Chapter 1 From Local to Global Petroleum Geology: Hans Höfer von Heimhalt’s Contributions Between Empires, Economies and Epistemologies

Chapter 2 History of Oil Exploration in the State of São Paulo Before the Foundation of Petrobras (1872–1953)

Chapter 3 Petroleum: New Energy Perspectives for Brazil in 1922

Chapter 5 Teapot Dome: The Greatest Political Scandal in the History of the US Oil Industry

Chapter 6 Technique and Exploration: The Beginning of Micropaleontology in the Brazilian Oil Industry

Chapter 7 From Colleague to Enemy? German Petroleum Geologists and the Cold War

Chapter 8 The Incredible Transforming History of a Former Oil Refiner into a Major Deepwater Offshore Operator: Blending Audacity, Technology, Policy, and Luck from the 1970s Oil Crisis up to the 2000s Pre-salt Discoveries

Chapter 9 Research Partnership Between Petrobras and Brazilian Universities in the Transition to the Twenty-First Century