Oil paints may require the use of solvents such as mineral spirits or turpentine to thin the paint and clean up ; these generally have some level of toxicity and are often found objectionable.

* Oil paint and oil painting, using paints based on vegetable oils

Oil paints have been used in Europe since the 12th century for simple decoration, but were not widely adopted as an artistic medium until the early 15th century.

Oil paints also blend well with each other, making subtle variations of color possible as well as more easily creating details of light and shadow.

Oil paints can be diluted with turpentine or other thinning agents which allowed an artist to build a painting in layers, however, such agents are highly flammable and the danger of a studio fire was always present.

The ( London ) Times on Tuesday 12 March 1793 carried an advertisement that informs the reader that the British Colour Company, No. 32, Walbrook, London continues to use, manufacture and sell paints prepared with the Oil of Coal, which is of a very penetrating nature, and hardens wood in an uncommon degree protecting it from weather, dry rot and ice.

Oil based paints are normally cleaned with a natural or synthetic solvent such as mineral spirits, again using a toothbrush to remove all traces of paint.

Other compounds used to color tissue sections include safranin, Oil Red O, congo red, silver salts and artificial dyes.

Oil paint, which has a medium that is quite different, which isn't water based, always leaves a slick of oil, or puddle of oil, around the edge of the color.

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Most of DW's drums can be custom-ordered to suit the customer's needs with a wide array of shell sizes ( from 8 " to 28 " drums ), finishes ( Exotic, Lacquer, Satin Oil, Hard Satin, Graphics, and FinishPly wraps ), and hardware color ( chrome, satin chrome, 24-karat gold, black chrome, and black nickel ) in any of DW's Custom Shops.

Oil paint is then applied with his fingers and left to dry fully before a new color is applied.

Between June 2009 and February 2010 the Iraqi Oil Ministry tendered for the award of Service Contracts to develop Iraq's existing oil fields.

This shortage of natural rubber prompted the chemists at American companies such as Du Pont and Standard Oil, and researchers at Harvard University, to strive to develop factory-made alternatives-artificial rubber for all uses, including vehicle tires, tank tracks, gaskets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing.

Gulf Oil and Texaco, now part of Chevron Corporation, were formed to develop production at Spindletop.

Ergash Shaismatov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, announced on August 30, 2006, that the Uzbek government and an international consortium consisting of state-run Uzbekneftegaz, LUKoil Overseas, Petronas, Korea National Oil Corporation, and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a production-sharing agreement to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Aral Sea, saying, " The Aral Sea is largely unknown, but it holds a lot of promise in terms of finding oil and gas.

He argued that Standard Oil, corporate interests and the conservative political opposition were conspiring to stop him from providing roads, books and other programs to develop the state and help the poor.

The Belmont Oil Company planned to develop oil fields in Leola, too.

In 1937 Pure Oil Company ( now part of Chevron Corporation ) and its partner Superior Oil Company ( now part of ExxonMobil Corporation ) used a fixed platform to develop a field in of water, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

The USGS found several small oil fields, most notably the Umiat Oil Field, but none were cost-effective to develop.

Elf Aquitaine spent millions of dollars in the 1979 Great Oil Sniffer Hoax to develop a new " gravity wave-based oil detection system ", which was later revealed to be a scam, and lost over $ 150 million.

As to the coal beds on the Crow reservation, the Secretary of the Interior approved a coal lease negotiated by the Crow Tribe with Shell Oil Company in 1983 to develop this coal resource.

Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers ( a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ), to develop the Deepwater Railway, a modest 85-mile long short line railroad to access untapped bituminous coal reserves in some of the most rugged sections of southern West Virginia.

In 1861 he and a friend set out for the mountains of Pennsylvania, and helped develop oil and natural gas resources there during the U. S. Civil War, eventually becoming one of the key men with John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and a multi-millionaire.

In 1952, Sagami Railway purchased the 25, 000 ㎡ land around Yokohama Station's west entrance from Standard Oil company, and began to develop to attract department stores.

