Collection of twentyfive (25) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of the World from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection is housed inside a Solander Box labelled “Petroleum General” and includes interesting clippings on″Diverse Strategies of State Oil Companies”, interesting offprints, pamphlets and also Development – Sheets with Diagrams sent by BP to W.D.Gill. Included are for example: 1. Robert A. Boulware – “Seismic Exploration For Stratigraphic Traps in Canada” with sheets with revised Figures sent by N.L.Falcon at BP – “Bioherm Reef Developments Shaded” / 2. Anny B. Coury – “Bibliography for a Map of Prospective Hydrocarbon Provinces in the World” (1979) / 3. Peter Fitzgerald Moore (Shell Canada Ltd.) – “The Use of Geological Models in prospecting for Stratigraphic Traps” / 4. Gill’s personal copies of publications from the 7th World Petroleum Congress in Mexico 1967 (With a photographic section of places at which Petroleum Congresses happened before) / 5. Linton, D.L. and Moseley, F. – “The Geological Ages” (1968) / 6. Heinz Beckmann – “Modern Methods of Pay Evaluation in Oil and Gasfields” (1964) / 7. Theodore A. Link – “Theory of Transgressive and Regressive Reef (Bioherm) Development and Origin of Oil” (1950) / and many more publications like these.
1950 – c. 1990. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.
These publications were part of the Offprint-collection of english geologist William Daniel Gill (1916–1992).
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