The Petroleum History Institute (PHI) is hosting their annual symposium in Findlay, Ohio, July 13-15. Visit the PHI website for information or check out the attached flyer. Registration details are attached. See the current list of presentations below.

• Freeing the Furnace Slaves, or the Battle of the Basements -How Fuel Oil Displaced Anthracite Coal, 1925-1940
• The Changing Oilfield: An Environmental Impact Perspective
• Application of Infrared Imagery for the Identification of Leaking Historical Production and Idle Oil and Gas Wells in Ohio
• Radioactive Oilfields:  Cold War Uranium Exploration in Areas of Hydrocarbon Deposits
• The Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association:  After WWII
• A Brief History of the Utica – Point Pleasant Shale Play of Ohio
• Fearless Freddie - The Long and Ambitious Career of Frederic M. Prentice, International Oil Man
• Waste, Ignorance, and Flambeaux - Ominous Warnings from Indiana’s Oil and Gas Boom
• Abraham Gesner (1797-1864) Revisited:  Putting Oil History in the Classroom
• Practical Tools - The Beginning of Professional Practice, and the Founding of AAPG: 1900 – 1917
• The Discovery of Daqing Oilfield in China
• Hypothetical 1859 North American Exploratory Program
• The Independent Torpedo Company - Oil Well Shooting in the Lima-Indiana Oil Field and Beyond
• Oil in the First World War
• Early oil drilling in and around Grand Lake, Ohio (1886-1892)
• Standard Oil and the Great Lakes