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The Oil Century - From the Drake Well to the Conservation Era (Paperback, Reissue Ed.)
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The Oil Century - From the Drake Well to the Conservation Era (Paperback, Reissue Ed.)
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The Age of Petroleum which began with sudden and dramatic power on
August 27, 1859, when the first commercial oil well was completed
near Titusville, Pennsylvania, is just a century old. The story of
oil and of the industrial and social transformations it has
effected during the past one hundred years is a rewarding one in
itself. But J. Stanley Clark has provided an extra insight into
this great development by tracing also the course of production
techniques from rank waste to conservation. It is a story of the
quick grab for mineral riches; of unpredictable results in times
when geology had as yet few or no applications; of wild-flowing
wells and insufficient storage and pipe line facilities; of
consolidations and mergers and small and large facilities; of
attempts, fumbling at first, precise and effective later, to get
the most out of the hugh subterranean storehouse of oil and natural
gas. In short, it is the record of the greatest bonanza of them
all. For a country which has grown accustomed to high-speed
individual transportation, Mr. Clark's reconstruction of certain
events will seem almost incredible. As late as 1920, the oil
industry and its twin, the motor car industry, literally had no
place to go. Public roads were deplorably inadequate-so much so
that oil-field trucks had to give way to mules in moving equipment
to well locations. But the slow triumph of road construction and
the fast accelerating development of other fields have given the
country what it may now take for granted-as long as it has access
to a well-managed petroleum resource, at home and abroad. J.
Stanley Clark, a civilian employee of Tinker Air Force Base,
Oklahoma City, is a historian in his spare time. His interests lie
in industrial as well as in general history, and his Ph.D. is from
the University of Wisconsin.
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