Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore Oil and Gas

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Fifty years ago, in November 1947, Brown & Root helped Kerr-McGee build the first out-of-sight-land offshore platform that produced oil. The date is widely celebrated as the birth of the modern offshore industry. In the years since this historic occasion, Brown & Root has continued to pioneer in the design and construction of offshore pipelines and platforms. At the side of the remainder of the offshore industry, the company has helped develop technology able to find and producing oil in deepwater and in harsh environments all over the world.

This history puts a human face on the process of technological change. The use of the words of many of those who took part in Brown & Root’s offshore activities, this book recounts their efforts to find practical how one can get better offshore oil. Building on lessons learned in the Gulf of Mexico before and after World War II, the company’s team of workers adapted offshore technologies to conditions encountered in Venezuela, the Middle East, Alaska, and other regions before becoming probably the most first engineering and construction companies to confront the challenge of North Sea development in the 1960’s.

Through times of boom and bust in the oil industry, the search for effective technology had continued. The process has not at all times been smooth, but the results have been impressive. As we enter a new and exciting era in offshore technology, the history of the first fifty years of the industry provides a useful context for understanding current and future events.

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