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].
Spindletop's glory days were gone, or so it was believed...
The Casablanca oil field, discovered in 1975 and located...
The search for new sources of helium is of paramount imp...
Little more than a novelty when first discovered, helium...
By the time they are drilled, almost all exploratory ven...
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Since the early days of petroleum exploration, the industry has met diviners and dowser...
In a film about the disaster, 'Fire at Dukhan,' the narr...
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