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'A gripping and convincing account of the turbulent story of the global oil industry over the past decade…scorchingly topical…’The Squeeze’ provides the fascinating story behind the headlines…a first-rate account of where the oil industry is now and some useful pointers as to where it is going' Financial Times
'Reveals brilliantly the drama behind the scenes…Bower has produced a work which will be popular and which gets the broad brushstrokes right' Spectator
'Gripping…However fast-paced, Bower cleverly keeps the action in focus …(he) builds up a brilliant picture…(and) achieves an impressively seamless continuity. He skillfully depicts accountants squeezing costs, oil majors squeezing rivals, governments squeezing the industry, directors squeezing peers from the boardroom and traders squeezing each other in the market place' TLS
'A shattering critique which will leave…readers angry' Independent
'A roller-coaster account of the past 30 years of the oil industry…he has a real sense of the drama of deal-making and deal-breaking…Bower is particularly entertaining on the vast Russian oil industry' Daily Telegraph
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'A gripping and convincing account of the turbulent story of the global oil industry over the past decade!scorchingly topical!'The Squeeze' provides the fascinating story behind the headlines!a first-rate account of where the oil industry is now and some useful pointers as to where it is going' Financial Times 'Reveals brilliantly the drama behind the scenes!Bower has produced a work which will be popular and which gets the broad brushstrokes right' Spectator 'Gripping!However fast-paced, Bower cleverly keeps the action in focus !(he) builds up a brilliant picture!(and) achieves an impressively seamless continuity. He skillfully depicts accountants squeezing costs, oil majors squeezing rivals, governments squeezing the industry, directors squeezing peers from the boardroom and traders squeezing each other in the market place' TLS 'A shattering critique which will leave!readers angry' Independent 'A roller-coaster account of the past 30 years of the oil industry!he has a real sense of the drama of deal-making and deal-breaking!Bower is particularly entertaining on the vast Russian oil industry' Daily Telegraph
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Saw a pre release review for this book and bought it as soon as it came out and did read it cover to cover in three days. The book covers the later period of my career in upstream oil and gas business during which I have met some of the book's central characters.
After the first twenty pages I found my increasing annoyance had turned into my correcting numerical errors in the text; where millions and billions are often mixed up or where countries are transposed with field names and so on. A proof read of the book by someone with a technical background could easily have removed these annoying errors.
But those faults did not detract from the flow of the book although I was left wondering if the non numerical statements and conclusions were sometimes as inaccurate as the numerical errors.
Nevertheless this is book is a great read for someone in or not in the world of oil and gas. The book does draw out the significant changes that have and continue to take place as the oil majors see the balance of commercial influence having all but entirely moved to the national oil companies and the trading floors.
After the first twenty pages I found my increasing annoyance had turned into my correcting numerical errors in the text; where millions and billions are often mixed up or where countries are transposed with field names and so on. A proof read of the book by someone with a technical background could easily have removed these annoying errors.
But those faults did not detract from the flow of the book although I was left wondering if the non numerical statements and conclusions were sometimes as inaccurate as the numerical errors.
Nevertheless this is book is a great read for someone in or not in the world of oil and gas. The book does draw out the significant changes that have and continue to take place as the oil majors see the balance of commercial influence having all but entirely moved to the national oil companies and the trading floors.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
good scope and plan for a book but every bit I knew about was filled with factual errors so confidence about the other bits has to be diminished. The errors were technical, historical and geographical and of the sort you'd expect a good editor to sort out. There were so many as to seriously detract from the enjoyment of the book and such that I couldn't recommend it
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am part way through this book and am really enjoying it. It is extremely accessible and informative and is a very easy read. It appears to be very well researched. The only downside is that it is poorly edited and contains quite a lot of errors that get more and more annoying as the book progresses. I would recommend this to anyone interested in understanding, at a high level, the recent history of Big Oil.
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brilliant book
I bought this book for my stepson, he was delighted with it because he is interested in the oil industry, he reckons it s a good read.
Published 4 months ago by J. Cliffson
Oil is black and dirty
Fascinating in depth story about the oil moguls from the big six who control the worlds oil markets. Read more
Published 7 months ago by See You Jimmy
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Having worked in the Oil industry all my life I was somewhat expecting a little more detail in the scenarios that Tom Bower set each time. I was left guessing as to why? Read more
Published 18 months ago by NGJ Keith
The oil business explained
This is a seriously good read if you are at all interested in the devious world of the oil kings. It actually reads like a good adventure story which, in reality, the oil business... Read more
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history of the oil industry
really impressed with Amazon.co.uk.. I received my book well before time and at a reasonable cost.. the packing was quite good and hence the hard bound copy was crisp new and... Read more
Published 24 months ago by H. R. Gayake
Big Oil
Tom Bower has written an incredibly well researched and fascinating book on the intrigues and complexities of "Big Oil"
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