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1) Deepwater Horizon

Pub. Date

[2017]

Formats

Book, DVD

Description

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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 United States history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.

2) The Investigator

Author

Sandford, John

Series

Letty Davenport novels volume 1
A Letty Davenport Novel volume 1

Formats

Book, CD, Large Print, Local Library Checkout Only

Description

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Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her...

3) Oil, black gold: What's all the fuss about?

Series

Rock talk volume 7, no. 2

Pub. Date

2004.

4) The oil shales of northwestern Colorado

Series

Bulletin volume no. 8

Pub. Date

1919.

5) Crude Impact

Pub. Date

p2009

Description

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An examination of the interconnection of human domination of the planet and the use of petroleum, and offers solutions for how we can stop our progression down this destructive path.

6) Casing and cement standards for geologic isolation Piceance Basin Brandenhead monitoring areas and nearby fields

Author

Andrews, David

Pub. Date

2016.

Description

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This report summarizes current and past Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) requirements in the Piceance Basin Bradenhead Monitoring Area (BMA) and nearby areas to the north and east; it outlines planned changes to requirements for cement isolation during primary cementing of casing strings, during remediation when bradenhead pressure or flow thresholds have been exceeded, and during plugging of wells. This report generally discusses...

7) How beautiful we were: a novel

Author

Mbue, Imbolo

Appears on list

Juneteenth - Adult Fiction

Formats

Book, CD, Local Library Checkout Only

Description

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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...

8) Oil shales of Colorado

Author

George, Russell D

Series

Bulletin volume 25

Pub. Date

1921.

9) Daily activity dashboard (DAD)

Author

Colorado. Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Pub. Date

2014-

Description

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A visual, interactive tool, the dashboard allows anyone to generate custom statistical charts, graphs, tables, and simple maps in near real-time. Further, because the information found in many of the tables has been linked to associated COGIS data (e.g. scout cards), users can easily drill down further. The dashboard does not replace the existing web-based data search tools (e.g. COGIS or eForms). It can, however, provide a more efficient pathway...

10) Executive order D 2018-12 Financial Assurance Technical Working Group final report

Author

Colorado. Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Financial Assurance Technical Working Group

Pub. Date

2018.

Description

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Governor Hickenlooper signed Executive Order D 2018-12 on July 18, 2018 to improve the environment, public health, and safety of Coloradans by directing the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission "COGCC" to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and sites and prevent future orphaned wells and sites. The Executive Order requires COGCC to establish a technical working group to review financial assurance requirements and report to the Governor...

11) Oil

Author

Winter, Jonah

Pub. Date

[2019]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Picture

Description

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"The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment"--

12) Colorado oil shale: the current status, October, 1979

Pub. Date

1979.

13) Some anticlines of western Colorado

Author

Coffin, R. C

Series

Bulletin volume 24

Pub. Date

1924.

14) Account of expenditures of 701 funds, December 1, 1971-May 31, 1972

Author

Oil Shale Regional Planning Commission (Colo.)

Pub. Date

[1972]

15) Petroleum hydrocarbon remediation in in-situ chemical oxidation at Colorado sites

Author

Colorado. Department of Labor and Employment. Division of Oil and Public Safety

Pub. Date

2007.

16) Creole belle: a Dave Robicheaux novel

Author

Burke, James Lee

Series

Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19

Formats

Book, CD, Large Print, Playaway

Description

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When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, Dave Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song on the iPod that she kindly left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of his Creole belle,...