oil-gas. Oil and Gas
Record Group
Identifier: oil-gas
Archival collections related to oil and gas exploration, production, management, and more.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Natural gas research materials of Chris Castaneda
Collection
Identifier: MS 566
Overview
The collection consists of research materials collected for the purpose of writing historical texts about the natural gas industry. Included are articles about people and companies active in the industry, as well as published works and videos.
Dates:
ca. 1930-1990
Panhandle Eastern Corp. Historical Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 500
Abstract:
The bulk of this material consists of business records of the PanEnergy Corp., relating in particular to the records of the Panhandle Eastern Corp. and Texas Eastern Corp. from the 1920s to the 1990s. Much of the material is related to two corporate histories: From Texas to the East: A Strategic History of Texas eastern Corporation and Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern...
Dates:
1927-1997
Rice University KTRU Radio records
Collection
Identifier: UA 011
Abstract
Audio recordings and administrative files reflecting the daily business of the KTRU Radio station at Rice University. Recordings include newscasts, interviews with rock, jazz and classical musicians, Rice Presidents’ State of the University speeches and recorded live music. Administrative records include radio directors’ meeting minutes, “Gripes and Groans” books from the DJ booth, programming notes, election forms, DJ handbook, licensing information, and correspondence. Date range:...
Dates:
1962 - 2020
Roy M. Huffington Oil Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 575
Overview
This collection documents the business history of the Roy M. Huffington, Inc., also known as Huffco. There are photos, correspondence files, videos, as well as awards and speeches that Roy M. Huffington gave while he served as CEO and president of the company.
Dates:
1958 - 2008
Roy M. Huffington Personal and Professional Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 688
Overview
The personal and professional papers of Roy M. Huffington contain correspondence, photographs, awards, and audio visual materials. His civic duties are the bulk of this collection.
Dates:
1972 - 2009
Rush Moody, Jr. Federal Power Commission records
Collection
Identifier: MS 823
Overview
The collection consists of materials from and related to the term of Rush Moody, Jr. on the Federal Power Commission from 1971 to 1976.
Dates:
1971 - 1985
Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle Boughton Sharp Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 271
Overview
Correspondence, scrapbooks, business papers, ledgers, tributes and memorials, audiotapes of oral history interviews, clippings, photos, and other papers of Sharp and his wife, Estelle (Boughton) Sharp, active in Houston, Tex., civic and philanthropic affairs. Topics include oil industry, lives of the Sharp family, Howard Hughes family, growth of Houston, Spindletop Oil Field, founding of the Texas Company and Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, and establishment of United Charities.
Dates:
1868 - 1978
William Allen Haynes papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 268
Abstract:
Over one half of the collection documents cattle ranching, oil prospecting, and banking in Texas, as well as personal and family life during the Great Depression. The William Allen Haynes collection offers a view of living conditions of a prosperous Central Texas rancher and entrepreneur as well as providing information on conditions in Texas in the first part of the 19th century.
Dates:
1901 - 1953