Oil production surpassed the exportation of coffee as Angola's largest export in 1973.

Oil production is now declining from its peak of in 1997.

Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85 % of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10 % of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province.

Oil production in the Los Angeles Basin started with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field in 1880, and continued with the development of the Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1893, the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 1900, the Salt Lake Oil Field in 1902, and many others.

The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field in 1921, which proved to be the world's richest in production per-acre of the time, increased the importance of the Los Angeles Basin as a worldwide oil producer.

An oil exploration consortium consisting of the Venezuelan state oil company, Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc. ( Petróleos de Venezuela, S. A .-- PDVSA ), Cambria Oil, and Texaco expressed interest in the construction of a refinery at Puerto Castilla in 1993, with production aimed at the local market.

Oil production started from the Argyll field ( now Ardmore ) in June 1975, followed by Forties in November of that year.

Hanover was an important road junction, railhead and production centre that was a target for strategic bombing during World War II, including the Oil Campaign.

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.

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

On November 14, 1925, the Yount-Lee Oil Company brought in its McFaddin No. 2 at a depth of about, sparking a second boom, which culminated in the field's peak production year of 1927, during which 21 millions barrels ( 3. 3 GL ) were produced.

* Oil production: 0 barrels / day ( 2001 estimate )

Oil production rose rapidly to in 2004, but output is believed to have peaked and is expected to decline gradually.

Oil production figures from International Energy Agency | IEA in millions of barrels per day

A 2004 report by the United States Department of Energy stated that both the Shell technology and technology used in the Stuart Oil Shale Project could be competitive at prices above $ 25 per barrel, and that the Viru Keemia Grupp expected full-scale production to be economical at prices above $ 18 per barrel ($ 130 / m < sup > 3 </ sup >).

* " This Oven Makes Oil Out Of Rocks ", February 1949, Popular Science primer article with illustrations on basic of the oil shale production process

Years of production left in the ground with the most optimistic proved reserve estimates ( Oil & Gas Journal, World Oil )

* Oil or gas well completion, the process of making a well ready for production.

grappled with the new antitrust statutes ( Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States ), upheld the constitutionality of military conscription ( Selective Draft Law Cases ) and brought the substantive due process doctrine to its first apogee ( Adkins v. Children's Hospital ).

Lay sells off several profitable operations including Northern Petrochemical, PEAK anti-freeze, EVAL resins which makes plastic food packaging possible and brought in silent partnerships in Northern Liquid Fuels, Northern Natural Resources and Northern Engineering, Enron Oil Trading and Transport, Enron Exploration and Enron Cogeneration thus hiding burgeoning debt.

Wildcatter George McCamey ’ s Baker No. 1 in September 1925 opened up the McCamey Oil Field, established the town of McCamey and brought the subsequent oil boom to Upton County.

Oil and gas made its debut in 1929 and brought a period of economic development and prosperity unparalleled anywhere in the state.

Oil was not a major economic factor again until new reserves were brought in near Many in the 1950s.

Oil brought a boom to the town but this was only a peak in its continuous growth.

The Olla Oil Field brought a fresh influx of people and is large producer of light sweet crude and natural gas.

1928 brought in Shell Oil Company breaking ground on a new refinery.

Oil development during the 1920s brought new industries.

McCamey is named for George B. McCamey, whose 1925 wildcat well, discovering the McCamey Oil Field, brought about the oil boom in the region.

In 1906, N & W president Lucius E. Johnson was brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends: Henry Huttleston Rogers.

< center > Oil Platform P-51 off the Brazil ian coast is a semi-submersible platform .</ center > An oil platform, often referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a large structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing.

Indeed, a subhead on the cover of Weinberg's book encapsulates it this way: " How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.

At the cusp of the 1980s, the 1974 Oil Embargo, the Iranian Revolution, the Nation of Islam and a new wave of cold-war generated Muslim immigrants to Europe and North America brought Islam squarely into the public limelight for the first time in Western Europe and North America.

It was particularly helpful when the Mexican Supreme Court, in a case brought by Texas Oil, declared that Article 27 did not apply retroactively.

The discovery of oil by Standard Oil Company in the Montebello hills, in 1917, brought about a revolutionary change to the locality.

After the Depression, Prohibition, and a relocation of the railroad headquarters, the small town slowly declined in population until Houston's Oil boom in the 1970s and 1980s brought merchants back to the area to make the town what it is today.

Finally, well into 1906, at the request of Rogers, famous industrialist turned philanthropist Andrew Carnegie brought President Lucius E. Johnson of the Norfolk & Western Railway to Rogers ' office in the Standard Oil Building in New York.

In 1906, as N & W president, Johnson had the dubious distinction of being brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends, millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers.

In 1981, a world-wide fall in copper prices brought about the acquisition of Kennecott by Standard Oil of Ohio ( SOHIO ).

The village was brought to media attention in the first half of 2009 when a series of strikes at the Lindsey Oil Refinery broke out over the use of foreign labour.

It is said that he brought the Holy Anointing Oil with him and that the St. Thomas Christians still have this oil to this day.

The Patchogue Oil Company, brought under the Amerada Hess Company in 1977, was responsible for an oil spill in the Gowanus Canal on January 3, 1976, when more than of number 6 crude oil was spilled into the Gowanus Canal.