The 1965 Petroleum Congress

[League of Arab States, Secretariat General]. Fifth Arab Petroleum Congress.

€ 6,500.00

Extraordinarily comprehensive run of papers from the 1965 Petroleum Congress, many issued by prominent oil companies, including Aramco, Shell Qatar, the Standard Oil Company of California, Iraqi Oil Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, and one issued by OPEC. Discusses Arab oil policy, employee training procedures in refineries, corporate organization at Iraqi Petroleum Company in Kirkuk, the problem of the origin of petroleum, the economic consequences of substandard maintenance methods, the geology of the Gulf of Suez, Lebanon's petroleum potential, the use of additives to produce suitable diesel fuel, and discussing the critical offshore fields of Qatar, with notes on the new 1963 concessions, exploration drilling, geology, production rates. Includes a rare legal paper in Arabic on the nature of the petroleum concession contract as an administrative contract rather than a private law contract.

This set comprises issues no. 16 (two copies), 17, 20, 22, 29 (three copies, two in Arabic and one in English), 30 (two copies, in Arabic and English), 46, 53, 54, 62, 64 and three unnumbered papers. 10 issues in Arabic.

A very well preserved set reflecting the 1960s' scientific background to oil production in the Arab World.