Historical Highlights
A history-based series, Historical Highlights is an ongoing EXPLORER series that celebrates the "eureka" moments of petroleum geology, the rise of key concepts, the discoveries that made a difference, the perseverance and ingenuity of our colleagues – and/or their luck! – through stories that emphasize the anecdotes, the good yarns and the human interest side of our E&P profession.
If you have such a story – and who doesn't? – and you'd like to share it with your fellow AAPG Members, contact the editor.
Matt Silverman has been the editor of Historical Highlights since January 2019. He is a former chair of the AAPG History of Petroleum Geology Committee and has also served in leadership roles with the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, the Denver International Petroleum Society and the Petroleum History Institute.
Colonel Edwin L. Drake's 1859 well in Pennsylvania initiated the rapid commercial growt...
In February 2011, the court in the small Ecuadorian town of Lago Agrio sentenced Chevro...
Winthrop Rockefeller was the grandson of John D. Rockefeller and the fifth of six child...
During the 1980s, early prospecting in deepwater margins...
In the early exploration days, petroleum geologists were re...
At age 13, when I first began working summers at Davis Oil Company, little did I know I...
Sixty years ago this month, on Sept. 14, 1960, representatives from five oil producing ...
There is something about colored pencils that we, as geologists, find impossible to res...
The German oil industry did not employ geologists until ...
History is repeating itself today as low oil prices forc...
It was Feb. 15, 1954 and the operation known as 'DEF' was in full swing. Unusual for a ...