Drilling for Oil and Constructing Difference in Eastern Bolivia.

This article discusses how extraction of oil by Standard Oil Co. in the 1920s and 1930s from Bolivia's eastern lowlands reshaped natural and cultural landscapes in this Andean country. Standard Oil survey teams mapped more than 25,000 kilometers of land in three departments during the early phase of exploration, from 1921 to 1923. The oil industry developed the eastern part of the country by building and maintaining roads, by installing telegraph lines, and by investing in banking services.