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 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.

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.

* Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas ( 1976 )

By late 1976, Garrett moved to Sydney to complete his law degree, and Farm changed its name to Midnight Oil by drawing the name out of a hat.

Sunoco Inc. () is an American petroleum and petrochemical manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formerly known as Sun Company Inc. ( 1886 – 1920 and 1976 – 1998 ) and Sun Oil Co. ( 1920 – 1976 ).

With increased diversification, Sun Oil Company was renamed Sun Company in 1976.

In 1976, the Oil Kings succumbed to the competing Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association and relocated to Portland to become the Winter Hawks, the WCHL's first American franchise.

Examples of these sovereign wealth funds include the Australian Government Future Fund, the Government Pension Fund in Norway, the Stabilization Fund of the Russian Federation, the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan, Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund of Alberta, Canada, and the Future Generations Fund of the State of Kuwait established in 1976.

* Cairns, Jim, Oil in troubled waters, 1976

Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976.

Getty Oil took over the site in the 1970s and continued receiving nuclear fuel rods and dumping nuclear waste until 1976 when, after numerous releases to the ground and atmosphere, public concern over contamination led the DEC to withdraw its permit for discharges into Buttermilk Creek.

* Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks ( 1976 ), the sequel of the infamous Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS.

Oil and real estate heiress Roz Franks bought the Chateau in 1976 for $ 313, 000, but lost title three years later to land developer George Benny in a legal battle.

Getty died in 1976 and left the bulk of his estate, including nearly $ 660 million worth of stock in Getty Oil, to the J. Paul Getty Museum Trust.

* Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, a 1976 sexploitation film

In 1976, Procter & Gamble introduced sunflower oil under the trade name Puritan Oil, which was marketed as a lower-cholesterol alternative.

The company withdrew from gasoline marketing in the northeastern U. S. in 1972 ( although it has been returning ; for example, there is a Phillips 66 in Westport, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts ), and sold the former Tidewater properties on the West Coast to The Oil & Shale Corporation ( Tosco ) in 1976.

During Burns ' tenure, the consumer price index rose from 6 %/ year in early 1970 to over 12 %/ year in late 1974 after the Arab Oil embargo, and eventually falling to under 7 %/ year from 1976 to the end of his tenure in January, 1978, with an annual average rate of consumer price inflation of approximately 9 % during his term.

The Oil Kings moved to Portland, Oregon in 1976, to become the Portland Winter Hawks.

Oil production started in 1976 with about increasing to.

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.

* Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks ( 1976 )

Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band from Sydney formed in 1976 with vocalist Peter Garrett, drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboardist / lead guitarist Jim Moginie, Guitarist Martin Rotsey joined in 1977 and Midnight Oil established their own record label Powderworks, they released their second album Head Injuries on this label in October 1979.