Merchants wade into these pools and collect petroleum in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions.

One of the well known merchants, Hussain Ali Bin Saif Al-Roumi, was known as the leader in pearl trade throughout the region, sustaining the economy for decades before the discovery of oil.

Beer, salt, honey, wool and flour were exported, while merchants imported textiles from England, southern fruits, and cod liver oil.

The merchants of the region exported oil, grain, textiles, metal work, and pottery through the port cities to Western markets.

European merchants trading with West Africa occasionally purchased palm oil for use as a cooking oil in Europe, but palm oil was not able to supplant olive oil or butter, and culinary uses of palm oil remained rare outside West Africa until after commercial oil palm plantation development in non-African tropical regions.

The town sprang up nearly overnight in 1912, after wildcatter Tom Slick struck oil on the farm of Frank Wheeler, causing a rush of speculators, oilfield workers, and merchants into the area.

Rostov-on-Don is a trading port for Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish merchants selling, for example, wool, wheat and oil.

In the following years he opened several other oil wells, each of them as a joint-venture with various local merchants and businessmen.

According to the Register of Lords ' Interests, Lord Carlile of Berriew is inter alia a director of 5 Bell Yard Ltd and the Wynnstay Group of agricultural feed manufacturers, agricultural goods merchants and fuel oil distributors ; a Deputy High Court Judge ; a Chairman of the Competition Appeals Tribunal ; and a trustee of the White Ensign Association.

The British described the killings of the Annangs by King Jaja of Opobo as a punishment for the Annangs defying his orders and trading in palm oil directly with the British merchants instead of going through him as a middle man.

His books read like series of interlocked biographies — of arms merchants, oil company executives, etc., according to the theme of each.

European merchants trading with West Africa occasionally purchased palm oil for use in Europe, but palm kernel oil remained rare outside West Africa.

Christians converted from higher casts of Hindu religion were appointed by the temple authorities to receive the oil ( Christians were considered as merchants without cast ).

* The German economy needed more oil and controlling the Baku Oilfields would achieve this ; as Albert Speer, the German Minister for Armaments and War Production, later said in his interrogation, " the need for oil certainly was a prime motive " in the decision to invade.

In September and October 1917, there were strikes by the Moscow and Petrograd workers, the miners of the Donbas, the metalworkers of the Urals, the oil workers of Baku, the textile workers of the Central Industrial Region, and the railroad workers on 44 different railway lines.

In freight traffic, the exportation of oil from the oil wells from Baku at the Caspian Sea to the Georgian port of Batumi at the Black Sea, forms an important share of the rail transport in Azerbaijan.

Baku is the centre of a major oil-and gas-producing region, and major long-distance pipelines radiate from the region's oil fields to all neighboring areas.

It made partly obsolete the old Soviet pipeline pumping crude oil from the onshore and offshore Caspian fields near Baku west across Azerbaijan and Georgia to the port of Batumi, where the oil is either exported in its crude form or processed at Batumi's refinery.

The reference to fire may have originally referred to flames from natural gas or oil seepages surfacing through water, as in a fire temple at Surakhany near Baku in Azerbaijan ( Jivanji Jamshedji Modi 1926 ).

Some sources claim that from the 9th century, oil fields were exploited in the area around modern Baku, Azerbaijan, to produce naphtha for the petroleum industry.

When Marco Polo in 1264 visited the Azerbaijani city of Baku, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, he saw oil being collected from seeps.

Shallow pits were dug at the Baku seeps in ancient times to facilitate collecting oil, and hand-dug holes up to deep were in use by 1594.

His father sent him to be educated at King's College London, where he studied petroleum engineering, and then to examine the Russian oil industry at Baku.

Richard Sorge alerted Moscow that Japan would attack the Soviet Union from the East as soon as the German army captured any city on the Volga, thus effectively disrupting oil supplies from Baku and also ammunition and food supplies sent by the allies from the Persian Gulf through Iran, Soviet Azerbaijan and up the Volga river.

The Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan ( BTC ) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

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He then accepted an offer to accompany the student Erhard Sandgren as his private tutor to Baku, where Sandgren's father was working as an engineer in the oil fields of Robert Nobel.

