Resources
Archival Resources
U.S. National Archives, Records of the Petroleum Administrative Board
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/232.html
U.S. National Archives, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/048.html
U.S. National Archives, General Records of the Department of Energy
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/434.html
U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/057.html
U.S. National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/049.html
U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Petroleum Administrator for War
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/253.html
U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Fuel Administration
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/067.html
American Energy History Collection, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/energy_natural_resources.php
University of Houston, Houston History Archives
http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/classifications&id=3
Houston Metropolitan Research Center
http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/hmrc/index.html
Alaska Digital Archives, University of Alaska
http://vilda.alaska.edu/
American Heritage Center, Economic Geology Collections
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/by-subject/geology.html
University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections
http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/petroleum/
Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, History of Science and Geology Collections
http://smu.edu/cul/degolyer/collections.htm
Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines
http://library.mines.edu/About_the_Library/Library_Collections
Stanford University, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, California Oil Collection, 1905-1914
http://findingaids.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=ead/mss/m0078.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;brand=default
Georgetown University, Aramco History Project, Joseph A. Mahon Papers
http://gulib.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl185.htm
University of Colorado-Boulder, Archives, Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers (OCAW) International Union records
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/genealogy.htm
University of Texas, OCAW Local 288
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00015/arl-00015.html
Oral Histories
University of Houston, Houston History Project Oral Histories
http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=231
University of Texas, Oral Histories of the Texas Oil Industry
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00282/cah-00282.html
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster
http://www.pwsrcac.org/outreach/oralhistory.html
University of North Carolina, Center for the Study of the American South, Documenting the Gulf Oil Spill
http://oilspillstories.tumblr.com/
Petroleum History Society (Canada), Petroleum Industry Oral History Projects
http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/oralhistory/index.html
Natural Resources Defense Council, Oral Histories of Gulf Life After BP
http://www.good.is/post/nrdc-and-storycorps-bring-you-oral-histories-of-gulf-life-after-bp/
British National Library and University of Aberdeen, Lives in the Oil Industry, Oral History of the UK North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~wad009/oralhistory/index.shtml
Columbia Center for Oral History, Benedum and the Oil Industry Project Oral Histories
http://oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_4072325
Bancroft Library, American Perspectives of Aramco, Oral History Transcript
http://www.archive.org/details/aramcooilproduc00hickrich
Louisiana State University Special Collections, T. Harry Williams Center for Oil History, The History of Standard Oil in Baton Rouge
http://oralhistory.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2009/05/04/the-history-of-standard-oil-in-baton-rouge/
Center for the American West, Oral Histories of Secretaries of the Interior
http://centerwest.org/projects/interior/inside-interior/
California State Archives Oral History Program
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/subjectarea/pol_gov/ca_states_archives.html
California State University Long Beach Oral Histories
http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/history/primary-sources/oral-history/
Government Resources
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA)
http://www.eia.gov/
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Oil & Natural Gas
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/oilgas/
U.S. Department of Energy, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/
National Petroleum Council (NPC)
http://www.npc.org/
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
http://boem.gov/
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)
http://bsee.gov/
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html
U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/
U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
http://www.ferc.gov/
U.S. Library of Congress, Business Reference Services, The Oil and Gas Industry
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/BERA/issue5/issue5_main.html
