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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety." --
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she finds a job caring for Josef. Josef is a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers take on the case. Mounting evidence shows the death may have been murder, and they must race to discover the killer's identity before he finds them first"--Provided by publisher.
8) Ring of fire
Publisher
Sonar Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When an oil rig causes a volcanic eruption in a small town, it's just the first in a trigger effect called the Ring of Fire that stretches across the globe. If these cataclysmic series of eruptions cannot be stopped, the earth will be swallowed whole, leading to an extinction level event.
9) The rig
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
When oil rig worker Spence survives a plane crash off the coast of Madagascar, he slowly believes that the crash was no accident.
12) Louisiana story
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of a young Cajun boy living on the Bayou, tells the story of disruption and change when an oil rig brings industry into his pristine world.
14) Deep water
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig." --
15) Oil rig worker
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Describes why so many people choose to work in occupations that put their lives on the line.
16) Oil rigs
Author
Series
Publisher
Garrett Educational Corp
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Describes the construction and operation of an oil rig and the search for and discovery of petroleum.
17) The burning sea
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
"When an oil rig collapses in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, researchers begin to investigate and soon discover the possibility of an apocalyptic catastrophe."--
18) Sibiriada: poėma
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Russian
Description
Three generations of two families in a Siberian hamlet from 1900 to 1917, and the Russian Revolution to the '60s.
"An epic romantic drama about three generations of two feuding families, the rich Solomins and the poor Ustyuzhanins, of a rural Siberian village, from the time of the Russian Revolution to the exploration during the 1980's of hidden Siberian resources." --
