Author: Ronald Goodman Nelson
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Ronald G. Nelson grew up on a Central Minnesota dairy farm where he earned his high school and junior college degrees as the salutatorian in both. He attended the University of Minnesota to earn a BS in geological engineering and an MS in geology with a minor in physical chemistry. He began his career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exploration and research and development before moving to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1968, he moved with his family to Libya and Holland as a reservoir simulation expert. He joined Conoco North Sea in London in 1974 where he was manager of planning and economics. There he invented the Tension Leg Platform used to exploit deepwater oil and gas fields all over the world. He introduced Miscible Gas Injection to recover up to 80 percent of the oil in the Statfjord Field on the UK–Norway border in the North Sea. He consulted worldwide for fifteen years until his retirement in 2000.
Hydrocarbon Man Memoirs of a 20th-Century Oil Business Executive
Author: Ronald Goodman Nelson
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Ronald G. Nelson grew up on a Central Minnesota dairy farm where he earned his high school and junior college degrees as the salutatorian in both. He attended the University of Minnesota to earn a BS in geological engineering and an MS in geology with a minor in physical chemistry. He began his career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exploration and research and development before moving to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1968, he moved with his family to Libya and Holland as a reservoir simulation expert. He joined Conoco North Sea in London in 1974 where he was manager of planning and economics. There he invented the Tension Leg Platform used to exploit deepwater oil and gas fields all over the world. He introduced Miscible Gas Injection to recover up to 80 percent of the oil in the Statfjord Field on the UK–Norway border in the North Sea. He consulted worldwide for fifteen years until his retirement in 2000.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Ronald G. Nelson grew up on a Central Minnesota dairy farm where he earned his high school and junior college degrees as the salutatorian in both. He attended the University of Minnesota to earn a BS in geological engineering and an MS in geology with a minor in physical chemistry. He began his career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exploration and research and development before moving to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1968, he moved with his family to Libya and Holland as a reservoir simulation expert. He joined Conoco North Sea in London in 1974 where he was manager of planning and economics. There he invented the Tension Leg Platform used to exploit deepwater oil and gas fields all over the world. He introduced Miscible Gas Injection to recover up to 80 percent of the oil in the Statfjord Field on the UK–Norway border in the North Sea. He consulted worldwide for fifteen years until his retirement in 2000.
Hydrocarbon Man Memoirs of a 20th-Century Oil Business Executive
Author: Ronald Goodman Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ronald G. Nelson grew up on a Central Minnesota dairy farm where he earned his high school and junior college degrees as the salutatorian in both. He attended the University of Minnesota to earn a BS in geological engineering and an MS in geology with a minor in physical chemistry. He began his career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exploration and research and development before moving to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1968, he moved with his family to Libya and Holland as a reservoir simulation expert. He joined Conoco North Sea in London in 1974 where he was manager of planning and economics. There he invented the Tension Leg Platform used to exploit deepwater oil and gas fields all over the world. He introduced Miscible Gas Injection to recover up to 80 percent of the oil in the Statfjord Field on the UK-Norway border in the North Sea. He consulted worldwide for fifteen years until his retirement in 2000.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ronald G. Nelson grew up on a Central Minnesota dairy farm where he earned his high school and junior college degrees as the salutatorian in both. He attended the University of Minnesota to earn a BS in geological engineering and an MS in geology with a minor in physical chemistry. He began his career in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exploration and research and development before moving to Omaha, Nebraska. In 1968, he moved with his family to Libya and Holland as a reservoir simulation expert. He joined Conoco North Sea in London in 1974 where he was manager of planning and economics. There he invented the Tension Leg Platform used to exploit deepwater oil and gas fields all over the world. He introduced Miscible Gas Injection to recover up to 80 percent of the oil in the Statfjord Field on the UK-Norway border in the North Sea. He consulted worldwide for fifteen years until his retirement in 2000.
Oil Man
Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.
Done in Oil
Author: James Howard Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This autobiography details Marshall's career, from his days as a young law student writing about the problems of the oil industry for a prestigious law review, to his oil regulation days under FDR, to his work in some of the country's most important oil companies. Marshall's entertaining and detailed memories bring to life many of the most famous public and private characters of oil history. Unlike any work before it, Done in Oil recounts the history of the oil industry from the perspective of an individual who has known it, quite literally, inside-out, both as practitioner and as analyst. From the curious to the student of oil, business, and government history, readers will come away from this book having learned something new and significant about the oil industry and its culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This autobiography details Marshall's career, from his days as a young law student writing about the problems of the oil industry for a prestigious law review, to his oil regulation days under FDR, to his work in some of the country's most important oil companies. Marshall's entertaining and detailed memories bring to life many of the most famous public and private characters of oil history. Unlike any work before it, Done in Oil recounts the history of the oil industry from the perspective of an individual who has known it, quite literally, inside-out, both as practitioner and as analyst. From the curious to the student of oil, business, and government history, readers will come away from this book having learned something new and significant about the oil industry and its culture.
The Oil Business As I Saw It Half A Century With Sinclair
Author: W L Connelly
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021244680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
W.L. Connelly's memoirs of his life in the oil industry provide a unique perspective on the development of one of America's most important economic sectors. His accounts of the personalities and events that shaped the industry are both insightful and entertaining, and his own career provides a fascinating window into the world of business and commerce in the 20th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021244680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
W.L. Connelly's memoirs of his life in the oil industry provide a unique perspective on the development of one of America's most important economic sectors. His accounts of the personalities and events that shaped the industry are both insightful and entertaining, and his own career provides a fascinating window into the world of business and commerce in the 20th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Memoirs of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian with Particular Relation to the Origins and Foundations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited
Author: Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The historical significance of the document--why it merits some attention--is: 1. Detailed memoir from one of the world's richest 20th century men about how he put together his fortune. 2. Detailed discussion of Ottoman-French-British-German oil and banking competition in the Middle East, including Persia (Iran), before WWI. 3. Detailed discussion of French-British oil policy during WWI. 4. Detailed discussion of the resolution of British-French-U.S. oil antagonisms in the 1920s. 5. Detailed discussion of how the fledgling Iraqi national government was induced to accept the terms of the oil concession prior to the approval of its national constitution.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The historical significance of the document--why it merits some attention--is: 1. Detailed memoir from one of the world's richest 20th century men about how he put together his fortune. 2. Detailed discussion of Ottoman-French-British-German oil and banking competition in the Middle East, including Persia (Iran), before WWI. 3. Detailed discussion of French-British oil policy during WWI. 4. Detailed discussion of the resolution of British-French-U.S. oil antagonisms in the 1920s. 5. Detailed discussion of how the fledgling Iraqi national government was induced to accept the terms of the oil concession prior to the approval of its national constitution.
Conoco
Author: Continental Oil Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576755126
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Wheel of Fortune
Author: Thane Gustafson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674066472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
The world’s largest exporter of oil is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through every major economy. Gustafson provides an authoritative account of the Russian oil industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. The stakes extend beyond global energy security to include the threat of a destabilized Russia.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674066472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
The world’s largest exporter of oil is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through every major economy. Gustafson provides an authoritative account of the Russian oil industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. The stakes extend beyond global energy security to include the threat of a destabilized Russia.
Sustainability of Energy and Water Through the 21st Century
Author: Lee C. Gerhard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description