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• Oil well drilling -- Alaska
• Oil well drilling -- Equipment and supplies
• Oil well drilling -- Fiction
• Oil well drilling -- Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.)
• Offshore oil well drilling

• Drilling, Oil well
• Oil well boring
• Petroleum -- Well-boring
• Well drilling, Oil

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

• 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)

• Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater (OTA-O-270; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dime Novels on Early Oil (Sierra Madre, CA: Stagecoach Press, 1951), by Jack D. Rittenhouse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ocee McRae, Texas: A Novel of Passion, Petroleum and Politics in the Pecos River Valley (New York: Exposition Press, c1962), by Ira Lunan Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil in the Sea: Inputs, Fates, and Effects (1985), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (2011), by United States National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)

• Alternatives for Inspecting Outer Continental Shelf Operations (1990), by National Research Council Marine Board (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Cutting Experiments Using a Rotating Water Jet in a Borehole (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8095, 1975), by G. A. Savanick, Thomas E. Ricketts, Peter D. Lohn, and Jacob N. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Well Drilling With Cable Tools (South Milwaukee, WI: Bucyrus-Erie Co., 1958), by Raymond W. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stability, Failure, and Measurements of Boreholes and Other Circular Openings, by U. S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Ocean Margin Drilling: A Technical Memorandum (NTIS order #PB80-198302; 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Water Well Drilling With Cable Tools (South Milwaukee, WI: Bucyrus-Erie Co., 1958), by Raymond W. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in the United States (1978), 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)
• Elements of Oil Reservoir Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1950), by Sylvain J. Pirson (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)

• Elements of Oil Reservoir Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1950), by Sylvain J. Pirson (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Knut-Andreas Lie (PDF at Cambridge University Press)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Rigs-to-Reefs: The Use of Obsolete Petroleum Structures as Artificial Reefs (New Orleans: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, 1987), by Villere Reggio (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (2011), by United States National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Dime Novels on Early Oil (Sierra Madre, CA: Stagecoach Press, 1951), by Jack D. Rittenhouse (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Department of Defense Kuwait Oil Health Fire Risk Assessment (The "Persian Gulf Veterans' Registry") (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Department of Defense Kuwait Oil Health Fire Risk Assessment (The "Persian Gulf Veterans' Registry") (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Booming Mexia in the Roaring 20's (reprinted from the Waco Times-Herald; 1955), by Nanine Simmons (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.