1. Rod Lathim, The Spirit of the Big Yellow House (Santa Barbara: Emily Publications, 1995), pp. 33–47; William Leffler, Richard A. Pattaroizzi, and Gordon Sterling, Deepwater Exploration and Production: A Non-Technical Guide (Tulsa: Pennwell, 2011), ch. 1.

2. Peter Jackson, Jonathan Craig, Leta Smith, Samia Razak, and Simon Wardell, “Peak Oil Postponed Again: Liquids Production Capacity to 2030,” IHS CERA, 2010.

3. John S. Ezell, Innovations in Energy: The Story of Kerr-McGee (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), pp. 152–69.

4. Tyler Priest, The Off shore Imperative: Shell’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America (College Station: Texas A& M Press, 2007), p. 245.

5. James Burkhard, Pete Stark, and Leta Smith, “Oil Well Blowout and the Future of Deepwater E& P,” IHS CERA, 2010. In the late 1970s, deepwater was considered anything over six hundred feet. Today two thousand feet is a customary definition for the point at which deepwater begins.

6. New York Times, December 26, 2010, May 7, 2010, September 7, 2010, May 28, 2010; Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2010; BP, Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report, September 8, 2010; National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Off shore Drilling, Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Off shore Drilling, January 2011. Det Norske Veritas, Forensic Examination of Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventer, final report, Volume 1, March20, 2011.

7. Tony Hayward, speech, Cambridge Union Society, November 10, 2010 (“could not happen”).

8. U. S. Department of Interior, “Increased Safety Measures for Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf,” May 27, 2010, p. 6.

9. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, “Stopping the Spill: The Five-Month Effort to Kill the Macondo Well,” Staff Working Paper, number 6; Bloomberg, September 19, 2010.

10. Federal Interagency Solutions Group, Oil Budget Calculation: Deepwater Horizon; November 2010.

11. Terry Hazen et al., “Deep Sea Oil Plume Enriches Oil-Degrading Bacteria,” Science 330, no. 6001 (2010), pp. 204–8; New York Times, September 20, 2010.

12. Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2011.

13. Barack Obama, speech, Andrews Air Force Base, March31, 2010.

14. BP America, Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report, pp. 11, 32.

15. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Deepwater: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Off shore Drilling, ch. 4.

16. IHS Global Insight, The Economic Impact of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Natural Industry and the Role of the Independents, July 21, 2010, pp. 9–11.

17. Interview with José Sergio Gabriellide Azevedo (“had to go off shore”); Upstream Online, May 4, 2009 (Lula).

18. U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, “Overview on Global Energy Security Issues,” April 8, 2003.

19. IHS CERA, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply, Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue, April 2010.

20. Paul Chatsko, Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004), pp. 97–98 (“promising way”); Arthur M. Johnson, The Challenge of Change: The Sun Oil Company 1945–1977 (Columbus: Ohio State University, 1983), p. 131 (“enamored”); Peter McKenzie Brown, Gordon Jaremko and David Finch, The Great Oil Age (Calgary: Detselig, 1993), p. 75 (“important role”).

21. Chatsko, Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands, p. 218 (“single most important”); IHS CERA, Oil Sands Technology: Past, Present, and Future, Canadian Oil Sands Energy Dialogue, January 2011.

22. Energy Resources Conservation Board, “ERCB Conditionally Approves Tailings Plan for Shell Muskeg River Project,” press release, September 20, 2010.

23. Interview (“addiction”).

24. IHS CERA, Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and US Oil Supply: Getting the Numbers Right, Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue, September 2010.

25. U. S. Geological Service Survey, “An Estimate of Recoverable Oil Resources of the Orinoco Oil Belt,” October 2009; Associated Press, May 2, 2007 (“bosses made us come”); Reuters, May 2, 2007; Houston Chronicle, May 5, 2007 (“our bosses”); EFE news service, May 1, 2007; Financial Times, May 1, 2007.

26. Guy Elliott Mitchell, “Billions of Barrels Locked Up in Rocks,” National Geographic, February 1918, p. 201; Washington Post, June 16, 1979 (“doing without”).

27. Leta Smith, Sang-Won Kim, Pete Stark, and Rick Chamberlain, “The Shale Gale Goes Oily,” IHS CERA, 2011.

28. Interview with John Hess.

29. Peter Jackson, Jonathan Craig, Leta Smith, Samia Razak, and Simon Wardell, “‘Peak Oil’ Postponed Again: Liquids Production Capacity to 2030,” IHS CERA, 2010.