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• Asphalt: Science and Technology (New York and London: Gordon and Breach, 1962), by Edwin J. Barth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Asphalt: Its Composition, Properties, and Uses (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp.; London: Chapman and Hall, c1961), by Ralph N. Traxler (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Coal Pyrolysis (Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier, 1982), by George R. Gavalas (PDF files at Caltech)
• Points on Coal and the Coal Business (Myerstown, PA: Feese and Uhrich, 1887), by Charles Miesse
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• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (based on the second edition, 1866), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML with commentary at eoearth.org)

• The Economic Geology of The Central Coalfield Of Scotland, Area IX: Carluke, Strathaven, And Larkhall, With Braidwood, Netherburn, Auchenheath, Blackwood, And Stonehouse (Edinburgh: Printed under authority of HMSO by Morrison and Gibb, 1921), by L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, Murray Macgregor, and C. H. Dinham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coal Fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington and Greene Counties: Fields of Coking Coal Located in Eastern Greene and Southeastern Washington Counties, Owned and Largely Controlled by J.V. Thompson (c1907), by John W. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Coal-Pyrite Flotation in Concentrated Pulp: A Pilot Plant Study (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8239, 1977), by Kenneth J. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal Exports and Port Development (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Direct Use of Coal: Prospects and Problems of Production and Combustion (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (c2008), by Frank A. Camm, James T. Bartis, and Charles J. Bushman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Assessment of Development and Production Potential of Federal Coal Leases (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Leonardite: A Lignite Byproduct (report of investigations 5611; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by Walter W. Fowkes and Clyde M. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peat and Its Uses, As Fertilizer and Fuel (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1866), by Samuel W. Johnson
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• Hard Truths: Facing the Hard Truths About Energy, A Comprehensive View to 2030 of Global Oil and Natural Gas (2007), by National Petroleum Council (PDF files with commentary at npchardtruthsreport.org)
• Investigation of Toxic Gases from Mexican and Other High-Sulphur Petroleums and Products: Report by the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, to the American Petroleum Institute (Bureau of Mines bulletin #231; Washington: GPO, 1925), by R. R. Sayers, N. A. C. Smith, Arno Carl Fieldner, Claude W. Mitchell, G. W. Jones, W. P. Yant, David D. Stark, S. H. Katz, J. J. Bloomfield, and Walter A. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods for the Determination of Water in Petroleum and its Products (technical paper #25, second edition; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1913), by Irving C. Allen and Walter A. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oil Prospecting, Drilling and Extraction (c1914), by Forest John Swears Sur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amazing Petroleum Industry (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1943), by Vladimir A. Kalichevsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin and Environment of Source Sediments of Petroleum (Houston: American Petroleum Institute, c1932), by Parker D. Trask, contrib. by Harald E. Hammar and Zhaocheng Wu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bioremediation for Marine Oil Spills (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• A Canadian Achievement: The Delivery of Alberta Crude Oil at Sarnia, Ontario, April 24th, 1951 (1951), by Imperial Oil Limited (HTML at peel.library.ualberta.ca)

• A Canadian Achievement: The Delivery of Alberta Crude Oil at Sarnia, Ontario, April 24th, 1951 (1951), by Imperial Oil Limited (HTML at peel.library.ualberta.ca)

• Do or Die (partial serial archives)

• Spills of Nonfloating Oils: Risk and Response, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Geology of Petroleum (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1956), by A. I. Levorsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structural Geology for Petroleum Geologists (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955), by William L. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (partial serial archives)

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Sketches in Crude-Oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum Development in All Parts of the Globe (Harrisburg: The author, 1896), by John J. McLaurin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Illinois Petroleum (partial serial archives)

• Oil and Gas Science and Technology / Revue d'IFP Energies Nouvelles (articles in English and French) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (partial serial archives)
• Petroleum Age (partial serial archives)

• ASTM-IP Petroleum Measurement Tables (American edition with US measurement units, ASTM D 1250; Philadelphia: American Society for Testing Materials, 1952), by American Society for Testing Materials and Institute of Petroleum (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Analytical Distillation of Petroleum and its Products (Bureau of Mines bulletin #207; Washington: GPO, 1922), by E. W. Dean, H. H. Hill, N. A. C. Smith, and Walter A. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consumption of the Lungs and Kindred Diseases, Treated and Cured by Kerosene (Tulsa, OK: C. O. Frye, c1914), by Charles Oscar Frye (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Transportation by Tankers: An Analysis of Marine Pollution and Safety Measures (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-Five Years of Oil Transport: The Evolution of the Tank Steamer (London and Tonbridge: Printed by Bradbury, Agnew, and Co., 1907), by James Dodds Henry
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Oil Prospecting, Drilling and Extraction (c1914), by Forest John Swears Sur (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (2004), by Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Nathan J. Glasgow (PDF with commentary at oilendgame.com)

• Hard Truths: Facing the Hard Truths About Energy, A Comprehensive View to 2030 of Global Oil and Natural Gas (2007), by National Petroleum Council (PDF files with commentary at npchardtruthsreport.org)

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