Foreword; Introduction; In the Beginning: Topography & Geology; Ernest de Koven Leffingwell: Hermit Explorer; The First Oil Activity: 1915 to 1921; Trekking & Mapping: The Middle 1920s; Turning Point NPR4; Richfield Discovers Commercial Oil: 1957; The Atlantic Refining Company; Humble Oil Negotiates a Way In; Sinclair: Senior Management Blinked; Leases for Sale; Oil Exploration: Spirit & Gumption; To Drill or Not to Drill; Arctic Roulette: Drill the Prudhoe Structure!; Lisburne Limestone: The Main Objective; Confirmation!; The Consequences; Conclusion; Index.
John Sweet is a petroleum geologist with an MS from the University of Michigan (1950). He had a thirty-five year career with Atlantic Richfield Company, one-third of which was spent in Alaska. He began his career with a predecessor company, The Atlantic Refining Company, in Midland, Texas, and gradually worked his way north through New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta and British Columbia, arriving in Anchorage, Alaska, February 8, 1962.The day he and his family set foot on Alaskan soil, his life changed forever. He was district explorationist at the time of the discovery. Very few geologists ever get be a part of a major oil discovery, much less a world-class oil field, but he did at ARCO, and it's this story that he shares in Discovery at Prudhoe Bay. The construction of this work was based upon many sources and years of research. John Sweet has also written: Developments in Alaska - Published in the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Vol. 48. No. 6 (June 1963) pp1035-1049. This is a summary of all the oil and gas exploration and development in Alaska for 1963.
Author John M. Sweet, a former exploration geologist with Atlantic-Richfield Company (ARCO), recounts the story of how oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. This single field generates 17 percent of U.S. domestic oil production, more than twice the output of the next-largest field. But Discovery at Prudhoe Bay is more than just a story of one oilfield. I also learned a lot about how the oil industry works. The book details not only the nitty-gritty of surveying and drilling, but also the backroom politics, personalities and ploys that led to that first Prudhoe Bay drill hole in 1967. All in all, the book is an important historical document, and I found it to be a comfortable read. It is most effective when Sweet related his first-person experiences on the project...John Sweet is an oilman, doggone it, not some poet! And he has recorded an important saga that has far-reaching impacts in the modern world.-- Callan Bentley
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