Volume 127
Petroleum Development and Technology 1938
Petroleum Division Papers and Discussions Presented before the Division at Meetings Held at Los Angeles, October 1, 1937; Oklahoma City, October 7-9, 1937; New York, February 14-18, 1938
Title Page
Contents
Officers of the Institute
Foreword – M. Albertson
Plans of the Petroleum Division for 1938 – G. B. Corless
Officers and Committees of the Petroleum Division
Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal
Photography of Henry L. Doherty, Anthony F. Lucas Medalist

PAPERS:

Chapter I. Production Engineering

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Spacing of Oil Wells Lyndon L. Foley
Gas Caps, Their Determination and Significance (With Discussion) P. P. Gregory
Excessive Pressures and Pressure Variations with Depth of Petroleum Reservoirs in the Gulf Coaat Region of Texas and Louisiana (With Discussion) C. E. Cannon and R. C. Craze
Pressure Drilling Operations at Kettleman Hills, and Effect on Initial Production Rates (With Discussion) Read Winterburn
Desalting Crude Oils Gustav Egloff, Edwin F. Nelson, C. D. Maxutov and Charles Wirth III
A Quarter Century of Progress in Petroleum Engineering (See Mining and Metallurgy, December 1937) S. C. Herold
Heat Utilization in Dehydrator Plant (See Oil Weekly, October 11, 1937) R. W. French
Some Considerations in Selection and Installation of Gravel Pack for Oil Wells (See Petroleum Technology, August 1938) C. J. Coberly and E. M. Wagner

Chapter II. Review of Notable New California Fields

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The Wilmington Oil Field (With Discussion) E. J. Bartosh
El Segundo Oil Field, California L. E. Porter
Ten Section Field, Kern County, California H. T. Wyatt and A. S. Baptie

Chapter III. Engineering Research

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Origin of Petroleum (With Discussion) E. Beril
Effect of Pressure upon Viscosity of Methane and Two Natural Gases B. H. Sage and W. N. Lacey
Pressure Distribution in Oil and Gas Reservoirs by Membrane Analogy (With Discussion) Aaron J. Miles and Eugene A. Stepenson
Relation of Gas-well Spacing to Ultimate Recovery (With Discussion) D. T. MacRoberts
Application of Vaporization Equilibrium Constants to Production Engineering Problems (With Discussion) Donald L. Katz
Calculation of Equilibria in Hydrocarbon Mixtures Stuart E. Buckley
Behavior of Contents of High-pressure Reservoirs (With Discussion) Eugene A. Stephenson
Connate Water in Oil and Gas Sands (With Discussion) Ralph J. Schilthis
Influence of Connate Water on Permeability of Sands to Oil Eldon N. Dunlap
Flow of Oil-gas Mixtures through Unconsolidated Sand L. S. Reid and R. L. Hunntington
Recent Advances in Knowledge of the Colloidal Properties of Clay Suspensions and Gels Charles E. Reed
Intensive Weighting of Petroleum Drilling Muds with Galena (With Discussion) H. E. Gross
Effect of Temperature on Gel Strength of Some Gulf Coast Drilling Muds (See Petroleum Technology, August 1938) B. I. Routh and B. C. Craft

Chapter IV. Petroleum Economics

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An Equilibrium Theory of Profation Joseph E. Pogue
What Are the Uneconomic Uses of Petroleum? John D. Gill and E. T. Knight
Market Behavior of Oil Shares from 1932 to 1937 Norman D. Fitzgerald
World Consumption of Petroleum Products and Related Fuels (With Discussion) V. R. Garflas, R. V. Whetshel and J. W, Ristori
World Consumption of Petroleum Products and Related Fuels for Military Purposes V. R. Garfias, R. V. Whetsel and J. W. Ristori

Chapter V. Production

TITLE AUTHOR
Introduction James Terry Duce, Vice-Chairman

Domestic

TITLE AUTHOR
Oil and Gas Development in South Arkansas in 1937 H. K. Shearer and W. B. Weeks
Developments in the California Oil Industry during in the Year 1937 V. H. Wilhelm
Oil and Gas Development in Colorado in 1937 C. E. Shoenfelt
Oil and Gas Development Illinois in 1937 Alfred H. Bell
Oil and Gas Developments in Indiana in 1937 Ralph E. Esarey and M. M. Fidlar
Kansas Oil and Gas During 1937 W. A. Ver Wiebe and E. G. Dahlgren
Oil and Gas Development in Kentucky in 1937 C. D. Hunter, I. B. Browning and N. W. Shiarella
Louisiana:  
Oil and Gas Development in North Louisiana in 1937 H. K. Shearer
Oil and Gas Development in South Louisiana in 1937 Benjamin C. Craft
Oil and Gas in Michigan during 1937 Theron Wasson
Oil and Gas Development in Mississippi during 1937 Henry N. Toler
Development of Oil and Gas in Missouri in 1937 Frank C. Greene
Oil and Gas Development in Montana for 1937 Eugene S. Perry
Oil and Gas Development in New Mexico in 1937 E. H. Wells and A. Andreas
Oil and Gas in New York in 1937 D. H. Newland and C. A. Hartnagel
Oil and Gas Development in Ohio for 1937 Dewitt T. Ring
Petroleum Development in Oklahoma in 1937 H. E. Rorschach
Pennsylvania:  
Oil and Gas Development in North and Central Pennsylvania during 1937 Arthur C. Simmons
Oil and Gas Development in South Pennsylvania during 1937 John T. Galey
Oil and Gas Development in Tennessee in 1937 Kendall E. Born
Texas:  
Development and Production in the East Texas District Wallace Ralston
Oil and Gas Production on the Texas Gulf Coast during 1937 E. P. Haqyes and J. K. Butler
Oil and Gas Development and Production in North Texas for the year 1937 H. B. Fuqua and B. E. Thompson
Oil and Gas in North Central Texas in 1937 H. W. Imholz
Oil and Gas Development in the Texas Panhandle for the year 1937 Henry Rogatz
Development along Fault of South Central Texas in 1937 Joseph M. Dawson
Oil and Gas Development in South Texas during 1937 M. T. Halbouty
West Texas Oil Development in 1937 P. P. Gregory, B. B. Zavoico and J.G. H. Crump
Oil and Gas Development in Utah in 1937 C. E. Shoenfelt
Oil and Gas Developments in West Virginia during 1937 David B. Reger
Oil Development and Production in Wyoming in 1937 E. W. Krampert

Chapter V. Production

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Petroleum Development in Argentina during 1937 Mario L. Villa
Oil Prospecting in Australia during 1936-37 W. G. Woolnough
Petroleum Developments in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia Brandon H. Grove
Petroleum in Bahrein Island in 1937  
Development of the Petroleum Industry in Bolivia in 1937 Jorge Munoz Reyes and Guillermo
Oil-field Development in Burma and India L. Dudley Stamp
Petroleum and Natural Gas in Canada during 1937 G. S. Hume
Petroleum Developments in Columbia during 1937 O. C. Wheeler
Petroleum Production in Cuba in 1937 Roy E. Dickerson
Production of Oil in Egypt in 1937  
Petroleum Research in France and in the French Colonies during 1937 H. De Cizancourt
Petroleum Developments in Germany during 1937 Walter Kauenhowen
Search for Oil in Great Britain A. H. Taitt
India - See Burma  
Petroleum and Gas in Iran during 1937  
Oil and Gas Production in Iraq during 1937 B. B. Cox
Petroleum Development in Mexico during 1937 V. R. Garfias and A. C. Fernandez
Oil and Gas Production in the Netherlands, Indies, Sarawak and Brunei  
Petroleum Developments in Peru during 1937 Oliver B. Hopkins
Oil and Gas Production in Poland during 1937 Charles Bohdanowicz
Oil and Gas in Rumania  
Russian Oil Industry in 1937 Basil B. Zavoico
Petroleum and Gas in Trinidad during 1937  
Petroleum Development in Venezuela during 1937 B. N. Zavoico, C. C.. McDermond and Others

Chapter VI. Refining

TITLE AUTHOR
Review of Refinery Engineering for 1937 Walter Miller

INDEX

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Index