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Bass Strait oil and gas records assembled by Dr Tony Krins

Collection Title
Bass Strait oil and gas records assembled by Dr Tony Krins
Repository
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library
Reference
BSAR03890
Date Range
1964 - 1987
Creator
Description

This collection is a small set of personal records and acquired publications relating to the work Tony Krins did for Esso Australia Ltd on the Glomar III oil and gas drilling ship 1964-1968. He was a medical student at Monash University at the time and worked in the summer vacations. Some items post-date this period and document the subsequent history of Bass Strait oil and gas fields. Digital (pdf) copies of some of the records are held in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library (archive). Some of the published items have been registered as 'Published Resources' [see below]. Included is a draft book typescript, with annotations by Krins, of Robert Murray (1987), "The Bass Strait story: A history of the discovery, development and production of the oil and gas in Gipplsand 1963-1986 by Esso and BHP" [unpublished] 215 pages, 5 pdf files; and the first 8 pages of the report "Esso Gippsland Shelf-1, Victoria: Well completion report" by Esso Exploration Australia. Inc. September 1965 [also annotated by Krins], 1 pdf file. These items can be provided upon request.

Formats
Print
Quantity
20 items (0.05 m)
Access
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  • Anon, Bass Strait: long history, bright future. (Melbourne: Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd, 2009), 6 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS17334.pdf. Details
  • Anon, 'The obstetrician at the birth of an industry', Connection - ExxonMobil, 136 (2020), 4-5. Details
  • Esso Australia, 'In Action! - Esso Exploration's first offshore well is spudded-in in Gippsland Basin', Esso News, 3 (7) (1965), 1-2. Details
  • Thomson, Peter; Macklin, Robert, The Big Fella: The rise of BHP Biliton (North Sydney, New South Wales: William Heinemann, 2009), 518 pp, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/31715216. Details
  • White, J.A.W., 'Australian offshore drilling: past, present and future', The APPEA Journal, 15 (1) (1975), 141-146, https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ74017. Details

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