Oil paints fade in color and develop a yellow tint over time ; they also begin to crack with age.

* 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.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

Oil paint, which may have originated in Afghanistan between the 5th and 9th centuries and migrated westward in the Middle Ages eventually superseded tempera.

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.

Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products ( such as gasoline, diesel ) and their by-products, heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel, or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil.

Oil crisis may refer to:

Oil spills may also have indirect effects.

According Mexican Energy Minister Georgina Kessel, Mexico may seek to emulate Brazilian Oil rules that strengthened Petroleo Brasileiro SA as it considers regulation changes to revive the oil industry.

Oil City may refer to:

Oil may also create tiny holes in the latex.

Oil rig may refer to

* Production Sharing contract ( PSA )-A PSA is more complex than a Tax / Royalty system-The companies bid on the percentage of the production that the host government receives ( this may be variable with the oil price ), There is often also participation by the Government owned National Oil Company ( NOC ).

Theoretically, omega-6 fatty acid γ-linoleic acid ( GLA ), may lower the epileptic seizure threshold, and one case of status epilepticus has been reported that was assciated with borage Oil ingestion and high blood GLA levels

Oil companies apparently may have been using the Monk Seal Sanctuary project as a stalking horse to encourage greater cooperation between the Greek and Turkish governments as a preliminary to pushing for oil extraction rights in a geopolitically unstable area.

" Hong Kong Time " ( 香港時間 ) means the time used for general purposes throughout Hong Kong namely, 8 hours, or such other period as may be determined by the Legislative Council by resolution under this subsection or under section 16 of the Oil ( Conservation and Control ) Ordinance ( Cap 264 ), in advance of Universal Standard Time.

* Oil additives may reduce the tendency for galling or adhesive wear.

Oil refineries may trade a crack spread to hedge the price risk of their operations, while speculators attempt to profit from a change in the oil / gasoline price differential.

With Rockefeller lieutenants in both camps one wonders whether the NY & NE-NYNH & H " rivalry " may have been a Standard Oil " Divide & Conquer " policy to get low rates and other benefits out of both roads who together controlled nearly all rail business in New England south of the Boston & Albany.

Oil filled transformers with a conservator ( an oil tank above the transformer ) may have a gas detector relay ( Buchholz relay ).

* Burford v. Sun Oil Co., a 1943 case in which the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction may abstain from hearing the case where the state courts likely have greater expertise in a particularly complex and unclear area of state law which is of special significance to the state, where there is comprehensive state administrative / regulatory procedure, and where the federal issues cannot be decided without delving into state law.

Oil and gas exploration interest groups also lobby to explore regions that may adversely impact wildlife habitat.

Accidents such as major oil tanker groundings or sinkings may require extensive salvage efforts to try and minimize the environmental damage ( see Exxon Valdez oil spill, Amoco Cadiz, Torrey Canyon and in general: Category: Oil spills ).

Though some may have hoped he can someday draw a crowd similar to Punxsutawney Phil, Oil Valley Vick made his first and only prognostication in 2008.

His reasons for doing so may have been prompted by a pious decision to avoid duplicating true Holy Oil, or by a tacit admission that in medieval Europe, it was difficult to obtain Cinnamon and Cassia as separate products.

Oil and Gas platforms require these engines to drive compressors to inject gas into the wells to force oil up via another bore, they're also often used to provide power for the platform.

Oil sludge can be a major contributor to internal combustion engine problems, and can require the engine to be replaced, if the damage is severe.

As per Iraqi Oil Ministry estimates, the project will require a $ 25 billion investment and another $ 25 billion in operating fees creating approximately 100, 000 jobs in underdeveloped southern region.

Humble Oil also used similar logotypes, use of the Humble name in all Enco and Esso advertising, and uniform designs for all stations regardless of brand.

The unrestricted international use of the popular Esso brand prompted Exxon to continue using it outside the U. S. Esso is the only widely used Standard Oil descendant brand left in existence.

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.

Current old institutions like the Oil Workers Union and the National Education Workers Union ( Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion ) are sordid demonstrations of how the use of government benefits are not being applied to improve the quality in the investigation of the use of oil or the basic education in Mexico as long as their leaders show publicly that they are living wealthly and in the case of the Teachers Union represented by Elba Esther Gordillo, they are not allowing government to input a way to evaluate and improve the knowledge of the Mexican teachers allowing to incompetent elements to use those places to escalate in the Union or to avoid the responsibility for they were hired.

Magnetic anomaly detectors employed to detect submarines during World War II harnessed the fluxgate magnetometer, an inexpensive and easy to use technology developed in the 1930s by Victor Vacquier of Gulf Oil for finding ore deposits.

Oil drilling to this petroleum reservoir could use Directional drilling to accurately target the 28 ft thick space, 8, 500ft underground.

Patrick Tormey also sold land in the nearby town of Oleum to the California Lumber Co. for use as a lumberyard ( which eventually would be sold to the Union Oil Co. for an oil refinery site ).

It also used the Esso brand in New York and the six New England states, where the Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony-Vacuum, later Socony-Mobil ) had the rights, but did not object to the New Jersey company's use of the trademark ( the two companies did not merge until 1998 ).

However, in the other states, the other Standard Oil companies objected and forced Jersey Standard to use other brand names.

* Oil lamp, the original use of the term

Other responses include the development of unconventional oil sources such as synthetic fuel from places like the Athabasca Oil Sands, more renewable energy commercialization and use of alternative propulsion.

The Cyclic Steam Stimulation or " huff-and-puff " method has been in use by Imperial Oil at Cold Lake since 1985 and is also used by Canadian Natural Resources at Primrose and Wolf Lake and by Shell Canada at Peace River.

Oil of spike lavender has also occasionally been used as a solvent in oil painting, mainly before the use of distilled turpentine became common.

( 36 variations on the Sergio Ortega song El pueblo unido jamás será vencido ), a set of virtuosic piano variations written as a companion piece to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations ; Coming Together, which is a setting of letters from Sam Melville, an inmate at Attica State Prison, at the time of the famous riots there ( 1971 ); North American Ballads ; Night Crossing with Fisherman ; Fougues ; Fantasia and Sonata ; The Price of Oil, and Le Silence des Espaces Infinis, both of which use graphical notation ; Les Moutons de Panurge ; and the Antigone-Legend, which features a principled opposition to the policies of the State, and which was premiered on the night that the United States bombed Libya in April 1986 ( ibid ).

He appealed to the readers that for safer and better sex, they should use condoms and put Love Oil over it.

Oil companies often use technology to manage the gasoline inventories at the service stations that they supply ( see Petrolsoft Corporation ).

* Oil drip feed systems continuously lubricate the chain and use light oil that does not stick to the chain.

Even so, the theoretical importance of the use of alternative scenarios, to help address the uncertainty implicit in long-range forecasts, was dramatically underlined by the widespread confusion which followed the Oil Shock of 1973.

Oil was melted from the blubber and shipped to America for use in machinery, before petroleum was used.

Black Oil Sunflower seeds also contain a large amount of fat ; therefore they are especially good to use in the winter.

It was sued in 1931 by Standard Oil of Indiana ( which was interested in expanding its marketing influence into the Colorado area ) over use of the " Standard Oil " name.