Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
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[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
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Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran Washington Post writer Tom Shroder give the definitive, white-knuckled account of the Deepwater Horizon explosion-as well as a riveting insider's view of the byzantine culture of offshore drilling that made the disaster inevitable. As the world continues to cope with the oil spill's grim aftermath-with environmental and economic consequences all the more dire in a region still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina-Konrad and Schroder's real-time account of the disaster shows us just where things went wrong, and points the way to a safer future for us all.

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Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran Washington Post writer Tom Shroder give the definitive, white-knuckled account of the Deepwater Horizon explosion-as well as a riveting insider's view of the byzantine culture of offshore drilling that made the disaster inevitable. As the world continues to cope with the oil spill's grim aftermath-with environmental and economic consequences all the more dire in a region still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina-Konrad and Schroder's real-time account of the disaster shows us just where things went wrong, and points the way to a safer future for us all.
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Konrad, J. (2011). Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster. [United States], HarperCollins Publishers.

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Konrad, John. 2011. Fire On the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster. [United States], HarperCollins Publishers.

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Konrad, John, Fire On the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster. [United States], HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.

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Konrad, John. Fire On the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster. [United States], HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.

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