maquinas   

Subjects:  1. Norway    2. Offshore oil well drilling    3. Petroleum Industries (Economic Aspects)   

Subjects:  1. Hand-railing    2. Industrial Health & Safety    3. Oil well drilling rigs    4. Petroleum    5. Petroleum Drilling    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Specifications    8. Stairs    9. Standards    10. Technology   

Subjects:  1. Continental shelf    2. Offshore oil industry    3. Oil well drilling, Submarine    4. Safety measures    5. Safety regulations    6. United States   

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A riveting true story - the stuff of which legends are made!
In Blowout, Bob Orrell recounts the dramas of life on board "Hewett A", a North Sea oil and gas drilling rig. Life on an oil rig is arduous, brutal, highly dangerous. But the men who work there persevere with humor and camaraderie despite the appalling accidents, atrociousweather, and occasional clashes of temper. In Blowout, Orrell's rigsuffered a disastrous bowout and he gives a vivid, harrowing account of howrescue boats and helicopters battled gale-force winds and raging seas toevacuate men from the gas-filled platform. There was a tremendous loss oflife and Orrell found himself abandoned with only one colleague on the gasand oil spewing rig. When Red Adair (the legendary Texan oil rigfirefighter) returned to the rig to cap the well, Orrell was there to manthe communications equipment. Blowout is a riveting true story, the stuffof which legends are made. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anecdotes    2. Blowouts    3. Drilling platforms    4. Great Britain    5. Mining    6. North Sea    7. Oil wells    8. Personal narratives    9. Radio operators    10. Sports    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Career in submarine oil well drilling    13. Orrell, Robert    14. True Stories   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - General    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Hydrogeology    4. Mine subsidences    5. Oil fields    6. Petroleum    7. Petroleum Drilling    8. Petroleum Geology    9. Production methods    10. Science    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Subsidences (Earth movements)    13. Technology & Industrial Arts    14. Petroleum technology    15. Science / Geology   

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    4. General    5. Nanotechnology    6. Ocean engineering    7. Offshore Exploration And Drilling    8. Remote submersibles    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Submarine Geology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Science / Geology    14. Science-Earth Sciences - Geology    15. Science-Earth Sciences - Oceanography    16. Technology / Nanotechnology   

Subjects:  1. Offshore oil well drilling    2. Oil wells    3. Petroleum Drilling   

Subjects:  1. Directional drilling    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Drilling    5. Power Resources    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Petroleum technology    10. Science / Geology    11. Science-Earth Sciences - Geology    12. Technology / Petroleum    13. Technology-Power Resources   

Subjects:  1. Blowouts    2. Oil wells    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Drilling    5. Reference    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Fire protection & safety    10. Fossil fuel technologies   

Subjects:  1. Anchors    2. Marine Engineering (Specific Aspects)    3. Offshore structures    4. Petroleum Drilling   

Subjects:  1. Oil well drilling    2. Oil well drilling rigs    3. Petroleum    4. Petroleum Drilling    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology   

Subjects:  1. COM017000