Dorset's Black Gold: A History of Dorset's Oil Industry

by Alan Taylor

In this book, Alan Taylor reveals that the history of Dorset's oil starts in the 1850s with attempts to extract oil and gas from mined oil shale at Kimmeridge. By the early twentieth century exploration geologists had realised the significance of oil seeps and other geological features found along the Dorset coast. It seemed that oil might lie in the rock strata at specific locations deep under the Dorset countryside. The author explains how exploration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398103489
• ISBN13: 9781398103481
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages