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1931ABC_46004Greece Palestine Iran Iraq Egypt 1931. Oblong photograph album 20.5 x 32 cm. With 72 sepia photographs ca. 6 x 8.5 cm. Album of personal photographs commemorating a journey in 1931-1932 to the oilfields in modern Iran and Iraq by a trio of travellers which included the Reverend Philip "Tubby" Clayton 1885-1972 the founder of the Toc H movement. Several photographs show Galilee Jerusalem Rutbah Wells Ar-Rutbah and about 10 show "fields" mostly the main oilfield at Masjed Soleyman and its gas separator.In 1931 Clayton was invited by the director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company the predecessor of the British Petroleum Company "to inspect the work among the Company units in Persia and the Middle East generally" Harcourt. Accompanied by two friends he travelled by plane train and boat to Lake Tiberias and further by plane to Rutbah Wells a British airfield where the group spent Christmas Eve with British Dutch and German travellers. On Christmas Day they reached Abadan and from there visited the oilfields near Tehran Ahvaz Haftkel Mohammerah Basra and Masjed Soleyman. After a journey to Cairo and Alexandria they boarded an oil tanker for the return journey to Britain. This journey inspired Clayton to plead passionately for improvements to the life of the crews of oil tankers. He described "carrying oil by sea" as "the most lonely job on the world's waters" Clayton. In 1940 he became chaplain of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum's tanker fleet and would subsequently sail on multiple tankers.The photographs must have been taken by Henry Pegg Chappell 1909-1997 since the other members appear he is the only member not present in the photographs and he does not and only Clayton who completed the journey by oil tanker. A carbon copy of a typed list describing all photographs is inserted in the album. Since typed and handwritten additions to the carbon paper refer to Clayton in the third person he probably typed the original list and gave Chappell this carbon copy to insert in his album.With an inscription probably by the three travellers on the title page. Binding slightly worn at the extremities. Paperclip and staple on the typescript rusted. In very good condition.l Clayton "In a tanker" in: The Times 9 March 1932 p. 15; Harcourt The impudent dreamer pp. 216-219. unknown
1957ABC_46260Tel Aviv: Israel Defence Forces General Staff 1957. Folded. 56 x 82.5 cm. Chromolithographic map of the Arabian Peninsula from Turkey in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south and covering Saudi Arabia Egypt Israel Palestine Jordan Syria Lebanon Iraq Iran Kuwait Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman North and South Yemen. Scale 1:5000000. Scale and key in Hebrew inset to top-right inset explanatory panels in Hebrew and English compass rose in Saudi Arabia. Extremely rare Israeli strategic map of the Arabian Peninsula showing oilfields and associated infrastructure. Printed in black red and blue the map demarks the political boundaries of the time along with the areas covered by oil companies concessions. Pipelines form a web across the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula shown in an uncommon vertical orientation while oilfields and refineries large and small are also marked. The IDF probably made the map in responce to the 1956 Suez Crisis and its associated geopolitical shifts. With the Egyptians operating the Suez Canal and the USA forcing Britain and France to abandon their post-imperial plans Israel now counted in both U.S. and Soviet plans for their control of Middle Eastern politics. Britain had to anchor its Middle Eastern influence in Cyprus Aden and Iraq while the increased American influence can be seen in the huge swathe of territory assigned to Aramco. We have located only one institutional copy of this map in the National library of Israel.With traces of pins from former wall mounting. A couple of small light stains some uneven creasing and tears at the edges of some folds and a couple tiny holes where the folds cross. Otherwise in good condition. Israel Defence Forces, General Staff, unknown
1952ABC_46142Al Ahmadi: Kuwait Oil Company 1952. Loose sheets stapled together at the left top corner with holes punched in the left margin. Small folio 33 x 20.5 cm. Duplicated typescript printed on the rectos only in purple ink probably with a spirit duplicator. Unrecorded information guide for new employees of the Kuwait Oil Company KOC who would be residing in Al Ahmadi headquarters of the Company. The Kuwait Oil Company was founded in 1934 a joint venture between the British Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the American company Gulf Oil. In the same year the sheik of Kuwait Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah reigned 1921-1950 granted them rights to the oil concession which they were to retain until 1975. The first oil was discovered in 1938 in Burgan field followed by discoveries in Magwa in 1951 Al Ahmadi in 1952 and many more regions. In 1946 the first commercial shipment took place. Because the initial development of the KOC coincided with the end of the British Raj in India many British and Indian people in its service were transferred to Kuwait in particular to Al Ahmadi. Al Ahmadi was set up to house these workers.This unrecorded guide is quite rare especially because it seems to be a quite cheaply produced and ephemeral document which was issued only in small numbers for in-house circulation.At some places very slightly frayed and creases along the edges and corners staple a little rusted leaves slightly toned some leaves a little cut short at the foot with no loss except for some of the catch-words but overall in remarkably good condition. A rare and unrecorded guide for employees of the Kuwait Oil Company in Ahmadi. Kuwait Oil Company, unknown
192012758Fort Worth: Standard Blue Print Map & Eng. Co 1920. Very good. Folding map 25.75 x 25.75 inches on thin paper. Old folds minor edge wear several short closed edge tears a couple of small areas of loss at crossfolds. Overall good condition and a wonderful display item. A rare and detailed Texas oil map produced by a Fort Worth firm just after World War I and here present in the larger 25-x-25-inch issue advertised in the promotional text on the map itself. The map shows the distribution of oil wells and derricks across the Lone Star State in 1920 prints the names of the most prominent oil fields and lists the names of Texas counties along with the oil companies active in each county. The map also shows the types of soil and rock deposits encountered throughout Texas counties with a legend of abbreviations for each at bottom right. The area of the map is crowded in places but still quite attractive and legible and is a good encapsulation of the rapidly developing oil industry in Texas at the time. Contemporary advertisements for the publisher of this map Standard Blue Print Map and Engineering promote the availability of over 200 oil maps of Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Louisiana and Arkansas from the firm. A rare map rarer still in this larger size; we locate just two copies at SMU one issued with a slightly later "May 1920" copyright notice with a larger "photocopy" reported at Denver Public Library and the Colorado School of Mines. Standard Blue Print Map & Eng. Co unknown
1970ABC_50132Iran 1970. The collection is housed in a plastic file folder with each photograph also separately kept in a plastic folder. Various sizes. With 10 photographs. Collection of ten beautiful press photographs of the oil industry in Abadan Iran which was home to the largest oil refinery in the world at the time these photographs were taken. They show various parts of the industry such as the oil refinery oil tankers pipelines and fire department. The photographs were take by various French and German news agencies.With the stamps of various French and German news agencies on the back of each photograph. Some of the photographs are slightly creased. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1948L2EG76GNBQ6GLondon: Brettenhem house 1948. Later cardboard binder. 30 x 23.5 cm. With many reproductions of photographs ground plans maps and cross-sections. Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions accompanied by a map showing their oil fields followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran Iraq Bahrein Saudi Arabia Haifa Israel and Kuwait describing the area's geology oil fields reservoirs and more illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries probably advertisements but the article itself complete some leaves slightly creased otherwise in very good condition. Brettenhem house, unknown
1958163043Kuwait: 1958. A fitting gift for a veteran oil man This evocative image was likely captured at dawn and shows two Bedouin engaged in the daily Fajr prayer both wearing the traditional shemagh headdress . Although not marked as such this was presented to William K. Whiteford 1900-1968 president of Gulf Oil in 1958 - the 20th anniversary of the discovery of oil in Kuwait. In 1934 Gulf Oil formed an alliance with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to create the Kuwait Oil Company. It received concession rights in 1934 started drilling in 1936 and discovered oil two years later in the massive Burgan oil field. In 1957 Whiteford was described by Time magazine as "burly aggressive Bill Whiteford who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co. Ltd. made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Sidney A. Swensrud who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings firmly but unofficially took over much of the executive authority". 1958 was also the year in which Whiteford published a short in-house history Gulf and the World Oil Industry. The image of Bedouin at their sunrise prayers may be an intentional hommage to the dawn of the Kuwaiti oil industry. Original colour photograph measuring 232 x 347 mm; mounted and glazed in brown wood frame by the Kendrick Bellamy Company Denver overall 407 x 507 mm. Pencilled date below framer's label "5-14-57". Light damp staining to bottom edge of mount a few scratches to frame and minor loss to backing. Overall in excellent condition. Time 25 March 1957. unknown
