The Petroleum Gulf: The Discovery and Development of Offshore Oil in the United Arab Emirates, Hardcover Book, By: Michael Quentin Morton

Many accounts of oil histories tend to deal with the offshore exploration in a few paragraphs, focusing on the onshore oil discoveries instead. And yet, although the offshore industry faced greater risks and expense, its achievements are equal, or even surpass, those of the onshore industry - no less so than in the Arabian Gulf where two of the offshore oilfields discovered in Emirati waters are among the largest in the world.