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List of inventors
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- Edward Robert Armstrong (1876–1955), Canada/U.S. - anchored deep-sea platform
- Armais Arutunoff (1893-1978), Russian Empire, U.S. - electric submersible pump
B
- Reuben Carlton "Carl" Baker, Sr. (1872-1957), US - oil well drilling tools
D
- Henri-Georges Doll (1902-1991), France
- Edwin Laurentine ("Colonel") Drake (1819-1880), U.S. - oil well drilling method
H
- Erle Palmer Halliburton (1892-1957), U.S. - method and apparatus for cementing wells
- Howard Robard Hughes, Sr. (1869-1924), U.S. - roller cutter drill bits
J
- Byron Jackson (1841-1921), U.S. - deep well vertical turbine pump
K
- Sergey Alekseyevich Khristianovich (1908-2000), USSR/Russia - method of connecting gas wells and pipelines of different pressures
N
- Ludvig Emmanuilovich Nobel (1831–1888), Sweden/Russia – first successful oil tanker
- Ivan Ivanovich Nesterov (1932-2019), USSR/Russia - method for cleaning of water and soil from oil pollution
S
- François Conrad Schlumberger (1878-1936), France - process for determining the nature of the subsoil
- Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (1884-1953), France - method for electrically prospecting the undersoil
- Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (1853–1939), Russian Empire/USSR – thermal cracking (Shukhov cracking process), thin-shell structure, tensile structure, hyperboloid structure, gridshell, oil pipeline, cylindric oil depot