Review of the petroleum industry in the United States, April 1934

Circular ◽  
10.3133/cir11 ◽  
1934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hale Bryan Soyster ◽  
G.B. Richardson ◽  
R.W. Richards ◽  
Forester Morrell ◽  
H.C. Fowler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States

Centennial Bibliography: Annotated Selections on the History of the Petroleum Industry in the United States

1959 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-447
Author(s):  
Walter Rundell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Treatment

This bibliography represents an effort to survey and evaluate selected literature dealing with the history of the petroleum industry in the United States. The goal has not been to include everything ever written, but rather, to produce a compact reference work that I hope will be useful to the industry, to students, and to the public.My research has revealed that only one of the four major phases of this industry has been given anything approaching a full historical treatment. This phase is production.

scholarly journals The Geology of Kansas—Arbuckle Group

2004 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Evan K. Franseen ◽  
Alan P. Byrnes ◽  
Jason R. Cansler ◽  
D. Mark Steinhauff ◽  
Timothy R. Carr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geophysical Data ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Drill Stem ◽  
Arbuckle Group

Cambrian-Ordovician Arbuckle Group rocks in Kansas occur entirely in the subsurface. As is demonstrated throughout this paper, the historical and current understanding of the Arbuckle Group rocks in Kansas has in large part been dependent on petroleum-industry philosophies, practices, and trends. The widely accepted conceptual model of Arbuckle reservoirs as an unconformity play guided drilling and completion practices in which wells were drilled into the top of the Arbuckle with relatively short penetration (under 10 to 50 ft) deeper into the Arbuckle. This resulted in very little log or core data available from the Arbuckle interval. In addition, due to the early development (1917-1940) of the majority of Arbuckle reservoirs, log and geophysical data are not up to modern standards. Over the last few decades, deep penetrating wells have been drilled into the Arbuckle accompanied by full modern log suites and drill-stem tests. However, little corresponding core has been taken to calibrate the logs, and no detailed studies have been conducted to date on the more extensive, modern log data. Thus, data and detailed understanding of Arbuckle Group strata in Kansas are lacking relative to Arbuckle and age-equivalent strata from other areas in the United States, especially those where Arbuckle strata crop out. However, Arbuckle Group strata remain an important reservoir target in Kansas, and our understanding of the unit will increase with continued studies that incorporate modern data, techniques, and approaches.

Engineering Salary Trends in the United States Petroleum Industry

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.C. Seanard ◽  
T.A. Leach ◽  
S.M. Frailey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals The Stars and Stripes Wherever: The Impact of Unilateral U.S. Economic Sanctions on the International Petroleum Industry

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Lynn R. Coleman ◽  
Thomas R. Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Economic ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact

The authors discuss the impact of American domestic policies and electoral politics on the formulation of the international economic laws of the United States. They note a trend towards the attempted extraterritorial application of American international economic legislation and highlight the significance of the Helms-Burton Actand the Iran (Libya) Oil Sanctions Act in this context. It is suggested that these Acts represent an aggressive attempt by the United States to force its traditional allies and trading partners to conform to American international economic policies, and that if not successfully challenged in international fora they may be followed by other similar pieces of legislation. Finally, special attention is paid to the impact and potential impact on the oil industry of these Acts and other American international economic measures.

Arabs and the future of oil

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-591
Author(s):  
Walid Khadduri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Energy State ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Shale Oil ◽  
Oil Export ◽  
Depletion Rate ◽  
Sharing Responsibility

The discovery of shale oil and gas in North America (the United States and Canada) is considered a ‘game changer’ in the global petroleum industry. It provides an opportunity for the United States to achieve the energy self-reliance it has sought since the 1970s. It is also expected to allow the United States, the largest petroleum consumer and importer globally, to focus its attention on maximizing the economic benefits and comparative advantages of becoming a self-reliant energy state. It could also enable the United States to reprioritize its strategic interests, sharing responsibility for the security of the oil export routes in the Gulf with its European and Asian allies, rather than shouldering that task almost single-handedly, as is presently the case. However, realization of the advantages that North American shale oil and gas discoveries are purported to bring about will depend on whether the depletion rate can be slowed down and minimized and on whether the cost of production can remain competitive compared with that of conventional hydrocarbons. It will also depend on whether the United States will allow a large percentage of its shale petroleum to be exported, rather than be consumed domestically.

SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHIC EXPLORATION—PART I

Geophysics ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Marr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Additional Case ◽  
Saturated Sand ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Future Potential

The basic problem to be solved in stratigraphic exploration always has been the same—how to develop and use practical techniques which have the capability of finding large stratigraphic oil reserves at a profit. If the petroleum industry in the United States is going to discover in domestic areas the huge reserves which are obviously required for the future, seismic stratigraphic exploration will have to be accepted by the industry and play a major role in the discovery. Seismic stratigraphic exploration must, therefore, be described in such a way that management can visualize it as practical and potentially profitable with proven past accomplishments, with important new capability not yet in application, and with significant future potential. Past seismic stratigraphic exploration capabilities, which found large amounts of oil with crude tools from 1938 to 1962, are illustrated with three case histories covering the probable direct detection of a hydrocarbon‐saturated sand, the discovery of saturated lenticular sands over the area of a tilted out ancestral structure, and the delineation of a flank type stratigraphic trap. Three additional case histories will be presented in Part II in the next issue of Geophysics.

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