| Interviewee | KLAVENESS, ALF (b. 1916) |
| Professions | Petroleum engineer, geophysicist |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1472 |
| Date(s) of interview | - |
| Description | Petroleum engineer, geophysicist. His career in the oil exploration business; his service aboard the destroyer USS Benham in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His family’s shipbuilding business in Norway; his parents’ emigration to the United States; his experiences working aboard tankers; college at Louisiana State University, 1934-38; his positions as “jug hustler,” dynamite loader, driller, party manager, and party chief of a seismic engineering crew for Texaco; his duties aboard the Benham as executive officer; application of seismic engineering to sonar operations; his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945; postwar re-employment with Texaco as a geophysicist; his retirement from Texaco and work as a consultant interpreting speculative seismic data; his advocacy of the use of retired warships for peacetime activities; his association with boatbuilder Andrew Higgins; application of sonics to the medical field, offshore oil drilling, underwater archaeology, and anti-submarine warfare; his patents for imaging and mapping the underground; the influence of Dr. Alexander Wolfe on his career. |
| Interviewer(s) | Alvin Clement, Stephanie Hrabar |
| Physical Description | 116 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