1948183725London: Compiled in the Companies' Head Office 1948. An informative survey of the Middle East and its oil industry First edition of this excellent handbook for IPC employees outlining the operations and expanding importance of the petroleum industry and surveying the history and current condition of states in Arabia the Gulf and the Levant. Chapter 1 describes the IPC's formation the mechanisms for opening a new concession the history of its prospecting and extraction projects and the Mediterranean pipeline. A chapter on the culture of the Arab world is followed by regional breakdowns that draw on company and government reports. Concerning the Gulf the handbook emphasizes the potential of oil exploration to transform the region. In Qatar where an oil field was discovered in the late 1930s "the population is scanty and wretchedly poor. The Company's present operations supply almost the sole source of wealth. The building of necessary roads jetties dwellings offices workshops stores and the like has advanced simultaneously with drilling" pp. 15 & 69. Accompanying the text are valuable plates showing IPC operations in Kirkuk and near Tripoli views of Qatar and Bahrain from the air and a well with head fittings and flow lines. The folding regional map details oil fields refineries and pipelines both built and projected. A useful tabular appendix summarizes the present state of the IPC's concessions including the area they cover and the rights granted as well as current exploration licenses. Octavo. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of King Faisal and 26 plates folding area map at rear maps in text. Original grey cloth spine lettered in red company logo in red on front board. Ownership inscription "L. B. Griffiths Tripoli 21.11.1948" on front free endpaper. Light sunning marking at head of front board top edge foxed: very good. hardcover
1954170939New York: Standard Oil Company New Jersey 1954. A new era in Middle East oil Revised and updated edition following the first of 1947 of this glossy guide illustrated with three colour maps of the Arabian Peninsula showing oil fields and concessions pipelines and refineries. Recognizing the potential of Saudi Arabia's vast oil reserves in 1946 Standard Oil Company New Jersey acquired a 30 percent stake in the Arabian American Oil Company. A colour bar chart illustrates Saudi Arabia's rapid growth as an oil producer after 1946. The introduction stresses the region's importance to emerging Cold War geopolitics: "Middle Eastern oil is a major element in the economies of Europe and the East. It is essential to the defence of the free world" p. 5. Quarto. Colour reference maps in text as well as photographic half-tones. Original wrappers front cover lettered in black against outline of Arabian Peninsula wire-stitched as issued. Front cover bright rear wrapper lightly soiled a little internal creasing from handling: a near-fine copy. unknown
192549705Pittsburgh PA & Port Arthur TX: Gulf Refining Co. ca. 1925. Folio. 11.5 x 14.25 in. 5 large oversize folding leaves of typed descriptions measurements specifications; mounted 7 linen-backed photo leaves 2 folding -- w/ 39 images printed on 34 silver gelatin photos. Original split-pin post-binder blue silk red cloth corners brass split pins minor edgewear rubbing minor fraying to corners first typed leaf w/ creasing minor closed tears still a VG exemplar from the library of John W. Jackson former Marketing & Sales executive with Gulf Oil Corporation Tulsa OK. This spectacular packaging catalogue for Gulf Oil Company petroleum products in the 1920s provides an incomparable photographic reference for all of the available products their dimensions sizes specific directions about tin lithograph colours as well as the cardboard and wooden shipping crates. Gulf Oil Corporation was initially organized in May 1901 by J.M. Guffy Andrew W. Mellon and others. By 1907 they had built a 400-mile pipeline from Port Arthur to the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma and started refining Oklahoma crude by 1907. By the 1920s this integrated Oil Company had built service stations across the country sold Good Gulf Gasoline and actively promoted automobile travel with Gulf Maps marketing promotions and more. This