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].
In 1949 an historic oil field was discovered under the C...
Peter Odell was a pioneer figure in petroleum economics....
Not wishing to split hairs over which is the world&rsquo...
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Natural gas was first commercially discovered in the San...
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