With the discovery of oil in the later half of the 19th century, even oil stocks entered into the curb market.

However, the area has aroused considerable interest from oil companies in the light of the discovery of rich reserves of high grade crude oil elsewhere in Nigeria.

The discovery of oil and gas deposits along the coast and offshore, combined with easy access to shipping, have made the Gulf Coast the heart of the U. S. petrochemical industry.

Petroleum became a major industry following the oil discovery at Oil Creek Pennsylvania in 1859.

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.

This increased again with the discovery of the Wilmington Oil Field in 1932, and the development of the Port of Los Angeles as a means of shipping crude oil overseas.

This only began to change in the 1970s, partly due to the discovery and development of North Sea oil and gas and partly as Scotland moved towards a more service-based economy.

This only began to change in the 1970s, partly due to the discovery and development of North Sea oil and gas and partly as Scotland moved towards a more service-based economy.

The discovery of the giant Forties oilfield in October 1970 signalled that Scotland was about to become a major oil producing nation, a view confirmed when Shell Expro discovered the giant Brent oilfield in the northern North Sea east of Shetland in 1971.

During the 1970s and ‘ 80s rural poverty did decline, particularly in the Malayan Peninsula, but critics of the government ’ s policy contend that this was mainly due to the growth of overall national prosperity ( due in large part to the discovery of important oil and gas reserves ) and migration of rural people to the cities rather than to state intervention.

The first exports began in 1963 with the discovery of oil helping to transform the Libyan economy, although imposing a resource curse on Libya.

The discovery of substantial deposits of North Sea oil in 1965 and the renewables sector have contributed to a degree of economic stability in recent decades.

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

One of the well known merchants, Hussain Ali Bin Saif Al-Roumi, was known as the leader in pearl trade throughout the region, sustaining the economy for decades before the discovery of oil.

The discovery of oil accelerated the growth of the city's road network.

These rock formations represent the current cutting edge of deep-water oil discovery.

For some the discovery of oil of the Congolese coast was a blessing.

Forestry which led Congolese exports before the discovery of oil, continues to generate 10 % of export earnings, although high transportation costs, high wages, and low productivity have hurt the forestry industry in recent years.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

Over the ten years following the McFaddin discovery, more than 72 million barrels ( 11. 4 GL ) of oil were produced, mostly from the newer areas of the field.

Many Arab nationalist politicians in Kuwait were provided safe haven in Iraq after being repressed by the quasi-rulers of the sheikhdom, the al-Sabah family ( Kuwait was still a British territory at the time ), who favored independence especially after the discovery of oil there in 1938.

However, there was little interest in a more definitive settlement in the so-called " Neutral Zone " until the discovery, in 1938, of oil in the Burgan ( Burqan ) of Kuwait.

It was only after the discovery of these oil deposits off-shore of Khafji that a permanent demarcation of the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia was established, with Khafji formally located within Saudi Arabia.

Evidence suggests a third release in 1938, consisting of toads being used for human pregnancy tests — many species of toad were found to be effective for this task, and were employed for about 20 years after the discovery was announced in 1948.

Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned bachelor's and master's degrees in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938.

In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his " demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ".

In 1938, during a nuclear experiment conducted at Ohio State University, a few radioactive nuclides were produced that certainly were not radioisotopes of neodymium or samarium, but there was a lack of chemical proof that element 61 was produced, and the discovery was not generally recognized.

However, the presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east .< ref > Abdoulaye Camara et Bertrand Duboscq, La préhistoire dans le Sud-Est du Sénégal, Actes du 2 < sup > e </ sup > Colloque de Kédougou, 18 – 22 fév.

As King, he presided over the discovery of petroleum in Saudi Arabia in 1938 and the beginning of large-scale oil exploitation after World War II.

She was launched in 1964 and named in honour of Otto Hahn, the German chemist and Nobel prizewinner, who was credited with the discovery of nuclear fission of uranium in 1938.

In 1933, Saudi Arabia granted SoCal a concession to find oil, which led to the discovery of oil in 1938.

Finally, his third attempt, at 160 MHz, was successful in 1938, confirming Jansky's discovery.

In 1938, Thompson added to ceramic sequence, the discovery of the site of La Milpa.

The army personnel on board, commanded by Hilary Bond and accompanied by an older version of the Time Traveller's friend Filby, take Moses, Nebogipfel, and the Time Traveller to their 1938, where World War I has stretched over twenty-four years due to the discovery of time travel which was influenced by the latter's work.

Denmark's first professor of sociology was a member of the faculty of Aarhus University ( Theodor Geiger, from 1938 – 1952 ), and in 1997 Professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump.

In 1937, while awaiting the presidential elections for January 1938, the existence of a communist plot to overthrow the government was denounced by Vargas: he announced the discovery of a plan, named Cohen Plan ( Plano Cohen ), to take over the government.

The medal has on occasion been awarded to multiple people at a time ; in 1938 it was won by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton " for their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated by artificially produced bombarding particles ", in 1981 by Peter Higgs and Tom Kibble " for their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory ", in 1982 by Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine " for their elucidation of the magnetic properties of the ocean floors which subsequently led to the plate tectonic hypothesis " and in 1988 by Archibald Howie and M. J. Whelan " for their contributions to the theory of electron diffraction and microscopy, and its application to the study of lattice defects in crystals ".

Charles Édouard Guillaume ( 15 February 1861, Fleurier, Switzerland – 13 May 1938, Sèvres, France ) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.

Though those British politicians and civil servants who met with Goerdeler were impressed with his candor and earnestness, it was judged too risky by the Chamberlain government in 1938 to stake all upon the Goerdeler's projected putsch, especially given that the chances for success were uncertain at best, and the discovery of British backing for an unsuccessful putsch was likely to cause the war the Chamberlain government was seeking to avert in 1938.

In 1937 and 1938 Streuvels garnered the majority of the Nobel Committee votes for his receiving the literature Nobel Prize, but each time the Academy awarded the prize to someone else: in 1937 he had to give way to Roger Martin du Gard and in 1938 to a new discovery, Pearl Buck.

The first season also touches upon a government conspiracy as demonstrated in the discovery of a whitewash of the alien reconnaissance mission that took place in Grover's Mill in 1938 that was forgotten because of the infamous radio broadcast made by Orson Welles.

The discovery of gold in Yellowknife in 1938 also represented an economic boost to Fort Smith as many prospectors came passing through.

Only in 1938, nine years after the discovery, did IPC begin to export oil in significant quantities.

A biography, by Amy Shapiro, includes letters, stories and memoirs gathered across twenty years of discovery, of people who recounted the vital role that Dr. Oskar Adler played in Vienna's pre-Nazi cultural life before 1938 and while in exile.