The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780810870666; 9781282521735
Description: The world as we have known it for the past century would have been very different without petroleum. Petroleum, particularly in the form of crude oil and its refined products, has been central to all aspects of modern industrial society and has been a major strategic geopolitical objective for nations. The 20th century was the age of oil, and at least part of the 21st century will be as well. Petroleum is used as an energy source and as a raw material for the production of an immense variety of chemicalsand synthetic materials. Almost all the world's food relies on petroleum for fertilizer, pesticides, cultivation, or transport. Petroleum has been particularly dominant as a source of transportation fuels, an application for which cost-effective substitutes will be especially difficult to find. The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry presents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on companies, people, places, events, technologies, and phenomena related to the history of the world's petroleum industry. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook forthe petroleum industry will find this book a uniquely valuable source.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Appendix 1: Petroleum Industry Units and Conversions; Appendix 2: Major Middle Eastern Consortia of the Seven Sisters and CFP; Appendix 3: Various Companies with Roots in Standard Oil; Appendix 4: Top Five Oil-Producing Countries for 20-Year Intervals Since 1861; Appendix 5: Sweet and Sour Crudes; Appendix 6: Crudes in the OPEC Basket; Appendix 7: Major Oil Supply Disruptions; Appendix 8: Tanker Classification; Appendix 9: Largest Oil Spills.; title: Appendix 10: Refinery FractionsAppendix 11: Largest Oil Fields; Appendix 12: Largest Gas Fields; Appendix 13: Other Giant Oil and Gas Fields of Historical Interest; Appendix 14: Figures; Bibliography; About the Author.