Alain Beltran est historien, directeur de recherche au Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, membre de lUMR SIRICE, commune aux universités Paris-Sorbonne et Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches portent essentiellement sur lhistoire de lénergie depuis la fi n du XIXe siècle, lhistoire dentreprise, lévolution des grands services publics et linnovation.
Alain Beltran, Historian, is Professor and Research Director at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and member of UMR SIRICE (Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sorbonne). His main research fields are history of Energy XIXth-XXIst centuries (oil and gas, electricity, energy savings), business history (especially state-owned companies), technical networks and territories, and innovation history.

Contenu : Alain Beltran : Introduction - Christian Borde : La genèse du tanker : transgression, pollution, régulation (1885-1935) - Jean-Pierre Williot : Le gaz alternatif : les méthaniers et les routes maritimes du GNL des années 1950 aux années 2010 - Benoît Doessant : L'approvisionnement de la France en pétrole par voie maritime. Total et Elf Aquitaine entre impératifs économiques et obligation de pavillon - Julien Brault: Oil Roads and Oil Rent. A Political Economy of French Oil Supply in the 20th Century - Silvana Bartoletto: Economic Growth and Oil Routes in the Mediterranean Countries - John Vincent Bowlus: The 1967 Closure of the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Oil Unity - Marta Musso: The Transmediterranean Gas Pipeline: A Political History - Caroline Piquet : Le transport du pétrole du golfe Persique à la Méditerranée. L'enjeu de la route de Suez (XXe-XXIe siècles) - Ilaria Tremolada: Two New Pipelines for the Middle East - Philippe Tristani : De l'enclavement à l'achèvement du « pipeline stratégique ». Le transport pétrolier au coeur de la politique énergétique nationale irakienne, 1957-1976 - Aymen Boughanmi: Pipeline-Based Geo-Economics. The Russian Example - Roberto Cantoni: What's in a Pipe? Technopolitical Debate over the Ontology of Steel Pipes at Nato (1960-1962) - Emily Savage: Oil Transport and State Formation. The Contradictions of Absolute Sovereignty and Transboundary Pipelines in South Sudan - Li Lifan: The Development of China's Overseas Pipeline. Situation and Future Impact - Fabio Indeo: The Vulnerability of Maritime Energy Routes and Chinese Energy Security. Hormuz and Malacca Chokepoint Dilemmas - Miriam Gassner: Economic Lifelines or Ecological Menace? Transnational Crude Oil Pipelines and Environmental Protests in the Lake Constance Area in the 1960s - Philippe Le Billon/Ryan Vandecasteyen: Pipeline Routes and 'Dirty Oil'. (Dis)Connecting Alberta's Tar Sands and British Columbia's North Coast - Patrick Boureille : Sécuriser les routes du pétrole voisines des côtes de la métropole (1945-1980).