Breaking ice for Arctic oil : the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage / Ross Coen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coen, Ross Allen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manhattan (Tanker)--History.

Manhattan (Tanker).

Petroleum--Transportation--Alaska.

Petroleum.

Tankers--United States--History.

Tankers.

Oil fields--Alaska.

Oil fields.

Northwest Passage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully navigated the Northwest Passage-closing a five-hundred-year chapter of Arctic exploration by becoming.

Contents:

Strike at Prudhoe Bay State no. 1

No cream puff

Submarines, blimps, trains, and ships

"Bienvenu dans ces eaux. Welcome to Canadian waters"

A floating laboratory

In the passage

Through the passage

What did the Manhattan prove?

Roundtrip

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.

ISBN:

1-60223-170-2

OCLC:

793418637