A Wild Ride: A Physicist’s Walk Through the Oil Patch
Since Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust, and especially since the twin oil embargoes of the 1970s, oil has been both worshipped and vilified. The public has very little appreciation for the immense, complicated, and technical enterprise behind the prices at the pump, and the role physicists play in many aspects of the business. Mark Williams (Carleton ’73) will use his own journey to illustrate how what physicist know and how they think are put to use in the oil business.