Geological Notes On Oil Structures - Couverture souple

Hill, Edward Allison

 
9780548680056: Geological Notes On Oil Structures

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California and other States; to suggest some of the conditions existing in formations; the character and methods of determining the better known types of oil structures; a Tnd the possibilities of discovering additional areas where oil in commercially profitable quantity may be found. As viewed from the standpoint of the technical geologist, it is not altogether easy to put the matter in a form to be quickly and fully visualized by the lay reader. The difficulty is not found to be present in the substance to be embraced, but in accurately knowing what to leave out and still maintain complete and understandable text regarding the subjects treated. If it seems that some aspects of certain of the items chosen by the writer for inclusion herein are scantily discussed, or upon the other hand if too much space appears to have been devoted to some other thing,.it will be remembered that there are many sources of data of extremely various kinds of an historical, commercial, geological and economic character, which are drawn upon. The mass of information which has developed regarding petroleum, drilling, producing, marketing and other branches of the industry, and the literature covering the cognate subjects is so vast that the difficulty in treating any department of the oil business briefly is in knowing what to omit, not what to retain. Since the Geological Departments of various of the States, the United States Geological Survey, and other public and private interests, publish many able and trustworthy bulletins, reports and other papers fully setting forth the statistics of the fields, as to barrels of production, value in money, analyses of the different grades of petroleum and other detailed and reliable information of that general type, it appears needless to repeat that matter here. Referring particularly to California, it is and has been for many years one
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Geological Notes on Oil Structures Edward Allison Hill Consulting Geologist c Author of Geological Story of the Mid-C ontinent Oil Fields Hall-G utstadt Company, Publishers San Francisco, 1922 .
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