Prospecting for Oil and Gas

Abstract

IT is to be hoped that by now, when so much publicity is given in the Press to commercial oil undertakings (and, unfortunately, to many which are the reverse of commercial in the true sense of the word), the more intelligent public will have learned that “chance” is a relatively unimportant factor in modern oil-finding. Much of the present-day success of existing fields, and undoubtedly the prospects of ultimately locating new productive areas, lie in the application to oil prospecting of the more precise methods of geological survey. Such work can be carried out only by competent persons qualified to undertake a survey for oil, and this implies training of a highly specialised character. Those who have had any experience, therefore, in this branch of teaching will readily appreciate the value of a book such as Mr. L. S. Panyity has written, a book which must also make a wide appeal to the student and to the oil geologist of the older school.

Prospecting for Oil and Gas.

By L. S. Panyity. Pp. xvii + 249. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1920.) Price 18s. net.