1. TÜRKİYE'DE PETROL VARLIĞI ÇALIŞMALARINA BİR ÖRNEK: SCHWENNESEN RAPORU.
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ÇOLAK, Mustafa and DAŞDEMİR, Hasan
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PETROLEUM prospecting , *OIL fields , *WORLD War II , *MANUFACTURING processes , *LUBRICATING oils , *OTTOMAN Empire ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
After being processed and used as an industrial product in the 19th century, petroleum has become an indispensable energy source for humanity. Especially with the use of oil in motor vehicles, the need for this underground resource has increased day by day. This situation led to the establishment of important companies in the oil field in the world towards the end of the 19th century. In this century, although there was no serious attempt towards oil exploration activities in the Ottoman Empire, oil exploration activities were generally carried out in relevance of Western states. In the first years of the Republic, oil exploration was generally carried out by the public. However, until 1948, a commercial well could not be discovered in Turkey. As a result of the rapprochement between Turkey and the USA, especially after the World War II, experts from the USA made investigations in Turkey and prepared reports in many fields. One of the areas examined due to the increasing need in the country has been the oil fields. As a matter of fact, during this period, many US companies' geologists were given permission to conduct research in Turkey. In this context, one of the experts investigating in Turkey is the US geologist Alvin Theodore Schwennesen, a staff member of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company. Schwennesen came to Turkey at the beginning of 1948 and prepared a report on the country's oil possibilities. In the report, in which Turkey's oil possibilities are explained in a technical language, very important information is included in terms of the explanation of oil fields that later would be very effective in the economic development of the country. Evaluation of the report obtained from the State Department collection in the USA archive is discussed in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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