catalogue begins with photos of 1 5 10 and 25 lb. tins of Gulf Supreme Grease Transmission Grease Red Top Axle Grease Gulf Petrol-atum Gulf High Pressure Grease and Gulf Lubricant with all of the product tins carefully sized by stack showing their side graphics sizes lids and lid configurations. The oil cans include Tractor Oil Auto Oil Harvester Oil Gulf Motorcycle Oil small illustration of 1920s era motorcycle with Gulf Logo and even the blank tin soldered cans of assorted sizes. Of particular interest are the images of all the specialty products Gulf Oil was marketing during the Flapper Era including Venom pesticide & bug killer in glass bottles with screw-top tin lids & corks; Gulf Gas-o-Clenz cans in 1/2 pint 1 pint 1 quart and 1 gallon sizes; Gulf Gleam Cans Gulf Jelly Clens tubes Gulf Grease tubes and more. The last group of photos show all of the varieties of Gulf Venom Jelly-Clenz Gulf Pressure Grease Gulf Gleam cardboard and wooden packaging complete with printed labels lithograph labels Venom hand-sprayers and packaging and crates in assorted sizes and amounts. These types of photographic sales catalogues for the Petroleum industry are quite scarce and often unique items. Gulf Refining Co., hardcover
1963169036Kuwait: Matba at hukumat al-kuwayt 1963. Kuwaiti oil policy in the state's earliest years First edition first printing of this rare pamphlet which is at once a statistical record of Kuwaiti oil production and a policy document arguing for oil as the key factor in the development of the country. When this pamphlet was published Kuwait had only been independent for about two years. The text is accompanied by a superb fold-out map showing the state's oil fields and the companies that ran them at the time. Following a very brief outline of Kuwait's geography climate and history the first chapter is devoted to oil production. Kuwait is named as the fourth-largest producer of oil in the world after the United States the Soviet Union and Venezuela. Subsequent sections are given over to each of the five oil companies operating on Kuwaiti territory: Kuwait Oil Company Ltd Aminoil Japan's Arabian Oil Company Shell Kuwait and Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The most expansive sections give precise information on how many fields and wells the companies ran how many barrels each field produced per year and the annual volume of exports by country with accompanying fold-out colour bar charts. The second chapter is devoted to revenues again broken down by company and details the concessions paid by the American and Japanese concerns to the state of Kuwait. The third chapter discusses Kuwaiti oil policy including the state's role in the foundation of OPEC in 1960 to avoid unilateral decreases in the price of oil as well as its commitment to train home-grown talent in the oil sector and thereby reduce dependence on foreign expertise. Octavo. With 6 black and white illustrations 3 fold-out colour bar charts fold-out colour map. Text in Arabic. Original white wrappers wire-stitched as issued lettered and illustrated in black. Wrappers nicked rear wrapper split at head and soiled along the spine fold-out map nicked. A very good copy. unknown
1948BB.23.032<em><strong>Silver prints 158; 3 x 5 and 7 x 9 inches; Some with identifying locations recto and others with photographer's hand stamp verso.</strong></em> This compelling photo album compiled between 1948 and 1957 offers a view into the rapid development of roadside infrastructure that took place in California during the transformative period of post-war prosperity.<br /><br />As California experienced a surge in car ownership and a growing reliance on automobiles for transportation the need for accessible and conveniently located gas stations became increasingly apparent. The album shows how Associated Oil Company by this time a subsidiary of Tidewater Oil owned by Getty strategically positioned their now-iconic "Flying A" gas stations to cater to the burgeoning market up and down the West Coast. This album presents prospective locations some depicted with realtors' advertising boards scenes of construction and improvements and views of recently completed service stations spanning from the Southern Bay Area to Los Angeles.<br /><br />The album is mostly un-captioned with just a few prints having notations on the rectos but many scenes are identifiable by the signage of local businesses and vehicles or the sharp and visible street-signs. Some identifiable locations include: San Jose Saratoga Los Gatos San Marino Canoga Avenue in Woodland Hills and Nordhoff & Terra Bella Streets in Los Angeles among numerous others.<br /><br />A fantastic album which captures the relationship between changing consumer needs swiftly-increasing land development and the iconic roadside gas stations that have become synonymous with California's roadside landscape.
19014590Oklahoma City OK: Daily Oklahoman 1901. Map Illustrated Advertisement. Near Fine. A seminal promotional piece by an American oil company offering a nascent map of the rich Spindletop drilling area in Southern Texas during it's proving and cash-raising stages. Published in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper in 1901 to encourage investors to "buy-in" to the excitement of the oil boom this enticing ad worked her wallet-opening charms well as the region ultimately became famous for both it's quality and quantity of sustained oil production. The ad measures 19.5 inches tall x 14 inches wide with some toning and faint fold lines barely evident. It has been deacidified and linen backed with a few tiny archival repairs to top and left edges. A significant and early piece of Texas Petroliana. Daily Oklahoman unknown
192556537Chicago IL & La Crosse WI: Standard Oil Company Indiana; Stanolind Record 1925-1929. Two vols. 1st - 4to. 9 x 11.5 in. Approx 120 leaves many added leaves over numbering. mimeographed sheets throughout w/ text illustrations diagrams and decorative lettering with 15 sample sales brochures & catalogues most 12mo. & 16mo. w/ 4 to 24 pp. most illustrated several printed in colour inks and all retaining their original covers carefully tipped-in to their respective sections. Three-quarter black cloth over gray boards post-binder brass split-pin posts at gutter margin occasional minor creasing to a few corners light interior toning still VG copy; together with 2nd -- 8vo. 72 pp. Numerous photo & text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers bound into simulated black calf gilt lettering stamped on front cover rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copies of both from the library of Andrew Edward MacMeekin 1884-1949 who was the purchasing manager for Standard Oil of Indiana at the main offices in Chicago IL from before World War I to his death w/ his ownership stamp on front cover of the Stanolind vol. First editions of these very scarce Standard Oil Company Indiana sales publications by one of the independent oil companies to emerge after the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911. Standard Oil Indiana pioneered the “cracking†process for refining crude oil under pressure resulting in far higher yields of gasoline and the many byproducts and by the mid-1920s was the third largest oil refiner in the U.S. behind Standard Oil New Jersey and Standard Oil California. This very scarce salesman’s advertising manual was created for distribution around the time that Standard Indiana had merged with the American Oil Co. Amoco and was looking to streamline both their purchasing and marketing pitches to service stations wholesalers and jobbers. The manual continually extolls the product diversity and reach of the Standard Indiana Company with Sinclair Dixie Pan-American Petroleum and Midwest Refining as subsidiaries the extensive fleet of oil tankers railroad tank cars and chain of service stations. The splendid sample catalogues encompass a range of styles and products including Red Crown gasoline featuring an Art Deco cover of a Standard Oil service station; the high octane Red crown Gasoline; Neolite kerosene for more efficiently and economically raising poultry; competing motor oils of Iso-Vis and Polarine designed for Ford engines; as well as Mica Axle Grease used to coat hog scratching poles; Merusol Petrolatum White petrolatum used as a non-stick coating for bakeries and with a number of “medical†applications as well or the KIP insecticide used for everything from ants and flies to bed bugs and mosquitoes. Also included are customer sales letters sample thank you letters sales goals tips and more. The second volume focuses on an extended article by MacMeekin on the Standard Indiana purchasing department which at the end of the 1920s was spending over $ 50 million a year on 14000 different items ranging from rare Asian flowers to wax from the head of whales pins by the ton locomotives and everything else to fuel the massive oil company. Detailed list of tipped-in catalogues available upon request. No copies located in Worldcat for Sales Manual very incomplete runs and records for holdings of Stanolind Record BP Archive appears to have an issue as well as Univ. of Illinois but incomplete records and run; See: Mark Wilson Stephen Porter Janice Reiff Standard Oil Company Indiana Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses 1820-2000. Standard Oil Company (Indiana); Stanolind Record, paperback
