Excerpt from Oil Land Development and ValuationThe rapidly increasing demand for petroleum has led to more careful methods of mining, aiming to obtain the maximum production. The entire structure of the oil industry finally rests upon the productive property which furnishes the crude oil. It is therefore necessary that all possible precautions, evolved from past experience, be applied to the construction and mainte nance of the wells tapping the original source of supply.The oil industry is too complex and highly developed to be treated thoroughly in a single volume or by a single author. This book aims to outline only the steps necessary for the full and proper development of lands which have already been determined to be oil-bearing. It is hoped that the subject matter herein treated will be valuable to all who are concerned in or responsible for oil field Operations.The best methods of oil land development require information furnished by both geological and engineering investigations. The information herewith presented is based upon some ten years of such investigations, a portion of which were made while administering the oil and gas conservation laws of the State of California.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.