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.

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 in the mid-1860s brought the high-water mark of the Society's prosperity.

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.

Vacuum Oil Company started selling lubricating oils in Europe in the late 19th century.

Limited amounts of income from the United Nations started flowing into Iraq through the United Nations Oil for Food program.

Production started in 1891 by Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England under the title Hornsby Akroyd Patent Oil Engine under licence.

The business that became Gulf Oil started in 1901 with the discovery of oil at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas.

Oil production started from Rawdhatain in 1955 and Minagish in 1959.

The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( later BP ), British-American Tobacco, Lever Brothers ( later Unilever ) and Shell.

Bair was the first to drill oil in this area and started the Bair Oil Company for which the town was named.

In 1919, Erle Halliburton started the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company.

Since Great Canadian Oil Sands ( now Suncor ) started operation of its mine in 1967, bitumen has been extracted on a commercial scale from the Athabasca Oil Sands by surface mining.

In 1870, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil Company of Ohio and started his strategy of buying up the competition and consolidating all oil refining under one company.

Pacer started EON Oil to supply the demand.

This institution of higher education started as a branch of the Azerbaijani Oil Academy in 1991, but became independent and was developed into Mingecevir Polytechnic Institute the same year.

Practical development of scenario forecasting, to guide strategy rather than for the more limited academic uses which had previously been the case, was started by Pierre Wack in 1971 at the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies-and it, too, was given impetus by the Oil Shock two years later.

Oil drilling was started by Caltex in 1961.

Oil production started in 1976 with about of oil per day increasing to.

Daytona 500 qualifying started at 12 noon, then the ARCA Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at 4: 30 PM, and the Budweiser Shootout was held at 8 PM.

The Oil Heritage District Community Centre was opened in Petrolia in 2006, after twenty years of campaigning by the group " The Oil Heritage District Community Centre Association " which was started in 1985.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

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.

* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.

The Esso name was a trademark of Jersey Standard Oil, and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its similarity to the name of the parent company, Standard Oil.

As a result, Jersey Standard was restricted from using Esso in the U. S., except in those states awarded to it in the 1911 Standard Oil antitrust settlement.

In 1967, Humble Oil purchased all remaining Signal stations from Standard Oil Company of California ( Chevron ) and rebranded them as Enco outlets, greatly increasing Enco's presence in California.

In 1966, the U. S. Justice Department ordered Humble Oil to " cease and desist " from using the Esso brand at stations in several southeastern states, following protests from Standard Oil of Kentucky ( Kyso ), which was a Standard of California subsidiary in the process of rebranding its Standard stations to Chevron.

But Humble Oil still faced stiff competition from such national brands such as Shell and Texaco, which at that time was the only company to market under one brand name in all 50 states.

At the same time, the company changed its corporate name from Standard Oil of New Jersey to Exxon Corporation.

* Oil filter, a filter to remove contaminants from engine oil, transmission oil, lubricating oil, or hydraulic oil

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.

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.

Oil, natural gas and other resources are, for the most part, imported from other countries.

Born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Bailey played junior hockey with the Edmonton Oil Kings from 1964 to 1967.

In that same year, a major oil pipeline was constructed from Caddo-Pine Island Field to a refinery built and operated by Standard Oil Company of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Lucas Oil Stadium will also host the Drum Corps International World Championships from 2009 until 2018.