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].
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 ...
It all started in 2002, when Unocal revealed that its Tr...
In 1994, while chairman and CEO of Barrett Resources, I got a call from my good friend ...
In the summer of 1865, Thomas Bard arrived in Ventura County, Calif., to begin explorat...
I was involved in the 2006 discovery of Parshall Oil Field in the Bakken reservoir of N...
The Chixchulub crater on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was long believed to be the result ...
Most contributions to the exploration community that get...
I was once asked during a job interview, 'Is geology a science or an art?' I am still w...