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Author Matsen, Bradford.

Title Death and oil : a true story of the Piper Alpha disaster on the North Sea / Brad Matsen.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.1196 MATSEN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.738 MA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Autumn 1988 -- Caddy shack -- Pumping money -- The divers -- Silver pit -- Oxy and the doctor -- Piper Alpha -- The granite city -- Piper Alpha -- The divers -- Aberdeen -- The galley -- Tharos -- Escape -- Hell -- Night -- Tharos -- The morning news -- Hellfighter -- Sadness -- Rage.
Subject Offshore oil well drilling -- Accidents -- North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
Oil well drilling rigs -- North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
Oil wells -- North Sea -- Blowouts -- History -- 20th century.
Explosions -- North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
Disasters -- North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
Aberdeen (Scotland) -- History -- 20th century.
Disaster victims -- North Sea -- Biography.
Survival -- North Sea -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780307378811
0307378810
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