In 1937 Pure Oil Company ( now part of Chevron Corporation ) and its partner Superior Oil Company ( now part of ExxonMobil Corporation ) used a fixed platform to develop a field in of water, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

In 1979, Sun formed Suncor by merging its Canadian refining and retailing interests ; Great Canadian Oil Sands ( a majority-owned subsidiary, which constructed and operated the first commercial plant to develop Canada's Athabasca oil sands and went on production in 1967 ); and its conventional oil and gas interests.

In 2006, CNPC formed an international consortium with state-run Uzbekneftegaz, LUKoil Overseas, Petronas, and Korea National Oil Corporation to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Aral Sea.

) Oil paint films can become increasingly yellow and brittle with time and lose much of their flexibility in a few decades.

Image: Vincent van Gogh-Zonnebloemen-Google Art Project. jpg | Sunflowers ( F. 458 ), repetition of the 4th version ( yellow background ) Oil on canvas, 95 × 73 cmVan Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Image: Van Gogh Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers. jpg | Sunflowers ( F. 457 ), replica of the 4th version ( yellow green background ) Oil on canvas, 100 × 76 cmSompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan.

* See Interactive Map over Oil and Gas Resources in the North 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.

Oil prices 1968 – 2006 ; peak is 1980, with steep decline over 1980s.

* March 19 – The United Nations launches a political corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.

The rights to the brand in the United States are owned by Gulf Oil Limited Partnership ( GOLC ), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cumberland Farms and operates over 2, 100 service stations and several petroleum terminals ; it is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

In 1934, Imperial Oil of Canada took over the sponsorship from General Motors Products of Canada and the broadcast became known as the Imperial Esso Hockey Broadcast.

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.

The south-eastern part of the island has undergone small scale oil and gas capturing from possibly as early as 1919 when the British Union Oil Company acquired over 75 % of the drilling rights in Barbados.

* Web site of the Tate Turner Collection, includes the " Turner Bequest " of over 300 Oil paintings and over 30, 000 sketches.

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

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.

In 1901 a donation of over £ 3, 000 by Catherine Deterding, the wife of the managing director and founder of the Shell Oil Company, enabled the purchase of land around an existing chapel to build a new church.

The operational activities within these fields, as well as Occidental Petroleum's Elk Hills Oil Field north of Taft, have been the economic life blood of the town for over 100 years.

In the early days of the boom, Noble residents placed Noble a large sign over Route 50 in the village reading " Noble, The Oil Center of the World ," in August 1937.

Oil Hill Grade School bused their kids over to Towanda Grade School for classes.

Opponents are concerned about air, water, and noise pollution ; environmental degradation of nearby food crops such as soy beans, corn, and alfalfa ; negative effects on the ethanol fuel market and competition with local ethanol producing farmers ; displacement of some local residents and population resettling ; potential industrial disasters including explosions, leaks, and spills, reminiscent of the recent explosion at a similar-capacity Texas City Oil Refinery that caused the deaths of 15 workers and injured over 100 ; contamination potential threats of terrorism ; and concerns of the sheer size of the facility, which will be over twice the area of Elk Point itself.

Western businesses General American Oil and British-South American Petrol get the states of San Theodoros and Nuevo Rico to go to war over territory which turns out not to have oil after all.

After being taken over by Nazi Germany, the Cîmpina refineries were bombed in Operation Tidal Wave by the Allies during the Oil Campaign of World War II.

Former Humble Oil manager Edward L. Patton was put in charge of the new company and began to lobby strongly in favor of an Alaska Native claims settlement to resolve the disputes over the pipeline right of way.

The list came from over 15, 000 documents which were reportedly found in the state-owned Iraqi oil corporation, which had close links to the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

Furthermore, he was facing a looming crisis over the controversial role of the U. S .- based Standard Oil Corporation during the conflict.

In 1909 he signed over 73, 000 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey, valued at $ 50 million, to the three inaugural trustees, Junior, Gates and Harold Fowler McCormick, the first installment of a projected $ 100 million endowment.