Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum IndustryThe 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. |
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Appendix 1 | 519 |
Appendix 6 | 533 |
Appendix 7 | 535 |
Appendix 8 | 537 |
Appendix 9 | 539 |
Appendix 10 | 541 |
Appendix 11 | 543 |
Appendix 12 | 545 |
Appendix 13 | 547 |
Appendix 2 | 525 |
Appendix 3 | 527 |
Appendix 4 | 529 |
Appendix 5 | 531 |
Bibliography | 551 |
About the Author | 593 |
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Abu Dhabi acquired agreement American Amoco APOC Arab Aramco Baku barrels became began billion Branobel British California Chevron China compa Company later company’s concession ConocoPhillips consortium Corporation country’s crude oil developed discovered discovery drilling Energy exploration ExxonMobil fuel gas field gas production gasoline Gazprom geophysical global Guffey increased interest Iran Iran’s Iranian Oil Iraq Iraq Petroleum Company Jersey later Exxon Kuwait Lukoil Mexico Mmbpd national oil company natural gas North Sea offshore oil and gas oil field oil industry oil prices Oil production 2015 oil reserves oil sands OIL SHOCK OPEC operations PdVSA peak Pennsylvania Pennzoil percent of U.S. percent of world Persian Gulf Petroleum Company Petroleum Exporting Countries petroleum industry pipeline president Qatar refinery refining Royal Dutch Shell Russia Saudi Arabia share Spindletop Standard Oil Company Statoil subsidiary tankers Tcf of gas Texaco Texas tion Venezuela world’s largest