John M. Sweet

Broschiertes Buch

Discover at Prudhoe Bay

Mountain men and seismic vision drilled black gold

Beschreibung

Discovery at Prudhoe Bay - is the story behind the greatest North American oil discovery success ever the Prudhoe Bay discovery in Alaska and the building of the Trans Alaska pipeline. Author and geologist John Sweet was a district explorationist with the company that made the discovery, and his book details and celebrates the colossal oil exploration feat and world-class engineering and construction project. Sweet's writings offer a first-person account of oil exploration work in interior Alaska and the inherent difficulties involved, including freezing cold temperatures, permafrost and unusual geography. The book also gives insight into the operations of large oil companies and the resourceful ways that they worked, often together, to ascertain the existence of the huge oil reserves. Sweet's narrative also establishes the area's historical and geological background. There are maps, figures and photographs throughout the book. And the book also includes an extensive index, an appendix and a list at people involved with the discovery. This book will appeal particularly to Alaskan buffs, historians, adventure seekers, geologists as well as those with no knowledge of the Prudhoe Bay discovery story.

Autor

John Sweet is a petroleum geologist with an MS from the University of Michigan (1950). He had a thirty-five year career with Atlantic Richfield Company, one-third of which was spent in Alaska. He began his career with a predecessor company, The Atlantic Refining Company, in Midland, Texas, and gradually worked his way north through New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta and British Columbia, arriving in Anchorage, Alaska, February 8, 1962.The day he and his family set foot on Alaskan soil, his life changed forever. He was district explorationist at the time of the discovery. Very few geologists ever get be a part of a major oil discovery, much less a world-class oil field, but he did at ARCO, and it's this story that he shares in Discovery at Prudhoe Bay. The construction of this work was based upon many sources and years of research. John Sweet has also written: Developments in Alaska - Published in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Vol. 48. No. 6 (June 1963) pp1035-1049. This is a summary of all the oil and gas exploration and development in Alaska for 1963.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hancock House Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780888396303
• ISBN-10: 0888396309
• Artikelnr.: 40221162