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Oil and drop
Oil drop experiment apparatus
* 1909 – Fritz Haber: Haber Process and also the Oil drop experiment by Robert Andrews Millikan to determine the charge on an electron
* Oil drop experiment
* In the Mighty Mouse short Prehistoric Perils, Oil Can Harry uses the same tactic to drop Pearl Pureheart off a power line.
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A series of corruption scandals involving PLM ministers, together with a severe economic downturn caused by the Oil Shock led to a drop in support for the PLM.
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Holiday meets with the CEO of Killen Oil, Jimmy Pope ( Chris Cooper ) and informs him that the DOJ needs a second body to drop the investigation.
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Oil and experiment
An early experiment by Shell Oil Company in massive oil storage in McCamey proved a failure: local oilmen built a reservoir to hold up to one million barrels of oil in an earthen tank, but the limestone formation underneath the tank cracked under the weight of the crude, allowing much of it to leak into the subsurface.

Oil and history
* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.
But oil history was made in 1943 when Standard Oil of New Jersey accepted a new agreement in Venezuela based on the 50-50 principle, " a landmark event.
In 1927, the New York State Oil Producers Association sponsored the dedication of a monument at the site describing the history of the oil industry in North America.
* 1985 – On November 19, Pennzoil ( represented by famous Houston litigator Joe Jamail ) won a US $ 10. 53 billion verdict against Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history ( Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Gordon Getty ).
* 2002 – Shell Oil Company begins converting its Texaco stations to the Shell brand, a process expected to be complete by June 2004, " the largest retail re-branding initiative in American business history.
Casper is nicknamed " The Oil City " and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field.
Oil has figured prominently in its history from nearly the onset.
Wetzel County has a long history in the Oil and Gas producing industry.
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.
The Museum depicts the history and culture of Smackover and the surrounding area with an indoor reconstruction of downtown Smackover, an Oil Field Park, and numerous exhibits illustrating South Arkansas's oil industry.
The West Kern Oil Museum, at 1168 Wood Street, has vast holdings including pumps, fire apparatus, trucks, a historic wooden derrick, photos, models, and extensive displays of local history back to Indian times.
The Oil Patch Museum, located just north of I-70 Exit 184, houses exhibits on area geology and the history of local petroleum drilling, production, and transportation.
In 1980, Sun acquired the U. S. oil and gas properties of Texas Pacific Oil Company, Inc., a subsidiary of The Seagram Company, Ltd., for US $ 2. 3 billion — the second largest acquisition in U. S. history to that date.
* The history of the Standard Oil Company 1905 1912 1950
Its history began with the founding of the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange in 1882 and the Los Angeles Oil Exchange in 1889.
In 1895, Coast Oil initiated its enduring marine history when it launched California's first steel tanker, the George Loomis, which could ship 6, 500 barrels of crude between Ventura and San Francisco.
Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil merged in 1984, which was the largest merger in history at that time.
* Ida M. Tarbell's history of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company for McClure's Magazine ( 1903 ).
In 1953, Morse conducted a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest one-person filibuster in U. S. Senate history.
It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in America's history.
* History of Oil video done by Robert Newman A vaudeville type story which talks about petrodollar story in the context of the history of oil

Oil and published
A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.
Frank Redelius ' book, published in 2009, is titled The Master Keys: A Painter's Treatise On The Pictorial Technique Of Oil Painting.
* Oil !, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927
In June 2010, the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan published the report ' Unpaid Debt ', arguing why Lundin may have been complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.
Drake and Billy Smith appear in À l ' ombre des derricks (" In the Shadow of the Oil Rigs "), an episode of the Franco-Belgian comics Western series Lucky Luke, published in 1960, written by René Goscinny ( co-creator of Asterix ) and drawn by Morris.
The series was later published as a book, The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904.
Ida M. Tarbell (" The History of Standard Oil "), Lincoln Steffens (" The Shame of Minneapolis ") and Ray Stannard Baker (" The Right to Work "), simultaneously published famous works in that single issue.
Ida Tarbell published The Rise of the Standard Oil Company in 1902, providing insight into the manipulation of trusts.
* Daily Oil Bulletin, a Canadian petroleum industry publication published every week day
Chart of the major energy companies dubbed " Big Oil " sorted by latest published revenue
Other titles published by the press in its formative years include The Empire of Oil by Harvey O ' Connor ( 1955 ), The Political Economy of Growth by Paul Baran ( 1957 ), The United States, Cuba, and Castro by historian William Appleman Williams ( 1963 ), and Fanshen by William Hinton ( 1966 ).
In February 2010 he published Putin ’ s Oil, about Russia ’ s energy wars and their consequences for Moscow and the world.
His The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour was published in 1906.
Chart of the major energy companies dubbed " Big Oil " sorted by latest published revenue
* The Snake Oil Wars: or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again, 1989 ( also published under the title The Snake Oil Variations )
In 2004 he published a best-selling book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.
In 2005 he published the book Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's peak.
Influential papers by Campbell include The Coming Oil Crisis, written with Jean Laherrère in 1998 and credited with convincing the International Energy Agency of the coming peak ; and The End of Cheap Oil, published the same year in Scientific American.
During the next four years he studied in Paris, France ( where he founded the English-speaking Medical Society ) and Germany, and on his return to Edinburgh in 1841 he published a Treatise on Cod-liver Oil as a Therapeutic Agent.
Passantino was the author The Portrait and Figure Painting Book ( 1979 ), which has been published in seven languages ; Figures in Oil ( 1980 ); Portraits in Oil ( 1980 ); and Figure Painting Step by Step ( 2000 ).

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