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The 20 best petroleum books recommended by Vanessa Ogle, Alykhan Satchu, Robert Vitalis, Odd Arne Westad and others.
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The book covers the period from the end of World War II till the present. It focuses on three main and overlapping themes: relationships among companies, their home countries, and their host countries; the growth of competition; and the restructuring of the industry after the energy upheavals of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Mar 22, 2012 · Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum shaped human life since it was first discovered...
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- Colonel Drake, in the silk top hat, talking to his chief engineer Peter Wilson at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, in a photograph taken by John Mather in 1866.
- Map of the Upper Oil Region of Venango County, Pennsylvania. (After Miller 1984) Full size image. Between 1860 and 1868, the fledgling oil industry in northwest Pennsylvania expanded rapidly.
- Oil-spring at Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, Venango Country, Pennsylvania (from The Illustrated London News, 8th November 1862), showing the Woodford and Phillips wells.
- Oil well derricks encased in wooden shuttering belonging to the Noble Brothers Petroleum Company, Branobel, in Balakhani, near Baku, Azerbaijan c. 1890.
- Citgo at Fenway Park
- The Gas That Would Not Burn
- The Extraction State — A History of Natural Gas in America
- Anomalies – Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology: 1917 to 2017
- Breaking The Gas Ceiling: Women in The Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
- Myth, Legend, Reality – Edwin Laurentine Drake and The Early Oil Industry
- The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia
- Supporting The Historical Society – Amazon Associates
- The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
- Daniel Yergin Named Energy Writer of 2020
As noted in Oilfields of Dream — Gassers, Oilers, and Drillers Baseball, beginning in the early 20th century, U.S. petroleum companies fielded baseball teams throughout the oil producing states. With the arrival of opening day 2024, a new book by David Krell features the role of CITGO brand — its widely recognized red triangle logo. His The Fenway ...
In May 1903, a well drilled on a farm near Dexter, Kansas, erupted as a “howling gasser,” and town residents gathered to celebrate the discovery of a natural gas field. Everyone anticipated petroleum riches similar to towns in Ohio and Indiana, where plentiful natural gas supplies had attracted manufacturers (see Indiana Natural Gas Boom). “Darknes...
A close examination of the too often neglected history of U.S. natural gas industry can be found in Charles Blanchard’s The Extraction State, which reviews the resource’s 19th century roots before delving into how regulatory efforts beginning in the 1920s fell apart in the 1970s. The nation’s history is a the history of modern energy production and...
Robbie Rice Gries — with help from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and many volunteers — has written a fascinating and educational history of pioneering women in petroleum geology. In 405-pages, Anomalies, Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology, 1917-2017includes vivid oil patch personal stories, correspondence and photograph...
Published in 2019, Breaking the Gas Ceiling: Women in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industryoffers personal accounts from an expanding group of petroleum pioneers – women who work offshore. The milestones of these notable “women on water” may not receive the attention given to NASA’s women space walkers, but they also deserve recognition. Learn more in ...
The man who would drill the first commercial oil well was down to his last few pennies in August 1859. A letter was on its way to Titusville, Pennsylvania, from the company that had hired him to search for oil. The letter instructed him to close operations, because as far as investors of the Seneca Oil Company were concerned, his drilling effort wa...
In March 2011, David Waples announced McFarland Publishing had published a second edition of his The Natural Gas Industry In Appalachia– in order to incorporate information about the Marcellus Shale natural gas production now ongoing in the region. “For those of you familiar with my book, if you know of any area, technology, incident, persons, issu...
Amazon purchases benefit the American Oil & Gas Historical Society. As an Amazon Associate, AOGHS earns a commission from qualifying purchases. Highlighted History Books from Amazon Education and Teaching Books Biographies and Memoirs Engineering and Transportation Politics and Social Sciences
“Any survey of the natural resources used as sources of energy must include a discussion about the importance of oil, the lifeblood of all industrialized nations.” — Daniel Yergin, bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize According many oil and natural industry experts, energy educators, and policy makers, if time allows you reading only...
The American Energy Society selected Daniel Yergin the Energy Writer of the Year 2020 for his book The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. The timely book offers a “realistic assessment of energy and how it shapes all of human affairs,” and is a synthesis many of the themes covered in the author’s previous award-winning books. Yergi...
Jun 21, 2018 · The history of the European oil and gas industry reflects local and global political events, economic constraints, and the personal endeavours of individual petroleum geoscientists, as much as...
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Nov 6, 2021 · This article chronicles the records and uses of petroleum from the thirteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries in key areas of the world that have historically contributed to the oil industry. For additional information see Forbes (1958), Brice (2009), and Craig et al. (2018).
