This book contains biographies of oil workers who sculpted the face of the modern economy. Personalities united by oil. Professional path, discoveries, achievements, contributions to the oil industry, as well as the philosophy and character of these unusual people. Ore prospector, founder of Russia's first oil field Manufacturer, merchant, oil industrialist who organized the production of engine oils from oil Entrepreneur and philanthropist, creator of Russia's first vertically integrated oil industry companiesAmerican oilman, pioneer of exploration drilling in the USAAmerican entrepreneur, oil industrialist, creator of the US oil industryPharmacist, chemist-technologist, inventor of the kerosene lamp, one of the founding fathers of the modern oil industryFamous Russian merchant, industrialist and philanthropist, one of the first oil producers in SiberiaCreator of the Caspian-Black Sea Oil Industry Society, one of the founders of the oil industry in RussiaSwedish inventor, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of the Russian oil industryIndustrialist, entrepreneur, public figure, one of the founders of the Russian oil industryThe greatest Russian chemist and physicist, author periodic law of chemical elements, who made a huge contribution to the development of the domestic oil industry. The greatest American entrepreneur, oil tycoon, philanthropist, the first dollar billionaire in history. British oil industrialist, founder of British Petroleum - a British oil and gas company - the second largest publicly traded oil and gas company in the world. English entrepreneur of Jewish origin, founder of Shell Transport and Trading Company. Outstanding Russian engineer, inventor, scientist, creator of main oil pipelines, oil storage facilities and thermal cracking plants. Pioneer of oil production in Texas, one of the founders of the American oil industry. Engineer, inventor of the “rational heat engine” new type Encyclopedist scientist, naturalist and public figure, one of the creators of geochemistry and biogeochemistry, founder of the complex of modern geosciences Outstanding Russian geologist, paleontologist, geographer, science fiction writer Largest Dutch industrialist, head of the Royal Dutch and Royal Dutch Shell companies Billionaire of Armenian origin, founder of the Iraqi oil company companies, one of the largest oil magnates of the 20th centuryFounder of Russian oil geology, an outstanding theoretical scientist, discoverer of depositsAmerican oil magnate, one of the world's first billionairesAmerican oil magnate, billionaire, founder of the Getty Oil empireItalian oil industrialist, chairman of the state oil company ENI (one of the largest oil companies companies of the world - the Italian group Eni S.p.A.)People's Commissar of the Oil Industry of the USSR during the Great Patriotic WarGreek billionaire, creator and owner of a fleet of supertankersThe last Shah of Iran, under which the country's oil industry flourishedSaudi politician, oil expert, ex-Minister of Oil and Natural Resources of Saudi ArabiaRuling dynasty Saudi Arabia, creators and owners of the oil company Saudi Aramco[350] - the world leader in terms of oil reserves