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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as oil)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,799 ratings — published 1991
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,231 ratings — published 2011
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as oil)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,308 ratings — published 2012
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 456,450 ratings — published 2017
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as oil)
avg rating 4.15 — 38,580 ratings — published 1998
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as oil)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,878 ratings — published 2013
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as oil)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,859 ratings — published 2009
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as oil)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,002 ratings — published 2020
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as oil)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,309 ratings — published 2009
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,392 ratings — published 2021
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.72 — 249,416 ratings — published 2008
Oil: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.87 — 890 ratings — published 2008
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oil)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,159 ratings — published 2003
Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 3.81 — 910 ratings — published 2018
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 3.79 — 655 ratings — published 2005
The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 4.06 — 223 ratings — published 1975
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 3.84 — 197 ratings — published 2012
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 4.10 — 840 ratings — published 2011
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oil)
avg rating 4.03 — 751 ratings — published 2003
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.39 — 37,785 ratings — published 2022
Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.52 — 254 ratings — published 2015
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,461 ratings — published 2014
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.96 — 211 ratings — published 2012
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.78 — 789 ratings — published 2014
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 526 ratings — published 2009
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.75 — 442 ratings — published 2007
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,599 ratings — published 2005
Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oil)
avg rating 3.69 — 216 ratings — published 2009
Energy: A Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,957 ratings — published 2018
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,526 ratings — published 2020
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,965 ratings — published 2019
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.17 — 219 ratings — published
The Secret World of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.50 — 272 ratings — published 2014
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,001 ratings — published
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oil)
avg rating 3.87 — 286 ratings — published 2008
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,587 ratings — published 2022
America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.81 — 185 ratings — published 2006
Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language Third Edition (Pennwell Nontechnical Series)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.22 — 258 ratings — published 1979
The Global Oil & Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and Finance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.16 — 80 ratings — published 2011
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 4.14 — 684 ratings — published 2016
Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.96 — 242 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.76 — 458 ratings — published 2004
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oil)
avg rating 3.43 — 240 ratings — published 2005
“The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.”
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“You could not help being impressed by so much activity,
even though you knew it was the activity of Satan.”
― Oil!
even though you knew it was the activity of Satan.”
― Oil!
