http://www.geoexpro.com/rss/History_of_Oil_headlines.xmlThis newsfeed has been automatically generated by GEO Exproen-gb12 Mar 2012Copyright: (C) http://www.GEOExpro.comPetroleum geology textbooks have been an essential tool for training generations of teachers, researchers, explorers, and managers in the petroleum industry. Here we look at some of the early textbooks in this field as a way of paying tribute to these works and their authors, upon whose shoulders stand the writers, teachers and textbooks of our time.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Early_Textbooks_of_Petroleum_Geology/e2f33712.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Early_Textbooks_of_Petroleum_Geology/e2f33712.aspxThu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Having just celebrated its 80th anniversary, CGGVeritas is one of the longest established service companies in the oil industry, and now employs over 7,200 people in 70 countries. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/80_Years_of_Discovery/9abe8f0b.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/80_Years_of_Discovery/9abe8f0b.aspxTue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT In the past two issues of GEO ExPro (No. 2 and 3, Vol. 8), we looked at the profiles of John D. Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell; in this final part of the article, we review the growth and fate of the Standard Oil Company, which, as we will see, remains the great-grandfather of the major US oil companies today. http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Standard_Oil_Story_III_The_Rise_Fall_and_Rise_of_The_Standard_Oil_Company/0792b40f.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Standard_Oil_Story_III_The_Rise_Fall_and_Rise_of_The_Standard_Oil_Company/0792b40f.aspxSun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT As global interest in the hydrocarbon potential of the Circum-Arctic increases, it is becoming vital to unravel the complex geological history of the region.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Geological_History_of_the_Arctic_Ocean/dd9c4561.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Geological_History_of_the_Arctic_Ocean/dd9c4561.aspxTue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT The 1901 discovery of oil at Spindletop, Beaumont, Texas, not only changed the oil industry for ever; the blowout had such a large impact that the world would never be the same again. Geoscientists and engineers should also remember that the Lucas discovery only became reality because of innovative geological ideas and novel engineering solutions.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Discovery_that_Changed_the_Oil_Industry_for_Ever/f1902520.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Discovery_that_Changed_the_Oil_Industry_for_Ever/f1902520.aspxSat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT The first offshore well was drilled in shallow water in 1968. For the next 30 years, Petrobras has been challenging ocean depths with the innovation and technology that has brought the oil and gas industry into the ultra-deepwater era.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Pioneering_Production_from_the_Deep_Sea/94209e7a.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Pioneering_Production_from_the_Deep_Sea/94209e7a.aspxThu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of oil discovery at Masjid Sulaiman in southwest Iran (Persia), which ushered in a new era in the history of the Middle East. This is the story of the men who made this discovery.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Centenary_of_the_First_Oil_Well_in_the_Middle_East/eb6bc466.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Centenary_of_the_First_Oil_Well_in_the_Middle_East/eb6bc466.aspxThu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT In terms of petroleum reserves and production, the Middle East is second to none. The stories behind the first discoveries in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the 1930s are also intriguing.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Emergence_of_the_Arabian_Oil_Industry/d846be03.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/The_Emergence_of_the_Arabian_Oil_Industry/d846be03.aspxWed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of the very first commercial oil discovery in the Sirt Basin, Libya, in 1958. In the years since then, 22 giant and more than 25 large fields have been discovered, making the basin one of the world's premier petroleum provinces.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Half_a_Century_of_Oil_in_Libya/bc60d24d.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Half_a_Century_of_Oil_in_Libya/bc60d24d.aspxWed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Iraq, which has been on the mass media's spotlight and international focus in recent years, has a record of oil and bitumen dating back to the earliest human civilizations more than five thousand years ago. Here we look at the emergence of Iraq's oil industry in the past century rooted in the heritage of the past millennia and fashioned by the modern geopolitics and geoscience.http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Oil_from_Babylon_to_Iraq/c1a3bcf0.aspxhttp://www.geoexpro.com/article/Oil_from_Babylon_to_Iraq/c1a3bcf0.aspxTue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT