* Midnight Oil ( band ), also known as " The Oils ", Australian rock band

Support acts for the first concert included The Church, Mental as Anything, The Party Boys, The Sunnyboys, and Midnight Oil — who acknowledged, " Hooks were the only Australian band they would let top the bill above them ".

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Inspired by the STP Motor Oil stickers that the band members were fans of in their youth, various spins on the initials " STP " were tossed around, including " Shirley Temple's Pussy ".

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1941-1942 radio broadcasts — among them a number of slots on the Orson Welles Almanac broadcast and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil — as well as by making recordings.

Midnight Oil ( also known informally as " The Oils " to fans ), were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player / lead guitarist Jim Moginie.

Garrett was lead singer of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002.

About the same time he became a singer with the Australian rock band Midnight Oil in 1973, after responding to an advertisement placed by one of the band's founding members, Rob Hirst.

Ironically, the band decided to split just as they were beginning to obtain long-overdue commercial success both in their native UK and internationally, with Oil On Canvas becoming their highest charting UK album, reaching No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart.

Hester later became involved in a new band called Largest Living Things ( 1997 – 2000 ), with Kevin Garant on guitar and Barry Stockley on bass, performing with members of rock groups Crowded House, Split Enz, Midnight Oil, and others.

Shortly afterwards, Latham announced the recruitment of Peter Garrett, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation and former lead singer with the rock band Midnight Oil, as a Labor candidate in Kingsford Smith, a safe Sydney electorate being vacated by the retiring former minister Laurie Brereton.

The song " In the Valley " from the album Earth and Sun and Moon by Australian pop / rock band Midnight Oil opens with the line, " My grandfather went down on the Montevideo / The Rising Sun sent him floating to his rest ," sung by Peter Garrett.

The last song he recorded with the band was a cover of Midnight Oil's " The Dead Heart " for the 2001 tribute album, Power & The Passion: A Tribute to Midnight Oil.

Another major band is the Warumpi Band, which toured with Midnight Oil.

The band contributed the track " Blind Lead Blind ", their B side of 2007's " Minute By Minute ", to a compilation CD for The Buttery Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centre titled Caution: Life Ahead, which included contributions from other Australian acts such as Powderfinger, Midnight Oil and The Living End, and was released in November.

Miller and Margera later changed their approach to making music and formed new " radio-friendly " band Oil ( stylised oiL ) in 1996, with live bassist Andy Smith, and released their debut EP Lifeline in the summer.

" In 1998, the band dropped the name Oil and replaced it with Camp Kill Yourself, proposed by Miller as " the new band name, the new direction, the new movement ," thus dropping their " mainstream ... pop appeal " approach.

* Peter Garrett, frontman of 1980s band Midnight Oil, was born and raised here.

Rinehart formed the band Oil in 1997 after converting to Christianity.

Gammons has a penchant for indie rock and the blues, and is active in the Boston indie rock scene when his other commitments allow him the time ; he has been sighted at several Midnight Oil shows, and has mentioned the band in several columns.

Martin Rotsey is an Australian guitarist, and was a member of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1977 until the band's dissolution in 2002 .</ br >

Presently, the four tallest buildings in the city are Willis Tower ( formerly the Sears Tower, also a building with its own zip code ), Trump International Hotel and Tower, the Aon Center ( previously the Standard Oil Building ), and the John Hancock Center.

Laboratory display of distillation: 1: A heating device 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer / Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate / receiving flask 9: Vacuum / gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed control 13: Stirrer / heat plate 14: Heating ( Oil / sand ) bath 15: Stirring means e. g. ( shown ), boiling chips or mechanical stirrer 16: Cooling bath.

Top-twenty singles during this period included " The Right Combination ", " Burning the Midnight Oil " ( both duets with Porter Wagoner, 1971 ), " Lost Forever in Your Kiss " ( with Wagoner ), " Touch Your Woman ( 1972 ), " If Teardrops Were Pennies " ( with Wagoner ), " My Tennessee Mountain Home " and " Travelin ' Man " ( 1973 ).

In 1966, the U. S. Justice Department ordered Humble Oil to " cease and desist " from using the Esso brand at stations in several southeastern states, following protests from Standard Oil of Kentucky ( Kyso ), which was a Standard of California subsidiary in the process of rebranding its Standard stations to Chevron.

