An energy landscape emerges: early coastal oil and gas development -- Postwar pipelines span the coast: building the three hundred-mile Muskrat line -- Offshore expansion and environmental reform: the Blue Water pipeline system -- America's first offshore oil port: LOOP and the science of...

The Americanization of Shell Oil -- Testing the waters -- Betting on technology -- The trials and triumphs of exploration -- The end of business as usual -- The offshore imperative -- Deepwater treasures in a new era of oil