North Sea Oil by Victor Gibson - ISBN: 9781398126893
Hardcover
Frigid seas, daring feats, and a hidden race for energy.

North Sea Oil

A History - Sixty Years of Triumph and Tragedy

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  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2025

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Summary

Charting the development of the North Sea Oil business from the early days, when oil companies hired seismic ships to go out and use dynamite to try to determine whether there was any oil out there, to the modern day, this is a fascinating history of oil and gas exploration, development and production in the North Sea. This was a drama enacted out of sight of land, in the freezing waters of one of the world’s most hostile seas. All the major oil companies wanted to get in on the act, as well …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398126893
ISBN-10:1398126896
Author:Victor Gibson
Publisher:Amberley Publishing
Imprint:Amberley Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:15 July 2025
Weight:614g
Dimensions:39mm x 244mm x 166mm
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Critics Review

‘It is a tale of grit, endurance and extraordinary technical innovation, as well as distress when things have gone wrong and lives have been lost.’ * Tugs and Towing News, August 2025 *‘A superb book that brings the story of the industry to a wider audience and makes the invisible visible.’ * Undiscovered Scotland, August 2025 *

About The Author

Victor Gibson

Victor Gibson is a former master mariner who commanded offshore vessels working in the North Sea between 1975 and 1986. He wrote a guide for shipmasters involved in the offshore industry, Supply Ship Operations, published by Butterworth Heinemann, and subsequently compiled technical documentation for a number of drilling rig owners, as well as contributing articles to specialist journals and acting as a marine representative for rig moves.

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