The Railroad Commission of Texas
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/
State of Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
http://dnr.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&pid=46&ngid=4
State of Oklahoma Corporation Commission
http://www.occ.state.ok.us/
State of California Department of Conservation
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/Index/Pages/Index.aspx
California Coastal Commission
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/
California Energy Commission
http://www.energy.ca.gov/
State of Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/index.aspx
Public History Resources
Oil at 150
http://www.oil150.com/
Paleontological Research Institute, The World of Oil
http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/index.html
Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online
International Directory of Oil Museums (includes all listed below plus others)
http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/museums_world.html
Offshore Energy Center (Galveston, TX)
http://www.oceanstaroec.com
East Texas Oil Museum (Kilgore, TX)
http://www.easttexasoilmuseum.com
Permian Basin Oil Museum (Midland, TX)
http://www.petroleummuseum.org/index.html
Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Oil Museum (Beaumont, TX)
http://www.spindletop.org/
Daily Spindletop Diary from the Galveston Daily News
http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/spindlet1.htm
Central Texas Oil Patch Museum (Luling, TX)
http://www.oilmuseum.org/Welcome.html
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Weiss Energy Hall (Houston, TX)
http://www.hmns.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114&Itemid=122
Petroleum History Institute (Oil City, PA)
http://www.petroleumhistory.org/
Barbara Morgan Harvey Center for the Study of Oil Heritage (Oil City, PA)
http://web.clarion.edu/BMHarveyCenter/HCWBuild/Harvey_Center_Web_Site/About_Barbara_Morgan_Harvey.html
Drake Oil Well Museum (Titusville, PA)
http://www.drakewell.org/
Pumping Jack Museum (Emlenton, PA)
http://www.hypercision.com/museum/
Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum (Oil City, LA)
http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/242/Default.aspx
International Petroleum Museum & Exposition (Morgan City, LA)
http://www.rigmuseum.com/
Healdton Oil Museum, Oklahoma (Headlton, OK)
http://www.okhistory.org/outreach/affiliates/healdtonoil.html
Marland Oil Museum, Oklahoma (Ponca City, OK)
http://www.marlandmansion.com/Pages/mmaroil.html
Phillips Petroleum Company Museum (Bartlesville, OK)
http://www.phillips66museum.com/EN/Pages/index.aspx
Kern County Museum (Bakersfield, CA)
http://www.kcmuseum.org/blackgold
Olinda Oil Museum and Trail (Brea, CA)
http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/article.cfm?id=940
California Oil Museum (Santa Paula, CA)
http://www.oilmuseum.net/
West Kern Oil Museum (Taft, CA)
http://www.westkern-oilmuseum.org/
Kansas Oil Museum (El Dorado, KS)
http://www.kansasoilmuseum.org/
Pioneer Oil Museum of New York (Bolivar, NY)
http://www.pioneeroilmuseum.com/
H.P. Sears Oil Company, Service Station Museum (Rome, NY)
http://www.hpsearsoil.com/index.htm
Illinois Oilfield Museum (Oblong, IL)
http://www.theonlyoblong.com/oil_field/index.html
Oil and Gas Museum (Parkersburg, WV)
http://oilandgasmuseum.com/Pages/oilandgashome.html
Northwoods Petroleum Museum (Three Lakes, WI)
http://northwoodspetroleummuseum.org/
PBS, Rockefellers’ Mark on America Interactive Map
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/maps/index.html#
Industry Resources>
American Petroleum Institute (API)
http://www.api.org/
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
http://www.aapg.org/
Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Virtual Geoscience Center
http://www2.mssu.edu/seg-vm/about_us.html
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
http://www.spe.org/about/history.php
American Geosciences Institute
http://www.agiweb.org/
Houston Geological Society
http://www.hgs.org/
Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA)
http://www.ipaa.org/
Oil & Gas Historical Society (IPAA)
http://aoghs.org/
OnePetro Database
http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/app/search.do
Petroleum Abstracts (PA), University of Tulsa
http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/
International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC)
http://www.iadc.org/
International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC)
http://www.iagc.org/
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)
http://www.aipn.org/
American Association of Petroleum Landmen (AAPL)
http://www.landman.org/wcm/aapl/
Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO)
http://www.tipro.org/
Oklahoma Oil and Natural Gas Producers and Royalty Owners (OERB)
http://www.oerb.com/
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
http://www.otcnet.org/
Offshore Operators Committee (OOC)
http://www.offshoreoperators.com/
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
http://www.opec.org
International Energy Association (IEA)
http://www.iea.org/
Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary
http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Default.cfm
Oil and Gas Online
http://www.oilandgasonline.com/
