Studies in Early Petroleum History
Author : Robert James Forbes
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Petroleum
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Forbes
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Petroleum
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Forbes
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : R. J. Forbes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Forbes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1958-12
Category : History
ISBN : 900461978X
Author : Forbes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1959-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004612602
Author : R. J. Forbes
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Petroleum
ISBN :
Author : J. Craig
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786203634
The history of the European oil and gas industry reflects local as well as global political events, economic constraints and the personal endeavours of individual petroleum geoscientists as much as it does the development of technologies and the underlying geology of the region. The first commercial oil wells in Europe were drilled in Poland in 1853, Romania in 1857, Germany in 1859 and Italy in 1860. The 23 papers in this volume focus on the history and heritage of the oil and gas industry in the key European oil-producing countries from the earliest onshore drilling to its development into the modern industry that we know today. The contributors chronicle the main events and some of the major players that shaped the industry in Europe. The volume also marks several important anniversaries, including 150 years of oil exploration in Poland and Romania, the centenary of the drilling of the first oil well in the UK and 50 years of oil production from onshore Spain.
Author : Brian Frehner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803234864
Oil has made fortunes, caused wars, and shaped nations. Accordingly, no one questions the idea that the quest for oil is a quest for power. The question we should ask, Finding Oil suggests, is what kind of power prospectors have wanted. This book revises oil?s early history by exploring the incredibly varied stories of the men who pitted themselves against nature to unleash the power of oil. Brian Frehner shows how, despite the towering presence of a figure like John D. Rockefeller as a quintessential ?oil man,? prospectors were a diverse lot who saw themselves, their interests, and their relationships with nature in profoundly different ways. He traces their various pursuits of power from 1859 to 1920 as a struggle for cultural, intellectual, and professional authority, over both nature and their peers. Here we see how some saw power as the work they did exploring and drilling into landscapes, while others saw it in the intellectual work of explaining how and where oil accumulated. Charting the intersection of human and natural history, their story traces the ever-evolving relationship between science and industry and reveals the unsuspected role geology played in shaping our understanding of the history of oil.
Author : R.J. Forbes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Marius S. Vassiliou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1538111608
The petroleum industry is unique: it is an industry without which modern civilization would collapse. Despite the advances in alternative energy, petroleum’s role is still central. Petroleum still drives economics, geopolitics, and sometimes war. The history of petroleum is, to some measure, the history of the modern world. This book represents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day, covering all aspects of business, technology, and geopolitics. The book also presents an analysis of the future of petroleum, and a highly useful set of statistical graphs. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook for petroleum will find this book a uniquely valuable first place to look. This new second edition incorporates all the revolutionary changes in the petroleum landscape since the first edition was published, including the boom in extraction of oil and gas from shale formations using techniques such as fracking and horizontal drilling. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on companies, people, events, technologies, countries, provinces, cities, and regions related to the history of the world’s petroleum industry. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the petroleum industry.