Each year since 1945 Oil & Gas Journal has published separately for its readers an index of the previous year's articles. Until the coming of computers, it was the only practical way to pinpoint and retrieve information.
Below is a sampling of headlines from 1945. The 2003 index and the one from 1945 have some surprising similarities. Check the list and see how things have changed in 59 years—and how they have stayed the same.
Drilling, production
Phillips testing world's deepest well.
Horizontal drilling restores well which had been abandoned 17 years.
Wells slanted out 3,700 ft tap under-ocean pool.
Five fields with 51 wells in Iran produce 365,000 bbl of crude daily.
New diesel-powered rig incorporates advances in automatic control.
Saudi Arabian petroleum operations are rapidly reaching major proportions.
Power-driven tong is new tool for uniform, efficient tubing jobs.
Triple-zone completions in eastern Venezuela.
Automatic well controls and two-stage separation have quick payout.
Site chosen for oil shale demonstration plant.
Bahrein Island produces 20,000 bbl and refines 70,000 bbl per day.
Water invasion controlled by gas injection in Bahrein Island operations.
Petroleum reserves of the world, 50 billion bbl.
Automatic tank-battery switching method saves time, mileage, and gas waste.
Refining
Hydrogenation-dehydrogenation, aromatization catalysts important to refining technolgy.
Spherical catalyst may reduce gasoline cost.
Petroleum industry has become largest producer of chemicals.
Simplified catalytic cracking process meets requirements of smaller refiners.
Finding material defects by sound waves.
Water-alcohol injection for motor vehicles proposed.
Telemetering—the modern control tool.
Only production in Egypt comes from two fields on Suez Gulf shores.
Low-pressure carbon dioxide provides protection against refinery fire hazards.
Fischer-Tropsch commercial process announced by Kellogg.
Pipelines
Corrosion inhibitor promises huge returns.
Pumping various products through the same pipeline system.
Construction program under way in Iraq will triple present crude output.
Technique for determining installation of cathodic units.
Hydraulic testing of a crude oil pipeline system.
Aerial patrol of lines has many advantages.
'Operation Pluto' fed oil to Allied armies in Europe
Huge tanker fleet should stimulate postwar petroleum export trade.
Gulf's 490-mile loops to cost $7,000,000.
Wartime tanker job covered 525 vessels.
Russia orders compressors for natural gas pipeline.
Natural gas
Panhandle Eastern to sell gas in Canada.
Wider rural use of LPG predicted
Plans made for Texas-California gas line.
Corrosion-resisting plastic material applied to oil field equipment in place.
Bureau of Mines starts world's largest helium storage.
Instrumentation—a new principle of measurement.
Exploration
Airplanes and submarines may be used in search for oil.
Extreme precautions taken in drilling well in downtown Los Angeles.
Drilling suspended at 13,034 ft on South America's deepest test.
Plans under way to make Qatar a major source of petroleum.
Role of stratigraphy in oil discovery.
Seismic fleet departs on 1,500 mile journey to Bahamas.
General news
Interests of petroleum and natural-gas industries inseparable.
The Middle East—its present and future.
Government action needed to boost production, Congress told.
House committee told government has no claim to coastal oil deposits.
US claims oil and mineral rights in continental shelf.
Deferment of 3,000 workers in oil industry granted.
Future of the industry in the hands of the chemist.
Petroleum industry helped to develop atomic bomb.
Grave dangers seen in 'world oil cartel.'
Combination stations and stores seen for postwar merchandising.
Glimpses of today
As you can see, there were glimpses back in 1945 of where our industry is today. So keep reading. You can be sure that much of what you find in OGJ this year will point toward the industry focus generations from now.
