* ATP Oil and Gas, a Texas-based oil and gas company that operates in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea

Oil and gas exports have been possible because of increasing pipeline technology.

* Support Activities for Mining & Oil & Gas Extraction ( primarily oil and gas exploration and drilling )

Oil and gas are extracted in the Cooper Basin around Moomba.

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.

Oil, natural gas and other resources are, for the most part, imported from other countries.

* Handbook of Texas Online: Oil and gas industry

Significant discoveries of petroleum and natural gas, an extension of the West Siberian Oil Basin, have been made but have not yet been developed.

* Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise ( MOGE ) is a national oil and gas company of Burma.

Category: Oil and gas companies of Australia

* 8 companies control our oil and gas ( Husky Energy ) ( Imperial Oil ) ( Nexe ) ( Petro-Canada ) ( Shell Canada ) ( Suncor Energy ) ( Syncrude Canada ) ( Talisman Energy )

The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.

Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80 % of Russian exports abroad.

# Gas-prone sources containing Type I kerogen in Upper Triassic fluvial shales and Paleocene marine shales, the latter being correlative of oil and gas generating source rocks of the Deep Continental Shelf trend of the Bombay High Oil Province offshore west India ;

The most recent wildcat by Enterprise Oil in 1995 detected gas but failed to find hydrocarbons.

Oil and natural gas discoveries in the extreme northeastern portion of the Jazira have significantly enhanced the region's economic potential.

Oil and gas was first landed at Sullom Voe in 1978, and it has subsequently become one of the largest terminals in Europe.

Oil and gas account for about 40 % of GDP and 80 % of exports, but only 5 % of employment.

* Oil and gas were discovered in many countries in the former Soviet bloc, leading to economic growth and wider adoption of trade between nations.

Oil shale gas has served as a substitute for natural gas, but, producing oil shale gas as a natural-gas substitute remained economically infeasible.

( IPR Strategic Business Information Database, Dec 18, 2003 ) Libya's National Oil Corporation formed a joint venture with Societe Tunisienne de l ' Electricite et du Gaz to construct a national gas pipeline between the two countries.

Oil and gas pipelines also figure prominently in the politics of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80 % of Russian exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices.

The sale would have given Humble Oil a large number of existing Flying A stations and distributorships, as well as a refinery in California, the nation's fastest-growing gasoline market.

Oil has been discovered nearby as well.

On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

An intended drinking water well at Oil Springs, Ontario found oil in 1858, a year before the Drake well, but it had not been drilled for 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.

The olive ( or, Olea europaea, meaning " Oil from / of Europe ") is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin ( the adjoining coastal areas of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa ) as well as northern Iraq, and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.

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.

Led by the Canadian oil company Africa Oil and its partner Range Resources, initial drilling in the Shabeel-1 well on Puntland's Dharoor Block in March of the year successfully yielded oil.

The American Merrimac Oil Company drilled what is said to be, " the first successful well in the world " at La Brea at Trinidad and Tobago in 1857, where oil was struck at.

Following that, the 1970s Energy Crisis ensued which included the 1973 – 75 recession, the 1973 Oil Crisis as well as the 1979 energy crisis beginning as a prelude to a disastrous economic climate injected with stagflation ; the combination between high unemployment and high inflation.

In 1947 Indiana Standard was the first company to drill off-shore, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in 1948 Stanolind Oil invented Hydrafrac, a hydraulic well fracturing process that increased oil production worldwide.

* Oil and gas well drilling, US Department of Labor

The discovery well of the Kern River Oil Field was dug by hand in 1899.

One of the more well known trusts was the Standard Oil Company ; John D. Rockefeller in the 1870s and 1880s had used economic threats against competitors and secret rebate deals with railroads to build what was called a monopoly in the oil business, though some minor competitors remained in business.

Oil produced by the well was shipped in barrels to the nearest refinery in Kansas, where it was sold for $ 1. 00 a barrel.

In October 1897, the Phoenix Oil Company drilled the first successful oil well on the Osage reservation and Oklahoma Territory.

The Hartford City Gas & Oil Company was formed in early 1887, and successfully drilled a natural gas well later in the year.

Oil was also found in parts of Washington Township, including a well that was thought to be " the most phenomenal well ever drilled in America ".

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.

Oil and Gas Exploration-Nuclear well logging is used to help predict the commercial viability of new or existing wells.