Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry: Edition 2

Marius S. Vassiliou

Jun 2018 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

The petroleum industry is unique: it is an industry without which modern civilization would collapse. Despite the advances in alternative energy, petroleum’s role is still central. Petroleum still drives economics, geopolitics, and sometimes war. The history of petroleum is, to some measure, the history of the modern world. This book represents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day, covering all aspects of business, technology, and geopolitics. The book also presents an analysis of the future of petroleum, and a highly useful set of statistical graphs. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook for petroleum will find this book a uniquely valuable first place to look. This new second edition incorporates all the revolutionary changes in the petroleum landscape since the first edition was published, including the boom in extraction of oil and gas from shale formations using techniques such as fracking and horizontal drilling.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on companies, people, events, technologies, countries, provinces, cities, and regions related to the history of the world’s petroleum industry. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the petroleum industry.

About the author

Marius Vassiliou worked as a senior research geophysicist at Arco Oil and Gas Company and later worked on oil-industry and other problems at the Rockwell International Science Center, where he eventually rose to the position of executive director. Since 2003, he has been an analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he has worked on a number of issues, including oil depletion and its implications. He is an active member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a licensed professional geophysicist in the State of California.