| Archives
Newsletters |
- all Archives newsletters, back to the first in 1987 |
|
Petroleum History Bibliography
Updated June 8, 2022
(Now 1247 pages) |
- by Doug Cass who welcomes
additions and comments
- 1247 pages, 6.6 meg PDF
- archival records
- books
- theses
- articles
- company histories
- biographies and autobiographies
- fiction, drama, poetry and music
- humour
- film, audio, video and exhibitions
- book and film reviews
- author index
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| Oral History Projects |
1 interview 2013 in Ongoing Oral History Project
117 interviews in Phase III 2014 Oil Sands
84 interviews in Phase II 2004 - including CSEG and CSPG interviews
223 interviews in Phase I, 1981 - 1985
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| Old Companies |
Research about old oil and gas companies that we have already researched in response to queries from people using our website. |
| Peter McKenzie-Brown's blog |
Past PHS Director, Peter McKenzie-Brown's blog which includes articles he has written on petroleum history. |
| Seismic images circa 1950s |
Harding collection of seismic films and photos from the 1950s and 1960s |
| Canada's First Oil Gusher |
The Shaw Investigation:
A Review of Sources to Determine Who Drilled Canada’s First Oil Gusher |
| BP and Amoco |
A Tale of Two Leaders -
Sir John Browne and Bill McCaffrey
by Peter McKenzie Brown, presented to BP Amoco annuitants in 2018 |
The Suncor Story by
Peter McKenzie‐Brown
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Presented September 11, 2017 at the Book Launch for Peter McKenzie-Brown's book
Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta’s oil sands |
| Timeline – Global Petroleum Industry |
By Clinton Tippett, President of the Petroleum History Society
Prepared for the June 2014 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary |
| Remembering a Rich History at Turner Valley |
By David Finch and Clint Tippett in May 2014 AAPG Explorer |
1947 Film - The Story of Oil
(about Turner Valley) |
Thanks to BOEreport.com |
| Oil Sands 101 Lecture Notes |
Notes from series of 6 lectures presented by the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners and the Petroleum History Society in early 2013. |
| 75 Years of Alberta Energy Regulation |
Steward: 75 Years of Alberta Energy Regulation
by Gordon Jaremko
© 2013 by the Energy Resources Conservation Board; 179 pages;
Download the book at www.aer.ca/documents/about-us/Steward_Ebook.pdf |
| 2008 Celebration |
2008 Celebration of First Commercial Oil Well in Oil Springs ON - external site about events (PDF) |
| Chronologies of Events Before Leduc |
Thanks to Frank Dabbs for permission to reprint his chronologies of:
- Alberta Petroleum Exploration and Discovery 1875-1947
- Alberta Petroleum Public Policy Milestones 1670-1945
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| Canadian Beginnings |
1846-1870 the contributions of Abraham Gesner, Charles Nelson Tripp, James Miller Williams, and Hugh Nixon Shaw to the modern petroleum era. |
| Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery |
1883 discovery at Langevin Siding (now Alderson) by Micky Gulless |
| Walking Tour - Downtown Calgary |
Petroleum history walking tour of downtown Calgary
- including handout from July 2007 event |
| Historical Posters for 2004 CSEG Convention |
10 posters on a variety of topics |
| PHS Speakers |
People who have made presentations to
the Petroleum History Society with links to issue where summarized in Archives newsletters. |
| PHS Speeches |
Presentation slides, audio, or text versions of speeches and presentations made to PHS meetings on historical topics. |
| Stories |
Petroleum history stories |
| Oral History Projects |
- reports on the Oral History Projects including who was interviewed. |
| Petroleum History Society Awards |
- award winners |
| 6 historical events |
6 events in the first 100 years of Canada's petroleum industry |
Petroleum Collection
at the Glenbow |
An overview of some of the petroleum records housed at the Glenbow
Archives and Library, now at the University of Calgary. |
| Petroleum History Books |
Petroleum history books
and Calgary sources |
| Links to related websites |
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| Date added |
Story |
| April 2021 |
Eugene Coste in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
| Dec.2020 |
The Killing of King Christian D-18 well blowout - .MPG file 1.3 gigabytes |
Sept.2017
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The Suncor Story - 7 pages 1 meg PDF
Presented by Peter McKenzie-Brown on September 11, 2017 at the Book Launch for his book
Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta’s oil sands |
| Aug.2016 |
Underground East - 1953 film
The PHS sponsored digitizing this 16-minute film about the construction of the 1129-mile pipeline from Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin in 1950 in only 150 days. |
| Feb.2016 |
CBC News Edmonton story: Oilsands veteran Jack Avery remembers the early days |
| June 2015 |
Politics and the Federal Principle in Canada: Newfoundland Offshore Oil Development and the Quest for Political Stability and Economic Justice
by Raymond Blake
in The Canadian Historical Review Volume 96, Issue 1 |
| April 2010 |
Rhetoric and Reality: Albertans and Their Oil Industry Under Peter Lougheed
By Erik Lizée
Masters Thesis - University of Alberta
143-page PDF
1.7 meg |
| November 2009 |
From North to South: How Norman Wells led to Leduc
by Peter McKenzie-Brown, PHS Director
(link takes you to his blog "Language Matters")
Presented to The International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, August 11, 2009 |
| September 2008 |
Gesner and Williams: two Canadians who launched the world's petroleum industry - by Earle Gray, PHS Member
(reproduced with the author's permission) 12-page PDF, 149k |
| September 2005 |
Petroleum History Society posters for Great Explorations: Canada and Beyond, the 2004 Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists National Convention. |
| May 2005 |
Canadian Beginnings - 1846-1870 the contributions of Abraham Gesner, Charles Nelson Tripp, James Miller Williams, and Hugh Nixon Shaw to the modern petroleum era. |
| December 2004 |
Photos from the ceremony unveiling the plaque to commemorate the oil boom town of Little Chicago/ Royalties in southern Alberta |
| January 2003 |
Stories from
the 75-year history of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist
by David Finch, Historian (link no longer available)
- webcast of December 12/02 luncheon presentation to the CSPG via
the CSPG website
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| April 2002 |
Alberta's First Natural Gas Discovery
by Micky Gulless |
| October 2001 |
Six Historical Events in the First 100 Years
of Canada's Petroleum Industry
commemorated by the PHS with a set of collector pins |
