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 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 ...
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 ...