Tom Bower
The Squeeze
Издательство: An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009 г.
978-0-00727654-7, 978-0-00-732942-7
Книгопечатная продукция
Объем: 416 стр.
In a ground-breaking new study of the global oil industry, investigative journalist Tom Bower takes us behind the headlines to present the human drama of the increasingly desperate quest for `black gold`. He reveals the crushing rivalries between men and women driven by ambition, vanity and greed to explore for oil five miles beneath the sea bed, battle for control of the world`s mega-oil corporations - BP, Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron - and gamble billions of dollars every day on oil prices. Success or failure for these extraordinary individuals depends on squeezing their rivals and squeezing the crude out of the rocks.
Exploiting unprecedented access to the lives of irrepressible traders in New York, oil-oligarchs in Moscow, corporate chieftains in Dallas and London, and wily politicians floating in jets across the globe, Bower tells the untold story of one of the most important quandaries of our times: why, if there is plentiful oil in the earth, do we face a dire shortage threatening all our lives? Self-interest is propelling the squeeze and there seems to be no salvation.
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