An oil exploration consortium consisting of the Venezuelan state oil company, Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc. ( Petróleos de Venezuela, S. A .-- PDVSA ), Cambria Oil, and Texaco expressed interest in the construction of a refinery at Puerto Castilla in 1993, with production aimed at the local market.

Initially calling their venture Dramatic Oil ( later renaming it Fuller Farm Oil ), the partners invested in a site along the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania, in late 1863 for drilling.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

In January 1909, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and in a new trial before another judge ( Landis recused himself ), Standard Oil was acquitted.

** " Oil " ( Dynasty ), the debut episode of Dynasty

* " Oil " ( The Young Ones ), an episode of The Young Ones

Oil of thyme, the essential oil of common thyme ( Thymus vulgaris ), contains 20-54 % thymol.

grappled with the new antitrust statutes ( Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States ), upheld the constitutionality of military conscription ( Selective Draft Law Cases ) and brought the substantive due process doctrine to its first apogee ( Adkins v. Children's Hospital ).

* UOP LLC, ( formerly Universal Oil Products ), a company developing and delivering oil-related technology to the major manufacturing industries

* BP ( formerly British Petroleum ), successor to Amoco and Standard Oil of Ohio

The proximity to London and Heathrow have attracted a number of companies: Bupa ( healthcare ), J P Kenny ( Oil & Gas ), Logica ( telecommunications and IT consultants ) have major offices, NDS ( conditional access DRM provider ), Siemens Building Automation Division and British Gas ( part of Centrica ) have their national headquarters here.

Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

The " Go Beyond Oil " campaign also involves applying political pressure on the governments who allow oil exploration in their territories ; with the group stating that one of the key aims of the " Go Beyond Oil " campaign is to " work to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and put pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

The group invested in the construction of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, established the Economy Savings Institution and the Economy Brick Works, and operated the Economy Oil Company, as well as the Economy Planing Mill, Economy Lumber Company, and eventually donated some land in Beaver Falls for the construction of Geneva College.

* Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the richest group of people in the world.

The group Survivors of the Valdez Oil Spill claims to represent the 40, 000 or so

In Economy, the group aided the construction of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, established the Economy Savings Institution and the Economy Brick Works, and operated the Economy Oil Company, Economy Planing Mill, Economy Lumber Company, and eventually donated some land in Beaver Falls for the construction of Geneva College.

He left Midnight Oil in 2002 to concentrate on his environmental and social activism, effectively spelling the end for the group.

In February 1969, before the SS Manhattan had even sailed from its East Coast starting point, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System ( TAPS ), an unincorporated joint group created by ARCO, British Petroleum, and Humble Oil in October 1968, asked for permission from the United States Department of the Interior to begin geological and engineering studies of a proposed oil pipeline route from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, across Alaska.

Arbusto Energy ( sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil ) was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1979, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath.

About 1910, Union Oil made a strategic alliance with the Independent Producers Agency, a group of small oil producers, to build pipelines from the Kern County oil fields to Union Oil facilities on the Pacific coast.

To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers.

The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( now BP ); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California ( SoCal ) and Texaco ( now Chevron ); Royal Dutch Shell ; and Standard Oil of New Jersey ( Esso ) and Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony ) ( now ExxonMobil ).

Shortly after the Convention, Lewis called together Charles Howard, President of the International Typographical Union, Sidney Hillman, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, David Dubinsky, President of the ILGWU, Thomas McMahon, head of the United Textile Workers, John Sheridan of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, Harvey Fremming from the Oil Workers Union and Max Zaritsky of the Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers to discuss the formation of a new group within the AFL to carry on the fight for industrial organizing.

Practical development of scenario forecasting, to guide strategy rather than for the more limited academic uses which had previously been the case, was started by Pierre Wack in 1971 at the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies-and it, too, was given impetus by the Oil Shock two years later.

The Chagos Archipelago ( or ; formerly Bassas de Chagas and later also Oil Islands, known as () in Dhivehi, as () in Hindi and other North Indian languages, and as () in Tamil ), is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean ; situated some due south of the Maldives archipelago.

In 1969, the group recorded a song for a two-minute-long TV ad for Gulf Oil: " Bringin ' Home the Oil ".