Silverstein Ken - The Secret World Of Oil - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it like Exxon Mobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers gangsters dictators competing governments and multinational corporations and until now no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers that's tripled during the past decade moves approximately 2 billion metric tons of oil annually. And every stage of the route from discovery to consumption is tainted by corruption and violence even if little of that is visible to the public. Based on trips to New York Washington Houston London Paris Geneva Phnom Penh Dakar Lagos Baku and Moscow among other far - flung locals The Secret World of Oil includes up - close portraits of a shadowy Baku - based trader; a high - flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his eleven luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.
Title: The Secret World Of Oil
Author(s): Silverstein Ken
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781688670
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/5/2015
Category: Petroleum & Oil Industries