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energy (studies)
This page supplements the note
on benchmarks in the energy and utilities sectors, highlighting
literature on those industries.
It covers -
There
is a broader discussion of the electricity
revolutions, of energy
in the information economy and of utilicoms
elsewhere on this site. The following page
highlights studies on utilities.
overviews
For snapshots of the oil and gas business before domination
by second world giants such as Gazprom and CNOOC see hey
Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil,
Money and Power (New York: Simon & Schuster 1991),
Anthony Sampson's The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil
Companies and the World They Created (London: Coronet
1988) and Jeremy Leggett's The Carbon War: Dispatches
from the End of the Oil Era (London: Allen Lane 1999).
The American Petroleum Industry: Vol. 2, The Age of
Illumination, 1859-1899 (Evanston: Northwestern Uni
Press 1959) by Harold Williamson & Arnold Daum, The
American Petroleum Industry: Vol. 2, The Age of Energy,
1899-1959 (Evanston: Northwestern Uni Press 1963)
by Williamson, Daum, Ralph Andreano & Gilbert Klose.
corporate histories
For BP see in particular James Bamberg's British Petroleum
and Global Oil, 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2000), R. W. Ferrier's
The History of The British Petroleum Company: Vol.
I, The Developing Years, 1901-1932 (Cambridge: Cambridge
Uni Press 1982), .
For Shell see Stephen Howarth's A Century in Oil,
The Shell Transport & Trading Company 1897-1997
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997). Earlier works
include Kendall Beaton's Enterprise in Oil: A History
of Shell in the United States (New York: Appleton-Century
Crofts 1957), F C Gerretson's four volume History
of the Royal Dutch (Leiden: Brill 1953-57) and The
Technical Development of the Royal Dutch/Shell, 1890-1940
(Leiden: Brill 1957) by R J Forbes & D R O'Beirne.
For Exxon see Growth in a Changing Environment: A
History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1950-1972,
and Exxon Corporation, 1972-1975 (New York: McGraw-Hill
1988) by Bennett Wall, History of Standard Oil Company
(New Jersey): Vol. 3, New Horizons, 1927-1950 (New
York: Harper & Row 1971) by Henrietta Larson, Evelyn
Knowlton & Charles Popple, History of Standard
Oil Company (New Jersey): Vol. 2, The Resurgent Years
1911-1927 (New York: Harper Bros 1956) by George
Gibb & Evelyn Knowlton and History of Standard
Oil Company (New Jersey): Vol. I, Pioneering in Big Business,
1882-1911 (New York: Harper Bros 1955) by Ralph &
Muriel Hidy.
The major work on the demise of Getty is Steve Coll's
The Taking of Getty Oil (New York: Atheneum 1987).
For Dome see Jim Lyon's Dome: The Rise and Fall of
the House that Jack Built (Toronto: 1983), Peter
Foster's Other People's Money: the banks, the government
and Dome (Toronto: 1984) and Scott Simon's 'The acquisition
of Dome Petroleum Limited by Amoco Corporation' in Case
studies in recent Canadian insolvency reorganizations
(Scarborough: Carswell 1997) edited by Jacob Ziegel &
David Baird.
For Burmah see Tony Corley's A History of the
Burmah Oil Company: Vol 1, 1886-1924 (London: Heinemann
1983) and A History of the Burmah Oil Company: Vol
Vol. 2, 1924-1966 (London: Heinemann 1988).
For Sun see August Giebelhaus's Business and Government
in the Oil Industry: A Case Study of Sun Oil, 1876-1945
(Greenwich: JAI Press 1980) and The Challenge of Change:
The Sun Oil Company, 1945-1977 (Columbus: Ohio State
Uni Press 1983) by Arthur Johnson.
For ARCO see The Wildcatter: A Portrait of Robert
O Anderson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)
by Kenneth Harris and From the Rio Grande to the Arctic:
The Story of the Richfield Oil Corporation (Norman:
Uni of Oklahoma Press 1972) by Charles Jones
people
For the Rockefellers see Ron Chernow's Titan: The
Life of John D. Rockefeller (New York: Random 1998),
more persuasive than The Rockefellers: An American
Dynasty (New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston 1976) by
Peter Collier & David Horowitz and A Rockefeller
Family Portrait, From John D. to Nelson (Boston:
Little, Brown 1959) by William Manchester. Allan Nevins'
marmoreal John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American
Enterprise (New York: Scribner 1940) and Study
in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist
(New York: Scribner 1953) have been superseded by Chernow.
Works on Rockefeller associates include Edward Akin's
Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
(Kent: Kent State Uni Press 1988).
JP Getty featured in Somerset de Chair's indulgent Getty
on Getty: A Man in a Billion (London: Cassell 1989),
Ralph Hewins' The Richest American: J. Paul Getty
(New York: Dutton 1960), Robert Lenzner's Getty: The
Richest Man in the World (London: Grafton 1985) and
Russell Miller's The House of Getty (London:
Michael Joseph 1985).
There is an indulgent view of Walter Teagle in Teagle
of Jersey Standard (New Orleans: Tulane Uni Press
1974) by Bennett Wall & and George Gibb.
Henri Deterding & Stanley Naylor collaborated on An
International Oilman (New York: Harper 1934), unchallenged
by The Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of
Sir Henri Deterding (New York: Covici Friede 1938)
from his secretary Glyn Roberts. There is a marginally
more critical evaluation in Paul Hendrix' Sir Henri
Deterding and Royal Dutch-Shell: Changing Control of World
Oil, 1900-1940 (Bristol: Bristol Academic Press 2002).Samuel
features in Robert Henriques' Marcus Samuel: First
Viscount Bearsted and Founder of the 'Shell' Transport
and Trading Company, 1853-1927 (London: Barrie and
Rockliff 1960).
Ambassador for Oil: The Life of John, First Baron
Cadman (London: Herbert Jenkins 1960) by John Rowland
& Basil Cadman is another authorised biography, complemented
by Henry Longhurst's Adventure in Oil: The Story of
British Petroleum (London: Sidgwick & Jackson
1959).
For Gulbenkian see Nubar Gulbenkian's Portrait in
Oil (New York: Simon & Schuster 1965), Mr
Five Percent: The Story of Calouste Gulbenkian (New
York: Rinehart 1958) by Ralph Hewins
Armand Hammer was responsible for the brash Hammer
(New York: Putnam 1987); readers are directed instead
to Armand Hammer: The Untold Story (Boston: Little,
Brown 1989) by Steve Weinberg
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