Historical Highlights
Historical Highlights is an EXPLORER series that focuses on the history of petroleum exploration and production. Topics broadly related to our work in the geosciences, the critical advances of science and technology, the key discoveries and the saints and sinners among our colleagues are all welcome. Narratives that illuminate the E&P process or its context in geopolitics and energy economics are encouraged. If you have such a story or know someone who does, please contact Matt Silverman, the series editor, at [email protected].
Shortly after joining Hamilton Brothers Oil Co. in Denver as vice president, I was fort...
The world’s petroleum geologists will gather in Mu...
There is a reason we studied historical geology as under...
Max Ball was one of the foremost figures in the oil indu...
On April 13, 1993, Wallace Earle Stegner died in a hospi...
The dry hole at Fahud-1 in Oman is famous in the annals ...
Petroleum geologist David Read gives a firsthand account...
The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and fai...
A piece of the Osage oil history is vividly portrayed in...
On Aug. 3, 1966, Continental Oil Company’s Fateh-1...
In his 1994 autobiography, “From Prospect to Prosp...
Very few events in the oil and gas industry attract more...