* 1976 – The oil tanker runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.

For example, the Arnish yard has had a chequered history but has been a significant employer in both the oil and renewables industries.

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

* 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

During the 1950s and 1960s gradually increasing oil revenues brought prosperity, rapid immigration, substantial social progress, and the beginnings of Qatar's modern history.

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.

In 1976 Lamar University dedicated the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum to preserve the history of the Spindletop oil gusher era in Beaumont.

While traditionally ascribed to the French painter and cook Claude Gelée who lived in the 17th century ( the story goes that Gelée was making a type of very buttery bread for his sick father, and the process of rolling the butter into the bread dough created a croissant-like finished product ), references appear before the 17th century, indicating a history that came originally through Muslim Spain and was converted from thin sheets of dough spread with olive oil to laminated dough with layers of butter, perhaps in Italy or Germany.

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.

Officially opened in 1972, the museum focuses on Islamic history, natural history, Brunei artifacts and customs, ceramics and the oil industry of Brunei.

:: The History and Technology of Brunei Darussalam's Petroleum Gallery: The state's main industry is presented in this gallery, covering descriptive narratives on the origin and formation of oil, process of drilling, refining, the history of the petroleum industry in Brunei and a map depicting current oil fields.

On March 16, 1978, the very large crude carrier Amoco Cadiz ran ashore just north of Landunvez, Finistère, Brittany, France, causing one of the largest oil spills in 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.

In an event noted by Aristotle, Klazomenians also appear as financial pioneers in economic history, for having used one commodity ( olive oil ), in an organized manner and on a city-scale, to purchase another ( wheat ), with interests refundable on the value of the first.

Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars and wrote, " The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them " and criticized its liberties with historical facts: " There is no sense of history, strategy or context ; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve.

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.

Within a year the Santa Fe Springs oil field was considered one of the richest pools in petroleum history.

Pleasant High School's mascot, the Oiler, is also a reference to the city's long history with oil.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

Now, driving the horse and sulky borrowed from Mynheer Schuyler, he felt as if every bone was topped by burning oil and that every muscle was ready to dissolve into jelly and leave his big body helpless and unable to move.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

This has survived the years but there has been considerable concern among the tenants over the fact that the oil was not metered.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

Another remedy was oil of eucalyptus, used as well for chilblains.

Almond oil, another nondrying oil, was once used extensively in perfumery to extract flower fragrances.

Exports from producing countries in terms of equivalent oil were a little more than 1 million tons, about half of which was palm kernels or oil from them and about half was palm oil.

Not included was the value of seed oil in paints and varnishes or the value of the coffee and chocolate industries that are based on imported seed or seed products.

Buzz had on a Hawaiian shirt and was carrying some sun-tan oil and dark glasses.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Instead, the value of the AMD was kept high, out of a fear of inflation and concern about alienating the powerful government-connected importers of oil, sugar, flour, cigarettes and beverages.

Castor oil, made from castorbeans, has gone out of style as a medicine.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

* In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess uses " ambrosian oil " as perfume, " divinely sweet, and made fragrant for her sake.

Grain was cleaned, and rations of grain and oil were distributed in standardized vessels made by the city's potters.

Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.

In 2005, the transportation sector made up 4. 2 % of Canada's GDP, compared to 3. 7 % for Canada's mining and oil and gas extraction industries.

It is made from soybean oil, garlic, shallots, chillies, brill fish, and dried shrimp.

* Marinades made with olive oil, brown sugar, and citrus juices

However, unlike the French, it is made with oil or bacon fat and more lately olive oil, and not butter, and it is used as a thickening agent, especially in gumbo and étouffée.

The backbone of a gumbo is roux of which there are two variations: acadian, a golden brown roux, and creole, a dark roux, which is made of flour, toasted until well-browned, and fat or oil.

Some algae may store food in the form of oil droplets. Green algae usually have a rigid cell wall made up of an inner layer of cellulose and outer layer of pectose.

They used this, yet it burned for eight days ( the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready ).

These imports declined sharply to an average of only US $ 50 million annually between 1985 and 1987, presumably as a result of a dramatic reduction in oil revenues and the precipitous drop in the value of the sucre, which made imported arms extremely expensive.

In Italy, carpaccio is a dish of very thinly sliced raw beef, drizzled with a vinaigrette made with olive oil.

Five Guys and Chick-fil-A, for example, both advertise that their fries are prepared in peanut oil, while In-N-Out advertises that their fries are made using vegetable oil.

Solan secures funding from an Arab oil sheik who happens to be vacationing in Flåklypa, and to enter the race, the trio builds a gigantic racing car: Il Tempo Gigante — a fabulous construction with two extremely big engines ( weighing 2. 8 tons alone and making the seismometer in Bergen show 7. 8 Richter when started the first time ), a body made out of copper, a spinning radar ( that turns out to be useful when Blodstrupmoen starts engaging in smoke warfare during the race ) and its own blood bank.

The discovery of oil and gas deposits along the coast and offshore, combined with easy access to shipping, have made the Gulf Coast the heart of the U. S. petrochemical industry.

The only thing all these variations have in common is the original gazpacho, in other words, the basic paste made of garlic, which works as an emulsifier bread, the olive oil, the vinegar and salt.

In Extremadura, gazpachos are a kind of purée or thick gazpacho known as cojondongo, or cojondongo del gañán, made of breadcrumbs, garlics, oil, vinegar and on the top of that chopped onions, tomato and peppers.

* Horta: wild or cultivated greens, steamed or blanched and made into salad, simply dressed with lemon juice and olive oil.

It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a generous amount of olive oil usually served with a variety of salty side dishes.

* Psarosoupa ' fish soup ' can be made with a variety of fish, and several kinds of vegetables ( carrots, parsley, celery, potatoes, onion ), several varieties include the classic kakavia which is drizzled with olive oil.