1993Q-0412552108Springer 1993-10-31. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Springer hardcover
1956ABC_47064Dhahran Saudi Arabia: Arabian American Oil Company 1956. Original publisher's decorated wrappers with the title in English on the front wrapper and the title in Arabic on the back wrapper. 28 x 21.5 cm. With a portfolio of photographs 8 pages in the middle of the work with captions in both English and Arabic. Thoroughly and colourfully decorated with photographs maps and other decorations in the text. The 56 pages of text appear twice in the present work as published once in English on the left side of the portfolio and once in Arabic on the right side of the portfolio. Abundantly illustrated report of operations of the Arabian American Oil Company Aramco for the year 1955. The bilingual English and Arabic report was in the form of the present copy issued yearly during the 1950's. The main subjects in the present report concern Iranian oil exploration capital investments research work performance and the training of more Saudi Nationals for oil work.Aramco was founded as a petroleum partnership between US firms and Saudi Arabia in 1933.its headquarters were initially based in the United States but were moved to Dhahran Saudi Arabia in 1952. This coincided with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's successful negotiations - supported by threats of nationalizing the Saudi oil facilities - in 1950 on behalf of the Saudi Arab Government regarding a larger share of the profits. Both the largest onshore and largest offshore oil fields in the world respectively called Ghawar and Safaniya are located in Saudi Arabia and are since their discoveries in the early 1950's in the hands of Aramco.The wrappers are very slightly rubbed with a small stain at the head of the wrapper with the Arabian title otherwise internally fine bright and clean. Overall in very good condition.l WorldCat 2416997 72883664 503717635 648155271 recorded as a serial publication 1951-1961 number of copies of 1955 ed. unclear. Arabian American Oil Company, unknown
19555578Greggton TX: Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. 1955. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 363 pages; Manual No. 509. This is truly a remarkable find. Black & White Photographs of Field Operations. Book Shows Little Wear Text is clean no markings seen No Dust Jacket. Comes with a letter of introduction to the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. Glass case 47-E . Stanolind Oil and Gas Company paperback
193013064Fort Worth: Logan Map Company 1930. Folded map 23 x 17.75 inches. Old folds minor wear a few closed tears along folds repaired with tape on verso bottom left marginal section a bit munched up. Good condition. A scarce and detailed plat map for Reeves County Texas in the crook of West Texas between Fort Stockton and New Mexico. This gridded county map provides numerous details on land ownership oil leases railroad lands and other claims; a number of the major oil companies including Humble Texas California Marland and Atlantic were active in the county at this time. A key is printed in the margin locating various types of oil and gas wells. The middle portion of the map is overprinted in large red letters "Elliot & Waldron Title Companies" who provided information to prospective land buyers in Reeves and several surrounding West Texas counties at this time. <br /> <br /> "In the early 1920s Pecos became the focus of Delaware Basin oil exploration and received substantial publicity though little oil and gas were found in paying quantities. By 1930 however oil excitement had brought a larger and more diversified population to the county" -- Handbook of Texas online. We find records for about twenty Logan Map Company maps all recorded in single copies. Logan Map Company unknown
1970218701970. Texas Labor History Environmental History Photography Unidentified photographer Texas oil field photographs circa 1970s document petroleum extraction industrial labor and land transformation in the American Southwest during a period of sustained energy production and infrastructure expansion. The images provide direct visual evidence of drilling operations mechanical systems and work crews engaged in oil field development situating human labor within the broader environmental changes associated with resource extraction. The archive supports research into energy history industrial technology and the reshaping of rural landscapes through oil production in the late twentieth century.