Book
The offshore imperative: Shell Oil's search for petroleum in postwar America
Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history, no. 19, Texas A & M University Press
2007
Abstract
"Tyler Priest's study is the first time the modern history of Shell Oil has been told in any detail. Drawing on interviews with Shell retirees and many other sources, Priest relates how the imagination, talent, and hard work of personnel at all levels shaped the evolution of the company. The narrative also covers important aspects of Shell Oil's corporate evolution, but the company's pioneering steps into the deepwater fields of the Gulf of Mexico are its signature achievement. Priest's study demonstrates that engineers did not suddenly create from scratch methods for finding and producing oil and gas from astounding water depths. Rather, they built on a half-century of accumulated knowledge and improvements to technical systems. Shell Oil's story is unique, but it also illuminates the modern history of the petroleum industry."--Jacket.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The offshore imperative: Shell Oil's search for petroleum in postwar America
- Creators
- Tyler Priest - University of Iowa, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press; College Station
- Series
- Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history; no. 19
- ISBN
- 9781585445684; 1585445681
- Number of pages
- xi, 317 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2007
- Academic Unit
- Geographical and Sustainability Sciences; History; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9983949681202771
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