Petroleum engineering.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
International Petroleum Exposition archive, 1923-1980
Collection
Identifier: 1982-007
Scope and Contents
Archive of annual industrial exposition based in Tulsa; includes executive correspondence, preparations materials, financial accounts, photographs, maps and artefacts. The International Petroleum Exposition Archive is organized into eight Series: Series 1: Historical papers include the history of the IPE; a local, regional, and general history of the petroleum industry; the by-laws of the IPE. Series 2: Correspondence consisting of administrative and exhibitor related...
Dates:
1923 - 1980
Jesse V. Howell papers, 1931-1948
Collection
Identifier: 1992-002
Scope and Contents
The papers of Jesse V. Howell, a petroleum geologist, consist of what appear to be photostats of a compilation of research-reference notes, autograph and typescript transcriptions of excerpts from various sources, and draft fragments of a technical paper Howell may have written in the 1930s pertaining to petroleum engineering practices and geological theories in the early days of the oil industry. The papers also include seven pieces of correspondence between Howell and colleagues dating...
Dates:
1931 - 1948
Parke Atherton Dickey papers, 1957-1971
Collection
Identifier: 1992-003
Scope and Contents
Consists of 37 letters between Dickey and colleagues dating from 1957-1971; bibliography of Dickey's works and drafts of his writings including "The First Oil Well" and "One Hundred Years of Oil Geology" as well as the proposed illustrations for each; an interview (in Spanish) between Fernando Guerrero Matheus and Dickey; research and reference materials which include photographs and a blueprint reconstruction of "Old Pumping Power" on the Holtz Bros. Farrell lease in Grand Valley,...
Dates:
1957 - 1971
Texas-Louisiana oil fields pictures illustrating construction, equipment, methods and practices, Bureau of Mines , Dallas, Texas, 1929-01
Collection
Identifier: TN872.T4H55 1929
Content Description
The photo album not only illustrates oil field construction, equipment, methods and practices, but also gives the distribution of development costs for an average well during the 1920s. Each of the 68 photographs are captioned giving subject, place and date.
Dates:
1929-01