Books written by Joseph A. Pratt
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Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council
... with other groups in the petroleum industry examining problems involved in air and water pollution.5 The council established a twenty-eight-person Committee on Environmental Conservation chaired by William W. Keller (chairman of the ...
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The First Twenty Years
The First Twenty Years
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Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore Oil and Gas
This chapter draws from an interview with G.C. Lee. 2. ... Dean McGee as quoted in "McGee Recalls First Well 40 Years Ago," unidentified newspaper clipping in Brown & Root Archives. F.R. Harris and Harry Gard Knox, ...
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Introduction to Energy and Sustainability
Offers a comprehensive review of the currently existing energy production and consumption technologies Offering unique perspectives from one social and one natural scientist and combining them with the view of an industry expert, this book ...
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But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas, 1886-1986
For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the...
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Builders: Herman and George R. Brown
Builders serves both as a history of their lives and as an examination of business life in mid-twentieth-century America.
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Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast
Examines the steps Houston has taken to overcome laissez-faire politics, indiscriminate expansion, and infrastructural overload. An analysis of the environmental consequences of large-scale energy production and unchecked growth.
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Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore Oil and Gas
This history puts a human face on the process of technological change. Using the words of many of those who took part in Brown & Root's offshore activities, this book recounts their efforts to find practical ways to recover offshore oil.
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From Texas to the East: A Strategic History of Texas Eastern Corporation
Immediately after World War II, several Houston-based firms organized to transport natural gas from the giant fields of the Southwest to the large utility companies that distributed energy in the...