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 the summer of 1865, Thomas Bard arrived in Ventura County, Calif., to begin explorat...
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Most contributions to the exploration community that get...
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During the 1950s, Walter Karl Link was considered one of...
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I landed in Bogota in June 1963 for employment with Texp...
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