That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The following week, Ross McCollum, president of the National Oil Company, wrote an open letter to Dabney House stating that in light of their actions he had decided not to donate one million dollars to Caltech.

Syriam had the refinery of the Burmah Oil Company, " the surrounding land a barren waste, all vegetation killed off by the fumes of sulphur dioxide pouring out day and night from the stacks of the refinery.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

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.

Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

Oil production had reached a level of 560, 000 m³ ( 3. 5 million barrels ) per day, and oil revenues were 21 billion in 1979 and 27 G $ in 1980.

By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.

The fact that rebates had been given was not contested ; what was at issue was whether Standard Oil knew the railroad's posted rates, and if it had a duty to enquire if it did not.

In 1935, Socony Vacuum Oil opened the huge Mammoth Oil Port on Staten Island which had a capacity of handling a quarter of million gallons of petroleum products a year and could transship oil from ocean going tankers and river barges

* 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.

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.

Henry Rogers was a self-made man, who had risen from a modest working-class family to become a principal of Standard Oil, and had become one of the richest men in the United States.

In the 1970s, Hollings joined with fellow senators Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

Carl Bildt joined the Board of Directors of Lundin Oil AB in 2000, after serious concerns had surfaced that the oil industry was exacerbating the war in Sudan.

Lundin Oil was the lead operator of a consortium that worked in an area that had become the centre stage of Sudan's civil war.

Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the legendary Mellon family fortune ; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The acquired company had previously bought a half interest in the American Oil Company, which marketed half of PAT's oil in the United States.

Bolivia invaded in July 1932 and, despite its legitimate claim to what historically had been its territory, its government's ties to Standard Oil of New Jersey ( with whom the Argentine government was in dispute over its alleged pirating of oil in Salta Province ) led Buenos Aires to withhold diplomatic efforts until, in June 1935, a cease-fire was signed.

This was a name that had previously been used as a nickname for the Edmonton Oil Kings in the 1950s and 1960s.

Gulf's holdings could have been converted into 2,700,877 shares of Union Oil common upon surrender of debentures plus cash, according to Union.

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

Oil exploration in Ethiopia has been underway for decades, ever since Emperor Haile Selassie granted a 50-year concession to SOCONY-Vacuum in September 1945.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

Oil has been discovered nearby as well.

She writes that he has been a paid consultant for many years for ARCO, ExxonMobil, Shell, Sun Oil Company, and Unocal, and that SEPP has received grants from ExxonMobil.

Much of the activities of the " Go Beyond Oil " campaign have been focused on drilling for oil in the Arctic and areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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

He has been dubbed the Grandfather of the American Oil Industry by historians.

Oil would help boost the economy of Zanzibar, but there have been disagreements about dividends between the Tanzanian mainland and Zanzibar, the latter claiming the oil should be excluded in Union matters.

Construction is budgeted at $ 200 million, of which $ 50 million has been allocated from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan ( SOFAZ ).

Oil exploration has been successful in the Chinese and North Korean portions of the sea, with the proven and estimated reserves of about 9 and 20 billion tonnes, respectively.

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.

* Egg Oil ( INCI: Egg Oil ) has often been used with success, since it contains antioxidant xanthophylls like Lutein and Zeaxanthin, Cholesterol and long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids ( Omega-3, Omega-6 ) like Docosahexaenoic acid and Arachidonic acid.

There's been much debate over Karzai's alleged consultant work with Unocal ( Union Oil Company of California since acquired by Chevron in 2005 ).

Oil was discovered in Roberts County in 1945, and had been produced through 1990.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1942, and by 1991, had been taken from Coke County lands.

Oil was discovered at Bartlesville and Burbank in 1897.

Oil in the San Joaquin Basin was first discovered at the Coalinga field in 1890.

The Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, the largest oil field in the United States in terms of total oil produced, was discovered in 1968.

* 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

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.

Oil reserves discovered in the later 20th century in the seas both east and west of Shetland have provided a much needed alternative source of income for the islands.

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

Oil was discovered at Burgan in 1938 but it was not until 1946 that the first crude oil was shipped.

Oil was first discovered in the famous Salt Creek Oil Field in 1889, approximately 40 miles ( 64 km ) north of Casper ; the first refinery in Casper was built in 1895.

Oil was discovered at Grandfalls in 1929, and the nearby community of Royalty was established.

* 1930 Oil is discovered at the McFaddin Oil Field.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1940 Terry County lies in the oil-rich north Permian Basin, and the discovery of oil quickly led to production.

* 1929 Oil is discovered in the county.

Oil was discovered in Sterling County in 1947 and helped to bail out the area's declining economy.

* 1923 Oil is discovered at the Big Lake Oilfield in the Permian Basin.

* 1982 Oil is discovered in Mills County.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1950.

Oil was discovered in 1921, leading to a population increase in Loving County.