<br /> <br /> Texas circa 1970s. Archive of 82 original color snapshot photographs each measuring approximately 3.5 x 4.75 inches depicting oil drilling sites machinery and surrounding terrain. The photographs include wide views of steel derricks and drilling rigs with visible components such as rotary tables crown blocks and mud systems as well as close range images of workers engaged in construction welding and equipment alignment. Additional scenes show cement mixing and foundational work amid limestone aggregates trailer mounted compressors and generators oil storage tanks and transport vehicles positioned throughout the worksite. The surrounding environment is documented through images of cleared access roads graded earth holding ponds fencing and mesquite brush alongside occasional views of adjacent ranch life including livestock enclosures and domestic scenes.<br /> <br /> The archive situates oil extraction within the broader transformation of rural Texas landscapes during the late twentieth century when energy production reshaped land use infrastructure and local economies. The juxtaposition of heavy industrial equipment with agricultural and residential elements illustrates the integration of petroleum development into existing rural environments. Seasonal variation including a snow covered pasture further emphasizes the continuity of operations across changing conditions. Light edge wear and minor curling to some prints; colors remain strong and images clear. Overall very good condition. A substantial photographic record of oil industry labor and environmental change in Texas during the 1970s. unknown
1982178908Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations 1982. First and only edition of this specially produced work published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of ADCO's first crude oil shipment from Jebel Dhanna. It is scarce with one copy at Exeter University and one at United Arab Emirates University. This work introduces key locations in Abu Dhabi such as the Liwa Oasis Al Ain Oasis and the mountainous regions. It shows how the agriculture and economy of the region has changed in recent years and is richly illustrated with pictures of farmers fisherman camels and palm trees "the prince of the plant kingdom" p. 5. Quarto. Colour photographic illustrations throughout; text in English and Arabic. Original green boards front board stamped with ADCO emblem in gilt green endpapers. With pictorial dust jacket. Jacket without price as issued a little creased at head minor soiling to rear flap verso: a fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
1955187022Teheran: Iranian Oil Exploration & Producing Company 1955. First edition of this rare internal report on Iranian oil production commissioned by the Iranian Oil Exploration & Producing Company and the Iranian Oil Refining Company 4 years after the nationalization. WorldCat lists only 3 institutional copies at Princeton Durham and Berlin. Established in 1951 and restructured in 1954 the National Iranian Oil Company owned the Iranian oil facilities collaborating with a consortium of foreign companies to sell on the international market. This report is a summary of the first year of the consortium's activities. It discusses the background of the Iranian oil industry the exploration and drilling of the Iranian Oil Exploration & Producing Co. the activity of the Iranian Oil Refining Company administration and the oil industry revenue. Like the Durham and Berlin copies the present does not include Appendix C 1 leaf graph of monthly oil production and the loose list of illustrations maps and photographs listed in the Appendices section. Folio. Mimeographed document. Original printed wrappers cloth-covered spine paper envelope pasted to inner front wrapper wire-stitched. Extremities a bit rubbed outer edge chipped at foot wrappers starting but still firm contents toned a little marginal foxing: a very good copy. hardcover
190212944New York 1902. 8pp. Illustrated. Folio. Original self wrappers stapled. Moderate staining and soiling old folds minor edge wear. Good condition. Illustrated with black & white photos and two maps one of holdings in Knox County Kentucky the other in the East Texas Oil Belt centered on Beaumont. The company -- miners and producers of crude lubricating and illuminating oils -- was incorporated in April 1901 under the state laws of Delaware. This prospectus solicited investors and presented its balance sheet and current activities listed officers and presented the "expert opinions" of geologist Major J.W. Otley the original surveyor of the Beaumont and other fields as to the worthiness of the company's properties at nearby Sour Lake Texas. No listings found on OCLC. A unique and early oil company prospectus with notable content on Kentucky and Texas oil. unknown
