Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: N to S

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: N to S

Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9780415939232

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This thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.


The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia

The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia

Author: David A. Waples

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 078649154X

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The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glass industries in Pittsburgh, and local gas companies evolved from individual wells to an interstate supply network acquired by Rockefeller's Standard Oil interests. Natural gas is now a prevalent part of American markets and with the production from the Marcellus shale is filling the critical void left by a lack of new coal, oil, and nuclear power facilities. This vital American enterprise began in the Appalachian states as an accidental and underestimated byproduct of the oil rush of 1859. This book explores the evolution and significance of the natural gas industry to the present day.


Chronology of Venezuelan Oil

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil

Author: Anibal R. Martinez

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-11

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1000966410

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Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.


Petrolia

Petrolia

Author: Brian Black

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0801874653

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This award-winning history provides a fascinating look at the Civil War era oil boom in western Pennsylvania and its devastating impact on the region. In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America’s first oil boom but was also the world’s largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley’s descent into environmental hell. Known as “Petrolia,” the region of northwestern Pennsylvania charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black writes, that “the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument out of which one could extract crude.” In a very short time, Petrolia was a ruined place—environmentally, economically, and to some extent even culturally. Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation. Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc.


History of Geoscience

History of Geoscience

Author: W. Mayer

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1786202697

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The study of the Earth’s origin, its composition, the processes that changed and shaped it over time and the fossils preserved in rocks, have occupied enquiring minds from ancient times. The contributions in this volume trace the history of ideas and the research of scholars in a wide range of geological disciplines that have paved the way to our present-day understanding and knowledge of the physical nature of our planet and the diversity of life that inhabited it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO), the book features contributions that give insights into its establishment and progress. In other sections authors reflect on the value of studying the history of the geosciences and provide accounts of early investigations in fields as diverse as tectonics, volcanology, geomorphology, vertebrate palaeontology and petroleum geology. Other papers discuss the establishment of geological surveys, the contribution of women to geology and biographical sketches of noted scholars in various fields of geoscience.