Petroleum industry is one of the important and influential industries in the world from economic, technological, and political aspects and so it's knowledge management . Therefore the Study and researching of knowledge management history in the petroleum sector could prepare a good experiment and base for future initiations. This essay seek to display the situation of knowledge creation and management in the petroleum sector of a developing oil country specially in it's establishment and developing periods .Therefore type and numbers of the documents and scientific data which produced in this sector is gathered and extracted from printed resources and then investigated by content analysis. Then the direction, intensity, and trend of knowledge production and structure and organization of knowledge management have been examined and presented.

Petroleum industry is one of the important and influential industries in the world from economic, technological, and political aspects and so it's knowledge management . Therefore the Study and researching of knowledge management history in the petroleum sector could prepare a good experiment and base for future initiations. This essay seek to display the situation of knowledge creation and management in the petroleum sector of a developing oil country specially in it's establishment and developing periods .Therefore type and numbers of the documents and scientific data which produced in this sector is gathered and extracted from printed resources and then investigated by content analysis. Then the direction, intensity, and trend of knowledge production and structure and organization of knowledge management have been examined and presented.