1993x-0412552108Springer 1993. Hardcover. New. 3rd edition. 640 pages. 10.00x7.75x1.50 inches. Springer hardcover
1970233511970. Rigging International photographs of refinery vessels crawler transporters port cranes and module lifts place oil-industry labor at the center of the late 1970s and early 1980s energy buildout. Captions in the group name offloading modules at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope moving a 420 ton nuclear vessel from Oceanside to San Onofre erecting refinery vessels at Come-By-Chance Newfoundland offloading a 550 ton refinery vacuum tower in Aruba and handling 130 ton bulk-loader cranes at Cherry Point Ferndale Washington. The archive is best dated to roughly the late 1970s and early 1980s from its overlap with San Onofre Units 2 and 3 after the Atomic Energy Commission issued construction permits in 1973 and with Prudhoe Bay work after the Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operating in 1977; Rigging International later identified Alameda California as its world headquarters.<br /> <br /> Rigging International. Archive of 34 large format photographs. Circa late 1970s to early 1980s Alameda California with projects in California Alaska Hawaii Washington Newfoundland Aruba and Sweden. Each 8" x 10" predominantly color with a few black-and-white prints. Captions identify specialized heavy-lift and transport work in refinery construction marine offloading nuclear-component hauling port-crane erection maintenance and machinery installation with recurring references to crawler transporters barge operations lifting frames and oversized refinery vessels. Specific projects documented in the visible prints include Come-By-Chance refinery work in Newfoundland; San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station transport; Hanford reactor hauling; Prudhoe Bay module offloading; the Port of Oakland and Port of San Francisco; the Hawaiian Independent Refinery; Spreckels sugar refinery in Salinas; Cherry Point bulk-loader crane installation near Ferndale; and the Total concrete jacket construction site at Stord Norway.<br /> <br /> Labor shown in this archive document the transport lifting erection and maintenance work required to make energy production function across refineries ports and offshore supply systems. The North Slope photographs belong to the years after the Trans-Alaska Pipeline opened Prudhoe Bay to sustained high-volume production while the refinery and marine-lift photographs align with a broader period in which energy companies expanded output through new modules replacement vessels piping additions and upgraded handling systems rather than through constant construction of entirely new refineries. Alameda Oakland San Francisco Ferndale Aruba Newfoundland and Hawaii appear here as linked points in that industrial geography joined by the labor of crews moving vacuum towers reactors cranes and process equipment too large for ordinary transport. Light handling wear scattered edge wear minor curling and a few corner bends visible across the prints; overall good condition. A record of the heavy-lift labor that built and maintained oil and industrial infrastructure during the post-1973 energy expansion. unknown
1977ABC_47947Baghdad: Ministry of Oil 1977. Original sturdy plastic case. Oblong 10 x 23 cm. With photographic illustrations all postcards are printed in colour. Remarkable complete set of 14 postcards published by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to celebrate the flourishing petroleum industry and probably its nationalisation in 1972. The first 2 postcards show the building of the ministry and the official state portraits of then President of Iraq Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr 1914-1982 and Vice Chairman Saddam Hussein 1937-2003. The remaining 12 postcards are each printed for a different month of the year and show various aspects of the Iraqi petroleum industry including the Al-Bakr deep water terminal renamed in 2003 to Al-Basah oil terminal the Al-Khalida oil products tanker the degassing station at North Rumaila oil field the eternal fire near Kirkuk which was the first oil field found in Iraq and the Haditha-Rumaila pipeline which was newly built at the time.With a small crack in one of the sides of the sturdy plastic case. The first and last card in the set are slightly creased. Otherwise in very good condition. Ministry of Oil, unknown
