The United States Oil PolicyYale University Press, 1928 - 547 páginas "Published on the William McKean Brown Memorial Publication Fund." Bibliographical "notes" at end of each chapter. |
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Página 280 - For just as sure as the sun shines, and the sum of two and two is four, unless this insane riot of destruction and waste of our fuel resources which has characterized the past century shall be speedily ended, our industrial power and supremacy, will, after a meteorlike existence, revert. before the close of the present century, to those nations that conserve and prize at their proper value their priceless treasures of carbon.
Página 142 - We have made little effort until very recently to do these things. We have been wasteful, careless, and recklessly ignorant. We have abandoned oil fields while a large part of the oil was still in the ground. We have allowed tremendous quantities of gas to waste in the air. We have let water into the oil sands, ruining areas that should have produced hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil.
Página 284 - State can only be obtained under conditions constituting waste, as herein defined, then any person, firm, or corporation having the right to drill into and produce oil from any such common source of supply may take therefrom only such proportion of all crude oil and petroleum that may be produced therefrom, without waste, as the production of the well or wells of any such person, firm, or corporation bears to the total production of such common source of supply.
Página 3 - Countrey upon kine & asses, of which you shall oftentimes meet with foure or five hundred in a company. There is also by the said towne of Bachu another kind of oyle which is white and very precious : and is supposed to be the same that here is called Petroleum.
Página 2 - On the confines toward Georgiue there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred ship-loads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.
Página 9 - In conclusion, gentlemen, it appears to me that there is much ground for encouragement in the belief that your Company have in their possession a raw material from which, by simple and not expensive process, they may manufacture very valuable products.
Página 280 - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is administered by a Board of Award consisting of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Página 7 - The healthful balm, from nature's secret spring, The bloom of health and life to man will bring; As from her depths the magic liquid flows, To calm our sufferings and assuage our woes.
Página 93 - About a mile from this place (the crossing of the road over Sulphur Creek) in a southwest course is a "Tar" or "Oil" spring, covering a surface of several rods of ground. A wagon trail runs within a short distance of it. It is situated in a small hollow, on the left of the wagon trail, at a point where the trail rises to a higher bench of land. When the oil can be obtained free from sand, it is useful to oil wagons. It gives a nice polish to gun stocks, and has proved to be highly beneficial when...
Página 7 - ... miles. * * Sometimes the market in Pittsburgh became very dull, for a flatboatman would occasionally introduce a barrel or two at once, that he had brought down on his raft of lumber or logs. At other times the demand fell off, so that the purchase of a barrel was hazardous.