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Author Mount, Houston Faust, II, 1974- author.

Title Oilfield revolutionary : the career of Everette Lee DeGolyer / Houston Faust Mount II
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; number twenty-three
Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 23.
Contents Introduction: Prospector -- Student -- Geologist -- Executive -- Technologist -- Entrepreneur -- Scholar -- Technocrat -- Geopolitician -- Sage -- Epilogue: Legend
Summary Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats-and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important business executive. DeGolyer left his stamp on oil exploration and his name on a number of philanthropic institutions, including the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. This account of DeGolyer's life, at once readable and yet authoritative, covers the period from his training with the Uni
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject DeGolyer, E. (Everette), 1886-1956.
SUBJECT DeGolyer, E. (Everette), 1886-1956
DeGolyer, E. (Everette), 1886-1956 fast
Subject Petroleum geologists -- United States -- Biography
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Philanthropists -- Texas -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
NATURE -- Rocks & Minerals.
Businessmen
Petroleum geologists
Petroleum industry and trade
Philanthropists
SUBJECT Dallas (Tex.) -- Biography
Subject Texas
Texas -- Dallas
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781623492243
1623492246