History, Exploration & Exploitation of Oil and Gas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Figueirôa, Silvia Fernanda (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Good, Gregory A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Peyerl, Drielli (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Historical Geography and Geosciences,
• Subjects: Historical geology.; Fossil fuels.; History.; Technology-History.; Historical geography.; Geophysics.; Historical Geology.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).; History of Science.; History of Technology.; Historical Geography.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts. The search for oil for industrial uses began in the nineteenth century, the first drills made in Azerbaijan and the United States. This intense search...

Table of Contents:

• Ch. 1 From Local to Global: The Petroleum Geologist Hans Höfer von Heimhalt between Empires, Economies, and Epistemologies
• Ch. 2 The history of oil exploration in the State of São Paulo before the foundation of Petrobras (1872-1953)
• Ch. 3 Petroleum: new energy perspectives for Brazil in 1922
• Ch. 4 Oil and State - the role of the National Petroleum Council (CNP) in the development of oil geology in Brazil
• Ch. 5 Teapot Dome: The greatest political scandal in the history of the U.S. oil industry
• Ch. 6 Technique and exploration: The beginning of micropaleontology in the Brazilian oil industry
• Ch. 7 From colleague to enemy? German petroleum geologists and the Cold War
• Ch. 8 The incredible transforming history of a former oil refiner into a major deepwater offshore operator: Blending audacity, technology, policy and lucky from the 1970's Oil Crisis up to the 2000's Pre-salt Discoveries
• Ch. 9 Research Partnership between PETROBRAS and Brazilian universities in the past transition to the 21st century.