Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. Oil Talk 1
5. Part I. Oil as a Way of Life
6. Chapter 1. Oil For Life 31
7. Chapter 2. Velocity and Viscosity 45
8. Chapter 3. Deep Oil and Deep Culture in the Russian Urals 61
9. Chapter 4. Oil, Masculinity, and Violence 72
10. Part II. The Oil Archive, Expertise, and Strategic Knowledges
11. Chapter 5. The Oil Archives 95
12. Chapter 6. Securing the Natural Gas Boom 108
13. Chapter 7. Crude Contamination 126
14. Chapter 8. The Image World of Middle Eastern Oil 147
15. Photo Essay. Specters Of Oil. 165
16. Part III. Oil Markets.
17. Chapter 9. Near Futures and Perfect Hedges in the Gulf of Mexico 193
18. Chapter 10. Securing Oil. 211
19. Chapter 11. Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion. 237
20. Part IV. Hard and Soft Infrastructures
21. Chapter 12. Offshore Work. 257
22. Chapter 13. Black Oil Business. 274
23. Chapter 14. The Political Economy Of Oil Privatization In Post-Soviet Kazakhstan 291
24. Part V. Oil Futures And Oil Transitions
25. Chapter 15. Carbon, Convertibility, And The Technopolitics of Oil. 309
26. Chapter 16. Events Collectives. The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle 325
27. Chapter 17. Reserves, Secrecy, and the Science of Oil Prognostication in Southern Arabia 340
28. Chapter 18. Vicious Transparency. 354
29. References 371
30. Index 409