PetroPlaza
http://www.oilandgasonline.com/
University Energy Institutes
Louisiana State University, Center for Energy Studies (CES)
http://www.enrg.lsu.edu/
Oxford Energy Institute
http://www.oxfordenergy.org/
University of Texas at Austin, Energy Institute
http://www.energy.utexas.edu/
Texas A&M Energy Institute
http://www.energyengineering.org/
University of Houston, UH Energy
http://www.uh.edu/uh-energy/index.php
University of Houston, Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI)
http://www.bauer.uh.edu/gemi/
University of Houston, The Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Center (EENR)
http://www.law.uh.edu/eenrcenter/homepage.asp
MIT Energy Initiative
http://web.mit.edu/mitei/
Rice University, Baker Institute Energy Forum
http://www.rice.edu/energy/
University of California-Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group
http://erg.berkeley.edu/
Tulane University, Energy Institute
http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/energy/
Harvard University, The Future of Energy
http://energy.harvard.edu/
University of Dundee, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/
Company/Industry Histories Online
Exxon-Mobil
http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/history/about_who_history.aspx
Shell
http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell/who_we_are/our_history/the_beginnings/
Chevron
http://www.chevron.com/about/leadership/history/
BP
http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=10&contentId=7036819
ConocoPhillips
http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/about/who_we_are/history/Pages/index.aspx
Marathon Oil
http://www.marathonoil.com/About_Us/History/
Gulf Oil
http://gulfoil.com/AboutGulf/CompanyHistory.aspx
Sunoco
http://www.sunocoinc.com/site/thecompany/ourhistory/
Apache
http://www.apachecorp.com/About_Apache/History/index.aspx
Hunt Oil
http://www.huntoil.com/history.asp
Hess Oil
http://www.hess.com/company/history/default.aspx
BHP Billiton
http://www.bhpbilliton.com/home/aboutus/ourcompany/Pages/ourHistory.aspx
Valero
http://www.valero.com/OurBusiness/Pages/CompanyHistory.aspx
Kuwait Oil Company
http://www.kockw.com/pages/About%20KOC/KOCHistory.aspx?sm=2
National Iranian Oil Company
http://www.nioc.ir/Portal/Home/Default.aspx?CategoryID=f398bd54-e170-44e9-a841-710c6c92b3a0&TabNo=8
Petrobras
http://www.petrobras.com.br/en/about-us/our-history/
PEMEX
http://www.pemex.com/index.cfm?action=content§ionID=112&catID=11682
Gazprom
http://www.gazprom.com/about/history/
Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
http://www.lmoga.com/history.html
National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), History of Gasoline Retailing
http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/Resources/campaigns/GasPrices_2011/Pages/100PlusYearsGasolineRetailing.aspx
Texas Railroad Commission
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/about/history/index.php
Funding Universe Company Histories
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/
Refinery Histories Online
Wood River Refinery, Wood River, IL
http://www.wrrhm.org/
Port Arthur Refinery, Port Arthur, TX
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/96/58620/
Norco Refinery, Norco, LA
http://www.motivaenterprises.com/home/content/motiva/motiva_business/norco/
Miscellaneous News Sources/NGOs/Think Tanks/Consultants/Blogs
Platt’s Oilgram News
http://www.platts.com/Oil/Resources/Useful%20Links
The Oil and Gas Journal
http://www.ogj.com/index.html
Energy Intelligence
http://www.energyintel.com/pages/non-subscriber.aspx
Petroleum Economist
http://www.petroleum-economist.com/
World Oil
http://www.worldoil.com/
UpstreamOnline.com
http://www.upstreamonline.com/
AAPG Explorer
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/
Journal of Petroleum Technology Online
http://www.spe.org/spe-app/spe/jpt/index.htm
Offshore Magazine
http://www.offshore-mag.com/index.html
Energy Tribune
http://www.energytribune.com/index.cfm
Oil.Com
http://oil.com/
PFC Energy
http://www.pfcenergy.com/
IHS CERA
http://www.ihs.com/products/cera/index.aspx
Center for Global Energy Studies
http://www.cges.co.uk/
H-Energy
http://www.h-net.org/~energy/
Resources for the Future
http://www.rff.org/Pages/default.aspx
The Oil Drum
http://www.theoildrum.com/
Energy Bulletin
http://www.energybulletin.net/
The New Fuelist
http://www.newfuelist.com/
Fuel Fix
http://fuelfix.com/
The Encyclopedia of Earth
http://www.eoearth.org/topics/view/49463/
Institute for Energy Research
http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/
Global Witness
http://www.globalwitness.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council - Energy
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/default.asp
Environmental Defense Fund - Climate
http://www.edf.org/climate
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
http://www.labucketbrigade.org/
Online Videos
U.S. Bureau of Mines, “The Story of Gasoline” (1934)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psBElGdapd0
Oil Industry Information Committee, “Crossroads – USA” (1952)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1TEFVJODc
API, “American Frontier (1953), 2 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lloDJlu7xo
API, “Destination Earth” (1956)
http://archive.org/details/Destinat1956
API, “Story of Oil and Gas”
