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Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From wildcatters to visionaries, geopoliticians to geologists and capitalists to union organizers, few real-life dramas feature such colorful characters, fluctuating fortunes, and worldwide high stakes as the story of oil. Petroleum was used by the ancients to waterproof Noah's Ark and fuel the lamps of the Temple of Jupiter. But it was in Pennsylvania in 1853 that the first oil well was dug, and an industry born. With the mass production of the...
2) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
4) Extreme oil
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Portrays the challenges that face the oil industries and the consumers of the infinite products of oil. "The pipeline" follows the route of a pipeline linking the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and thus the global market. "The oil curse" contrasts the cases of Ecuador and western Africa, and looks at how the discovery of oil has affected the local population. "The wilderness" explores the tension between the world's desire for oil and existing...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The phenomenon of the show reaches its crowning conclusion in the astonishing ninth and final season. A lifelong, deadly secret stuns everyone, marriages, fortunes, and lives are shattered forever, and the war between the Carrington and Colby empires rages on to the very end. The glittering cast, the spectacular glamour, the jaw-dropping twists - they're all here with a shocking series climax.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The knives are out and so is the Carrington family backstabbing. After somehow surviving her bachelorette party in the third season finale, Fallon just wants to get married to Liam and have a nice, calm life. Those aren't two words usually associated with Carringtons.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Carrington family will face the unknown on all fronts. Dealing with the fallout from the startling second season finale, Fallon is surrounded by a host of rivals looking to destroy her, the most wicked of which is her own brother, Adam, who takes the idea of 'sibling rivalry' to a whole new level of crazy. At the same time, Fallon and Liam attempt to keep their romance sane, but secrets and skeletons from her closet will make that more difficult...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The phenomenon of the show reaches its crowning conclusion in the astonishing ninth and final season. A lifelong, deadly secret stuns everyone, marriages, fortunes and lives are shattered forever, and the war between the Carrington and Colby empires rages on to the very end. The glittering cast, the spectacular glamour, the jaw-dropping twists--they're all here with a shocking series climax.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling second season, it has been one month since the fire, and Fallon is reunited with Michael Culhane and ready to sell Carrington Atlantic to Liam's uncle, Max Van Kirk. But there is a problem--Max thinks Fallon is Liam's wife, so she has to pretend to be so and carry on the masquerade. Meanwhile, the authorities are searching for Hank Sullivan, who they consider a person of interest in Cristal's homicide and who is blackmailing Alexis...
15) Gashole
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Documented is the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. Included are interviews with a wide range of viewpoints from U.S. Department of Energy officials, congressional leaders, alternative fuel producers, alternative fuel consumers, and more. What are the causes that led America from being a leading exporter of oil to becoming the world's largest importer? Examined are many different potential solutions to the dependence on oil....
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first season, the powerhouse primetime 80s soap opera, begins with oil tycoon Blake Carrington marrying his former secretary, Krystle. Krystle's former lover, Matthew, returns to town and causes more problems when he tells Krystle that he's still in love with her. Blake's daughter Fallon does not support his marriage, and chooses to marry childhood friend Jeff Colby just for her father's benefit.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wealth, power, deception, and double-dealing... what does it take to build a dynasty? A modern re-imagining of the iconic primetime soap, centering on the powerful Carrington family as they defend their throne against the Colbys, new rivals and threats, and even each other.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the exploits of the Carringtons and Colbys, both 'oil rich' family dynasties in Denver, Colorado, as they accrue and manipulate power and wealth. Includes fifteen episodes, and features the debut of Emma Samms as Fallon, plus the shocking cliffhanger of the royal wedding massacre!
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
J.R. Ewing takes his last breath under very suspicious circumstances but not before stirring up a season's worth of Texas-size trouble. J.R. deviously guides his son, John Ross, in stealing the family business from Christopher and Bobby, while the ladies take their own sides. It's a season of must-see drama. J.R. and his Stetson are laid to rest, he's still calling the shots; bequeathing a legacy he calls his 'masterpiece,' which leaves the normally...
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