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].
To most outsiders in the 1950s, the Buraimi Affair was a passing curiosity, a faraway s...
The discovery of oil in the Peruvian Amazon is an extrao...
Bibi-Heybat is an oil and gas-condensate field located on the Apsheron Peninsula on the...
Petroleum exploration on the United States' Outer Contin...
You might not know her name, but you definitely know her...
The Los Angeles Times once called William Rintoul 'one o...
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...