Obscurity to Success in the Oil Business
Author | : Michael S. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Oil fields |
ISBN | : 9780997508604 |
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Author | : Michael S. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Oil fields |
ISBN | : 9780997508604 |
Author | : Michael S. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997508611 |
Obscurity to Success in the Oil Business is Michael Johnson's inspiring, informative, and engrossing story of achieving the American Dream and, in the process, helping to secure America's energy future. The son of Greek immigrants, Michael carved a path to a stellar career in petroleum geology, armed with intelligence, ingenuity and unrelenting determination. In clear, illuminating detail he reveals how his contribution to the discovery of the giant Parshall oil field finally hinged on his embracing risk-but risk grounded firmly in state-of-the-art science. Obscurity to Success in the Oil Business is a tribute both to America's exceptional technological innovations and to its rich opportunities for the best and brightest of its risk-takers.
Author | : Jon Wlasiuk |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822983249 |
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Author | : Roxie Yonkey |
Publisher | : Reedy Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681064375 |
Among Kansas’s many wheat fields lie secrets and hidden stories of heroes and villains that even a fiction author could never devise. It wasn’t just Dorothy Gale of the Wizard of Oz who roamed The Wheat State. Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure will introduce you to a true cast of characters along with the little-known history of their inventions, deeds, and fame. Learn about the first indigenous woman to argue before the Supreme Court to save her ancestors’ graves from greedy developers. Discover how Frank Bellamy from Cherryvale wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, only to lose his claim to its authorship. Inventions abound in Kansas history such as Mentholatum which had a small role in ending World War II. From Capt. Emil Kapaun who is headed for sainthood to the fraudulent Goat Gland Doctor whose tonics started many entertainers’ careers, there’s no shortage of fascinating anecdotes to choose from. Add to that the countless examples of courageous captains, game-changing women, along with a few ne'er-do-wells whose biographies are chronicled here. Longtime Kansan Roxie Yonkey will unearth the hidden roads and secret passages to unearth the state’s buried treasures. Visitors and lifelong residents alike will find a surprise on every page.
Author | : United States. Industrial Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Antitrust law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2152 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Petroleum |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Chas. A. Stoneham & Co |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Petroleum industry and trade |
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Author | : Steve Coll |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1101572140 |
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, an “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil (The Washington Post) Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe—featuring kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin—and the narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron Ass” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005, and current chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination for Secretary of State. A penetrating, news-breaking study, Private Empire is a defining portrait of Big Oil in American politics and foreign policy.
Author | : John D. Wirth |
Publisher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781587981036 |
Essays covering five case studies to gain an insight into the unique Latin American approach to petroleum resources and industries.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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