http://www.api.org/story/index.html
U.S. Bureau of Mines, “The Story of Gasoline” (1958), 3 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kNNpNjDk0g
“The History of Oil”, 5 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_52IcYY8bQ
Tyler Priest, “The History of Offshore Oil & Gas in the United States” (2010), 2 Parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucG3i0pnLbc
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (2010)
http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/media/
Miscellaneous Oil Professionals/Oil Folklore/Oil Collectors Web sites
A Barrel Full - Oil & Gas Blog and Wiki
http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/home
Primarily Petroliana
http://www.oldgas.com
Roughneck City
http://www.roughneckcity.com/Oilfield_Caps.html
Louisiana’s Living Traditions
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_oilfield_lore.html
Oil Stories and Oil Histories
http://oilstorieshistories.blogspot.com/
Oil Rig Disasters
http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/index.htm
Oil Trash.com
http://www.oiltrash.com/index2.cfm?module=public/templates&page=index_welcome.cfm
Gasoline: A Love Story
http://gasolinealovestory.com/
Photos and Art
U.S. Library of Congress Oil and Petroleum Photos
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan/search/?q=Oil%20Petroleum&fi=subject&va=exact&co=pan
Story Sloane Gallery (Houston, TX)
http://www.historicphotography.com/vintage_oil__men_in_the_field.htm
Oil History Photo Album
http://little-mountain.com/oilwell/pages/photoalbum.html
PetroStrategies, Gasoline Station Photos
http://www.petrostrategies.org/Learning_Center/old_gasoline_station_photos.htm
U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/index.html
JoAnn Cowans & Black Gold Prints
http://www.blackgoldprints.com
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Collection
http://photos.orr.noaa.gov/index.htm
Houston Metropolitan Research Center Photo Archives
http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/archives/mss0114.pl
American Heritage Center Digital Collections
http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Petroleum+industry+and+trade+--+Wyoming/Oil+fields+--+Wyoming?sort=RID%2cDescription%2cTitle%2cDate_Original
Dwain Cox Photography – Beaumont’s Historic Past
http://photobox54.smugmug.com/Places/Beaumonts-Historic-Past
Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art, Francine Carraro, Exhibition Organized by The Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Walter Rundell, Jr., Early Texas Oil: A Photographic History, 1866-1936 (Texas A&M University Press, 1977)
Walter Rundell, Jr., Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin (Texas A&M Press, 1982)
Kenny A. Franks, and Paul F. Lambert, Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil, 1901-1946 (Texas A&M Press, 1982)
Standard Oil Photo Collection, University of Louisville
http://http://special.library.louisville.edu/display-collection.asp?ID=223
Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific Collection (California oil photos)
http://www.lapl.org/catalog/photo_collection_overview.html
Music
Music and the Pennsylvania Oil Boom
http://www.oil150.com/assets/music-and-the-pennsylvania-oil-boom.pdf
Woody Guthrie Oil Field Songs
http://www.woodyguthrie.de/k5000.html
Roughneck City, 50+ Oilfield Ballads
http://www.roughneckcity.com/Oilfield_Songs_Music_Player.html
Wes St. Jon, Oil Worker Music
http://www.wesstjon.com/music-cds.html
Joe Specht Research on Oilfield Songs
http://fwbog.com/index.php?page=article&article=168
Popular Songs
Johnny Cash, Roughneck (1963)
Jerry Reed, Crude Oil Blues (1974)
Guy Clark, Desperadoes Waiting for a Train (1975)
Steve Forbert, The Oil Song (1979)
Terri Clark, A Little Gasoline (2000)
Corb Lund, Roughest Neck Around (2003)
Trace Adkins, Missing You (2003)
Tim Hus, Alberta Crude (2004)
Toby Keith, Pump Jack (2007)
James McMurtry, God Bless America (Pat mAcdonald Must Die) (2008)
Trace Adkins, Black Gold (2008)
Steve Forbert, The Oil Song 2010 (2010)
Pearl Jam, Don’t Go/BP Amoco (2010)
Drew Landry, BP Blues (2010)
Feature Films
Black Gold (1928)
The Oil Raider (1934)
Oil For the Lamps of China (1935)
Git Along Little Dogies (1936)
Black Gold (1936)
High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)
Flowing Gold (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Wildcat (1942)
Sin Town (1942)
War of the Wildcats (1943)
The Lone Hand Texan (1947)
Black Gold (1947)
Strike it Rich (1948)
Louisiana Story (1948)
Tulsa (1949)
Double Deal (1950)
Desperadoes of the West (1950)
The Big Gusher (1951)
Superman and the Molemen (1951)
Thunder Bay (1953)
Blowing Wild (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Lucy Gallant (1955)
The Houston Story (1956)
The Magnificent Roughnecks (1956)
Giant (1956)
Oil Town (1961)
Black Gold (1962)
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Hellfighters (1969)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Oklahoma Crude (1973)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Network (1976)
Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1979)
The Formula (1981)
Local Hero (1983)
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Abyss (1989)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Syrianna (2005)
The Deal (2005)
War, Inc. (2008)
There Will Be Blood (2008)