History of the European Oil and Gas Industry
Print publication date: 04/09/2018
Regional Geology and General Interest, History of Geology, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786203632
Weight: 1.2kg
Number of pages: 472
£125.00
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Product Code: SP465
Edited by J. Craig, F. Gerali , F. MacAulauy and R. Sorkhabi
Special Publication 465
The history of the European oil and gas industry reflects local as well as global political events, economic constraints and the personal endeavours of individual petroleum geoscientists as much as it does the development of technologies and the underlying geology of the region. The first commercial oil wells in Europe were drilled in Poland in 1853, Romania in 1857, Germany in 1859 and Italy in 1860. The 23 papers in this volume focus on the history and heritage of the oil and gas industry in the key European oil-producing countries from the earliest onshore drilling to its development into the modern industry that we know today. The contributors chronicle the main events and some of the major players that shaped the industry in Europe. The volume also marks several important anniversaries, including 150 years of oil exploration in Poland and Romania, the centenary of the drilling of the first oil well in the UK and 50 years of oil production from onshore Spain.
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Acknowledgements
Craig, J., Gerali, F., MacAulay, F. & Sorkhabi, R. The history of the European oil and gas industry (1600s–2000s)
History of the UK oil and gas industry
Ritson, N. H., Byrne, I. & Cohen, D. A. UK petrol retailing: competitive rivalry and the decline of the oil majors in the twentieth century
Corfield, S. M. The first oil exploration campaign in the UK, 1918–22
Dean, G. The Scottish oil-shale industry from the viewpoint of the modern-day shale-gas industry
Lea, C. Derbyshire’s oil and refining history: the James ‘Paraffin’ Young connection
Gluyas, J., Tang, L. & Jones, S. Argyll Field: the first oil field to be developed on the UK Continental Shelf
Bunce, J. The history of exploration and development of the Liverpool Bay fields and the East Irish Sea Basin
Haarhoff, M. Q., Hughes, F., Heath-Clarke, M., Harrison, D., Taylor, C., Ware, D. L., Emms, G. G. & Mortimer, A. The history of hydrocarbon exploration and development in North Yorkshire
Thomas, R. The development of the manufactured gas industry in Europe
History of the oil and gas industry in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Krzywiec, P. The birth and development of the oil and gas industry in the Northern Carpathians (up until 1939)
Tulucan, A. D., Soveja-Iacob, L.-E. & Krezsek, C. History of the oil and gas industry in Romania
Cantoni, R. Second Galicia? Poland’s shale gas rush through historical lenses
History of the oil and gas industry in Western Europe
Jakobsson, K. H. A history of exploration offshore Norway: the Barents Sea
Cazzini, F. F. The history of the upstream oil and gas industry in Italy
Gerali, F. & Lipparini, L. Maiella, an oil massif in the Central Apennines ridge of Italy: exploration, production and innovation in the oil fields of Abruzzo across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Gerali, F., Macini, P. & Mesini, E. Historical study of geosciences and engineering in the oilfields of the Emilia-Romagna region in the socio-economic context of post-Unitarian Italy (1861–1914)
Navarro Comet, J. Ayoluengo’s history – Spain’s only onshore oil field
Navarro Comet, J. & Puche Riart, O. A century of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Spain (1860–1960)
History of the petroleum industry and petroleum geologists
Gisler, M. Entangled between worlds: Swiss petroleum geologists, c. 1900–50
Spencer, J. & Furcuta, M. Myron Kinley and the ‘Torch of Moreni’
Wannier, M. M. A. ‘Uniformity in Geological Reports’ (1917) by Josef Theodor Erb, petroleum geologist and manager (1874–1934)
Kölbl-Ebert, M. German petroleum geologists and World War II
Tari, G. & Bérczi, I. Simon Papp, a prominent Hungarian petroleum geologist: how to run exploration projects from a prison cell
Sorkhabi, R. Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood (1846–1919): a watershed in the British oil industry
Bibliography of additional selected key publications on the history of the European oil and gas industry
Gazetteer of oil and gas museums in Europe
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