The Legal Position of Upstream Petroleum Data: A Geologist's Point of View
Article from: OGEL 2 (2004), in Economic and Commercial Context for Oil, Gas and Energy Law
Introduction
The early search for oil was driven by the location and frequency of surface seepages of oil and gas, manifestations in the evocative French word. Tar sands were important too. Some early Swedish oil miners drove tunnels into the tar sands to be found in that country and produced oil from the drippings that resulted (Owen, 1975). The 'oil springs' and the mud volcanoes on the Aspheron peninsula in Azerbaijan had been known for thousands of years and so it is not surprising that our modern oil industry began there in the 1840s. The first lesson that we must draw from these remarks is that ...