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Title

The offshore imperative : Shell Oil's search for petroleum in postwar America / Tyler Priest.

Author

Priest, Tyler.

Publication

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 19

Uniform Title

Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 19.

Subjects

• Shell Oil Company History
• Petroleum industry and trade > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-303) and index.

Contents

1. The Americanization of Shell Oil -- 2. Testing the waters -- 3. Betting on technology -- 4. The trials and triumphs of exploration -- 5. The end of business as usual -- 6. The offshore imperative -- 7. Deepwater treasures in a new era of oil -- Epilogue : the globalization of Shell Oil.

ISBN

• 1585445681 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781585445684 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006024954

OCLC

• OCM70778354
• 70778354
• SCSB-8991051

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Columbia University Libraries