Investigation of Petroleum Resources
Congressional records
By: Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources Date: 1945
Source: Investigation of Petroleum Resources. Hearings Before a Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946, 1, 6, 7, 8, 33, 35–36, 66, 69, 94, 118–19, 161, 197, 275, 285, 319, 324, 502.
About the Author: This special committee of the U.S. Senate investigated the condition of U.S. petroleum reserves and the likely future petroleum needs of the United States in June 1945. A variety of experts representing petroleum corporations and experts from the American oil industry testified before the committee.
Introduction
The world's first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859—an event that set in motion the nearly century-long American...
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