That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

An example of this is the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Reserves Settlement that was declared binding upon both US and non-US plaintiffs.

Bombed as a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Erfurt suffered only limited damage and was captured on 12 April 1945, by the US 80th Infantry Division.

Oil was 5. 5 %, as it is the most expensive common commodity used to produce electrical energy.

From 1972 to 1999, Exxon was the corporate name of the company previously known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey or Jersey Standard.

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.

The Humble brand was used at Texas stations for decades, as those operations were under the direction of Jersey Standard affiliate Humble Oil & Refining Company.

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.

In addition, Humble Oil was a major promoter and broadcast sponsor for college football in the Pacific-8 ( now Pac-12 ) and Southwestern conferences.

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.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

He was founder of Astral Oil Works in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York.

Oil was discovered at Bartlesville and Burbank in 1897.

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.

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

Oil in the San Joaquin Basin was first discovered at the Coalinga field in 1890.

Oil has been discovered nearby as well.

The Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, the largest oil field in the United States in terms of total oil produced, was discovered in 1968.

* 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

Oil had been discovered there by Standard Oil Company in the 1920s, and people wondered whether an immense pool of oil was lying beneath the entire area.

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 reserves discovered in the later 20th century in the seas both east and west of Shetland have provided a much needed alternative source of income for the islands.

* Oil and gas were discovered in many countries in the former Soviet bloc, leading to economic growth and wider adoption of trade between nations.

* Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the richest group of people in the world.

Oil was discovered at Burgan in 1938 but it was not until 1946 that the first crude oil was shipped.

Oil was first discovered in the famous Salt Creek Oil Field in 1889, approximately 40 miles ( 64 km ) north of Casper ; the first refinery in Casper was built in 1895.

Oil was discovered at Grandfalls in 1929, and the nearby community of Royalty was established.

* 1930 Oil is discovered at the McFaddin Oil Field.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1940 Terry County lies in the oil-rich north Permian Basin, and the discovery of oil quickly led to production.

* 1929 Oil is discovered in the county.

Oil was discovered in Sterling County in 1947 and helped to bail out the area's declining economy.

* 1923 Oil is discovered at the Big Lake Oilfield in the Permian Basin.

* 1982 Oil is discovered in Mills County.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1950.

Oil was discovered in 1921, leading to a population increase in Loving County.

A member of Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Oil Painters of America and the California Art Club, Wray has participated in workshops with Ray Roberts, Carolyn Anderson, Matt Smith, Eric Merrill, Frank Serrano and George Strickland, in addition to his long term study with Jove Wang.

In 1864, Carnegie invested $ 40, 000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Production in Santa Barbara County began in the 1890s with the development of the Summerland Oil Field, which included the world's first offshore oil wells.

The Oil Springs Reservation is an Indian Reservation of the Seneca Nation shared with Cattaraugus County for a total area of only.

* Oil Springs Reservation, Cattaraugus County

* Adams County Interactive Oil Well Map Mississippi Oil Journal

Wetzel County has a long history in the Oil and Gas producing industry.

The South Texas Oil Boom included wells drilled in Zapata County in the early 1920s through the work of Laredo industrialist Oliver Winfield Killam, a Missouri native who once served as an Oklahoma state legislator.

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.

In 1946, Mike Benedum began wildcatting in Upton County and opened up what would become known as the Benedum Oil Field.

Pecos County is home to one of the largest oil fields in the United States, the Yates Oil Field, which is in the extreme eastern part of the county, along the Pecos River.

Upham Oil and Gas Company has operated in Palo Pinto County since its founding in 1956 by the late Chet Upham of Mineral Wells, who was also the chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1979-1983.

* 1946-1991 Oil is discovered in Kent County in 1946.

* 1928 Oil is discovered in Irion County.

Oil was discovered in Hansford County in 1937.

Oil was discovered in the county in 1942, and by 1991, had been taken from Coke County lands.

Other oil boom towns located in Venango County included Franklin, Oil City, and the now defunct Pithole City The principal product of the oil was kerosene.

Perhaps in one of history's ironies, another resident of Venango County about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined by the South Improvement Company scheme of 1871 and the conglomerate which became Standard Oil.

" At what is now known as Oil Creek, Butler County resident William Smith and Edwin Drake first proved that oil could be tapped from underground for consistent supply.

In 1900, Phoenix Oil Company built a pipeline from Osage County to Bartlesville's Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, where there was an oil loading facility.