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The Petroleum History
Society has not reviewed these links for accuracy and completeness, and is not
responsible for their content.
To recommend a link, or to comment on these sites, drop a line to info@petroleumhistory.ca.
Worldwide | Canada | United States
Worldwide
History of the World Petroleum Industry (Key Dates) from Geo-Help Inc. www.geohelp.net/world.html
Canada
Areas and Fields
| Companies and Organizations | People
| United States
Companies and Organizations |
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| Alberta Research Council |
Alberta
Research Council history at Alberta
Research Council website |
| BA |
British
American Oil - by Alex Colwell, a collector of British American
Oil memorabilia |
| BP |
BP
History |
| Canadian Centre for Energy Information |
In 2005 the Petroleum History Society partnered with the Canadian Centre for Energy Information to extend the communications reach of both organizations to new audiences.
The Canadian Centre for Energy Information is a non-profit organization created in 2002 to meet an urgent need for information about all parts of the Canadian energy sector from oil, natural gas, coal, thermal and hydroelectric power through to nuclear, solar, wind and other sources of energy.
Here are some historical sections at this site. Be sure to look around the site for more.
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| Canadian Gas Association |
History of the Canadian Gas Association - Fuelling Progress, 100 Years of the Canadian Gas Association (29-page PDF 2.9 megabytes) |
| En-Ar-Co / White Rose Oil Co. |
En-Ar-Co
/ White Rose Site, by Jim Williams, a collector of Canadian
service station memorabilia |
| Irving Oil |
Irving
Oil - service station memorabilia from Irving Oil by Bud Irving |
Nexen/
CanOxy |
Corporate
History of Nexen Inc. (formerly Canadian Occidental Petroleum
Ltd.) |
| Supertest |
Supertest
- by Jim Williams, a collector of Canadian service station memorabilia |
People |
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| Inductees to Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame |
Canadian Petroleum
Hall of Fame |
| Early Canadians |
Hard Oiler!: The Story of Early Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad, by Gary May - received a Petroleum History Society Award for Book of the Year in 1998.
Gary May's website - Books section has ordering information - www.garymay.ca |
| Abraham Gesner |
Photo of government-erected monument to Gesner at Chipman Corner in Kings County, Nova Scotia:
http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/gesnermem.html
"Abraham Gesner saved more whales than Greenpeace ever will"
Essay - How Capitalism Saved the Whales by James S. Robbins.
including photo of Gesner monument erected by the Government of Canada's Historic Sites and Monuments Board:
www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/gesner.html
From The Eclectic Lapidary 1997
Abraham Gesner -
A Father of Petroleum
by Hans Durstling
Gesner at Nova Scotia Museum website:
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fossils/finders/gesner.htm
Gesner at Heritage Resources Saint John
on New Brunswick Community College website:
www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/heritage/AlbertMines/AGesner.htm
Abraham Pineo Gesner on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pineo_Gesner
Gesner in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Library and Archives of Canada:
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38570
Gesner on Virtual American Biographies website (scroll down on page for bio):
http://famousamericans.net/abrahamgesner/
Gesner's kerosene patent was dated March 27, 1855. At Brainy History you can see what else happened in 1855, or on March 27 in other years:
http://brainyhistory.com/events/1855/march_27_1855_53292.html
The New Brunswick Museum
Successor to the Museum of Natural History which Dr. Abraham Gesner opened on On April 5, 1842.
http://www.gnb.ca/0130/english/info_main.html
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| Gesner and Williams |
New September 2008 - Gesner and Williams: two Canadians who launched the world's petroleum industry - by Earle Gray (reproduced with the author's permission) 12-page PDF, 149k |
| George Govier |
Abstract of 1997 interview
with George Govier on the Chemical
Heritage Foundation website |
| Earle Gray- historian and PHS member |
Dig a little history
with FREE resources at
www.earlegray.ca
Read, or download and print these articles and book excerpts:
- Gesner and Williams: the Canadians who launched the petroleum industry.
- The Governor General and the 40-year frustrated search for a fortune in oil.
- How Ottawa engineered a global uranium cartel.
- Trade wars: 140 years of Canadian-American friction.
- Riding the oil roller coaster. (June 18, 2008: the world oil price is more than $140
a barrel and some analysts predict it will climb to $200. In a National Post article that
day, I predicted a big drop in oil prices. Less than three months later, the price had fallen
more than 30%).
- When Calgarians used oil stocks for wallpaper.
- and more
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United States
Dates |General
| Areas and Fields | Companies
and Organizations | Canada
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| Dates |
The History
of the Oil Industry from the San
Joaquin Geological Society |
| History of Geology |
The Geological Society
of America, History of Geology Division |
| Significant Moments |
Petroleum
industry's most significant moments during the 20th century -
by the Western States Petroleum Association |
General |
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| Petroleum History Websites in USA |
An index to Early
Petroleum History Sites maintained by Blake Malkamaki |
| Petroleum History Institute |
Petroleum History Institute in Oil City PA |
| Nitroglycerin |
The Tallini
Tales of Destruction - an absolutely amazing collection of stories
about nitroglycerin use in the oilfields, hosted by Analog Services,
Inc. of Kentucky |
| American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming |
The AHC collects, preserves and catalogs manuscripts,
photographs, maps, audio-visual materials, rare books, and artifacts
related to Wyoming and the West, economic geology, the petroleum and
mining industries, transportation, American culture, conservation,
and water resources. |
Areas and Fields |
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| California, West Kern Field |
West Kern
Oil Museum in Taft, California
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Companies and Organizations |
| Key Words |
Title and URL |
| Hunt Oil |
Hunt Oil
history |
| Standard Oil |
The History
of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell |
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