* Baku oil industry workers transfer: During the German-Soviet War, in October 1942, about 10, 000 workers from the petroleum sites of Baku, together with their families, were transferred to several sites with potential oil production ( the " Second Baku " area ( Volga-Ural oil field ), Kazakhstan and Sakhalin ), in face of the potential German threat, although Germany failed to seize Baku.

Scheuering writes that Singer cut ties with Moon, and is funded by foundations and oil companies.

She writes a legal brief speculating that the assassinations were committed on behalf of Victor Mattiece, an oil tycoon wanting to drill for oil on Louisiana marshland which is a major habitat of an endangered species of pelican.

As one chemistry historian writes: " An important point of evidence is the absence in the Arabic texts of the new and original facts recorded in the Latin particularly ... nitric acid, aqua regia, oil of vitriol, silver nitrate ...." Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.

Pleeth, chemist for the Cleveland Discol company in Great Britain, writes: " The bias aroused by the use of alcohol as a motor fuel has produced results that are incompatible with each other ... Countries with considerable oil deposits -- such as the US -- or which control oil deposits of other lands -- such as Holland -- tend to produce reports antithetical to the use of fuels alternative to petrol ; countries with little or no indigenous oil tend to produce favorable reports.

For example, St. Hippolytus in his Apostolic Tradition, speaks of the holy oil “ according to ancient custom " Origen writes about the holy oil “ according to the tradition of the church " St. Cyril of Jerusalem goes into further detail in speaking about the grace of the Holy Spirit in the Holy Myron: " this oil is not just any oil after the epiclesis of the Spirit, it becomes charism of Christ and power of the Holy Spirit through the presence of the deity "

Zev Vilnai writes that " Rabbi Shmuel ben Shimshon in 1210 tells about this burial place: there is a large tree next to it, and the Ishmaelites bring oil and light a candle in his honor and make vows in his honor.

An oil painter, musician, and former semi-pro league baseball player, Swayze now writes a column containing his professional memoirs, which has been a favorite in Alter Ego magazine since 1996.

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.

By 2012, despite natural gas prices at a ten-year low and a higher Canadian dollar, oil prices had recovered enough to restart economic growth.

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

By 1982, oil would constitute half of Ghana's imports, while overall trade contracted greatly.

By 1901, the San Joaquin Basin was the main oil-producing region of California, and it remains so in the 21st century, with huge oil fields including the Midway-Sunset, Kern River, and Belridge fields producing much of California's onshore oil.

By 1937, all Harley-Davidson's flathead engines were equipped with dry-sump oil recirculation systems similar to the one introduced in the " Knucklehead " OHV engine.

By world standards, production costs for Iraqi oil are relatively low.

By late July the first ship had left with a full cargo of oil ; the rest left early in August, several filled with oil.

By early 1864, they had a producing deep oil well, named Wilhelmina for Mears ' wife, yielding 25 barrels ( 4 kL ) of crude oil daily, then considered a good yield.

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.

“ By allowing deals with Burma ’ s state-owned oil company, the U. S. looks like it caved to industry pressure and undercut Aung San Suu Kyi and others in Burma who are promoting government accountability ,” HRW ’ s Business and Human Rights Director Arvind Ganesan said.

By the 1970s, as a result of oil wealth and the modernization of the country initiated by King Faisal, important changes to Saudi society were under way and the power of the ulema was in decline.

By the end of the decade oil was Switzerland's primary energy source.

By 1955 approximately two-thirds of Europe's oil passed through the canal.

By extension, the term " snake oil salesman " may be applied to someone who sells fraudulent goods, or who is a fraud himself.

By 2008, such pressures appeared to have an insignificant impact on oil prices given the onset of the global recession.

By 1912, oil replaced coal in warships and again the Yard was scheduled for closure and the land relinquished by the Navy.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the largest Portuguese cities in the Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products-almost all the produce of a continued forced labour system.

By comparison with West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark standard for crude oil in the futures-contract market, the Green River shale oil sulfur content ranges from near 0 % to 4. 9 % ( in average 0. 76 %), where West Texas Intermediate's sulfur content has a maximum of 0. 42 %.