This fascinating oil business /

Ball, Max W. 1885-1954

This fascinating oil business / by Max W. Ball; illustrations by Jack Housez, maps by Sven W. Reims and C.G. Mundy. - Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1940. - 420 pages : illlustrations (incl. maps) ; 22 cm.

Maps on lining-papers.

Includes Index.

What is oil? -- Meet the oil men --Picking the place to drill --Picking the place to drill in practice -- Acquiring the right to drill
Drilling the well -- Drilling another well -- Producing the oil-the principles of it -- Producing the oil-the mechanics of it-- Transporting the oil --Refining the oil-the chemistry of it
Refining the oil-the efining the oil-the continued -- Refining the oil-specifications and desing -- Refining the oil-the refinery --
Disposing of the products -- New worlds to conquer -- New worlds to conquer -- Oil in the old world -- Oil in the new world.


Petroleum industry and trade.
Industria y comercio del petróleo
Industria del petróleo

TN 870 / B187f 1940