Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

The settlement compensated the Natives for the collaborative use of their lands and opened the way for all Alaskans to profit from oil, one of the state's largest natural resources.

The largest sources of inorganic carbon are limestones, dolomites and carbon dioxide, but significant quantities occur in organic deposits of coal, peat, oil and methane clathrates.

Also known as slow-speed, or traditionally oil engines, the largest diesel engines are primarily used to power ships, although there are a few land-based power generation units as well.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The Valdez spill was the largest ever in U. S. waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume released.

The region also produces the largest amount of olives, and creates superb olive oil.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

One of the positive results of the campaign was GAR ( Golden Agri-Resources ), the world's second largest palm oil production company, deciding to commit itself to forest conservation.

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the US was the largest oil producing country in the world ; it is now the 3rd largest.

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

U. S. investors dominated the oil and gas sector and undertook some of Indonesia's largest mining projects.

In 2004 Iraq had eight oil refineries, the largest of which were at Baiji, Basra, and Daura.

One of the single largest applications for lubricants, in the form of motor oil, is protecting the internal combustion engines in motor vehicles and powered equipment.

* Mars ( oil platform ), the largest oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico

* 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U. S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

Out of all these categories, oil and gas extraction remains one of the largest in terms of its global economic importance.

Nigeria supplies 20 % of India's crude oil needs and is India's largest trading partner in Africa.

The algebraic closure of a field K can be thought of as the largest algebraic extension of K.

The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists identify themselves as condensed matter physicists, and The Division of Condensed Matter Physics ( DCMP ) is the largest division of the American Physical Society.

There, Ambrosio was the first company in the field in 1905, and remained the largest in the country through this period.

A research library is most often an academic or national library, but a large special library may have a research library within its special field and a very few of the largest public libraries also serve as research libraries.

In most cases, the largest meteorites in a shower are found farthest down-range in the strewn field.

On July 14, 1999, the three men lost their lives when the Lampson " Big Blue " crane, one of the largest in the world, collapsed while trying to lift a 400 ton right field roof panel.

However in the past far larger numbers were allowed-the largest field ever raced was a staggering 39 runners in 1890.

The world's largest gas field is Qatar's offshore North Field, estimated to have 25 trillion cubic meters ( 9. 0

Under the direction of anthropologist Margaret Mead, the Parapsychological Association took a large step in advancing the field of parapsychology in 1969 when it became affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), the largest general scientific society in the world.

The largest of these beds is Khaybar, north of Medina ; another is Al Harrah, part of the large volcanic field Harrat Ash Shamah.

A false start penalty against San Francisco prevented them from attempting to score a touchdown, but Wersching kicked a 26-yard field goal, increasing the 49ers ' lead, 20 – 0, which was the largest halftime lead in Super Bowl history to that date.

Muhammad gathered an army of 313 men, the largest army the Muslims had put in the field yet.

The largest drawback to rocket flights is their very short duration ( just a few minutes above the atmosphere before the rocket falls back to Earth ) and their limited field of view.

The West Building also has of meeting space, including 61 meeting rooms, as well as a ballroom, the size of a football field and one of the largest ballrooms in the world.

One of the largest volume uses for ICP-MS is in the medical and forensic field, specifically, toxicology.

Rouse excitedly proclaimed that this undertaking “ will be the largest, and potentially most important development in the history of Baltimore .” Rouse hoped that he could bring to the residential field “ some of the fresh thinking, good taste and high standards which we believe have marked our shopping center developments .”

) If formulated in von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, the surreal numbers are the largest possible ordered field ; all other ordered fields, such as the rationals, the reals, the rational functions, the Levi-Civita field, the superreal numbers, and the hyperreal numbers, are subfields of the surreals ; it has also been shown that the maximal class hyperreal field is isomorphic to the maximal class surreal field.

The world's largest and most valuable gem opal " Olympic Australis " was found in at the " Eight Mile " opal field in Coober Pedy.

Towards the middle of the 20th century, musicology ( and its largest subfield of historical musicology ) expanded significantly as a field of study.

The largest advantage of wind power is that larger wind turbines have a lower per-watt cost than solar cells, provided there is wind.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

The four largest that empty directly into the Columbia ( measured either by discharge or by size of watershed ) are the Snake River ( mostly in Idaho ), the Willamette River ( in northwest Oregon ), the Kootenay River ( mostly in British Columbia ), and the Pend Oreille River ( mostly in northern Washington and Idaho, also known as the lower part of the Clark Fork ).

The lower lip is larger, with 3-lobes, and the middle lobe is the largest.

As of Feb 17, 2012, M41 is the largest Mersenne prime for which it is known that there is no other unknown Mersenne prime below, with a lower exponent, since all Mersenne numbers with prime exponent below 24, 212, 801 have been checked twice.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

Although some believe that the word ' louvre ' may refer to the structure's status as the largest in late 12th century Paris ( from the French L ' Œuvre, masterpiece ) – or to its location in a forest ( from the French rouvre, oak ) – one finds in the authoritative Larousse that it derives from an association with wolf hunting den ( via Latin: lupus, lower Empire: lupara ).

In March 2012, 6 of Thailand's largest garment manufacturers announced that they would move production to Burma, principally to the Yangon area, citing lower labor costs.

The fusion of two nuclei with lower masses than iron ( which, along with nickel, has the largest binding energy per nucleon ) generally releases energy, while the fusion of nuclei heavier than iron absorbs energy.

The shipyard is a major employer ( largest industrial employer in the state of Virginia ) not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina.

The separatist New Flemish Alliance ( N-VA ), the largest party in Flanders and the country as a whole, controls 27 of 150 seats in the lower chamber.

It is the largest national park in the lower 48 states and has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve.

One of the proportionally largest historical famines was the Bengal Famine of 1770 in the lower Gangetic plain of East India Company ruled North East India.

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

However by the early 1960s GE was the largest user of IBM mainframes, and producing their own machines seemed like an excellent way to lower the costs of their computing department.

Intuitively, a good separation is achieved by the hyperplane that has the largest distance to the nearest training data point of any class ( so-called functional margin ), since in general the larger the margin the lower the generalization error of the classifier.

Much larger forms are found in the later rocks of the upper part of the Jurassic and the lower part of the Cretaceous, such as Titanites from the Portland Stone of Jurassic of southern England, which is often 53 centimetres ( 2 feet ) in diameter, and Parapuzosia seppenradensis of the Cretaceous period of Germany, which is one of the largest known ammonites, sometimes reaching 2 metres ( 6. 5 feet ) in diameter.

Minnesota is home to the largest population of timberwolves in the lower 48 states.

In 2005, it moved 2, 300 of its employees back to lower Manhattan, at that time the largest such move.

The " Grand Salle " ( Great Hall ) was one of the largest in Europe, and its lower story, known as " La salle des gens d ' armes " survives: 64 m long, 27. 5 m wide and 8. 5 m high.

This gave CompuServe the largest selection of local dialup phone connections in the world, in an era when network usage charges were expensive, but still lower than long distance charges.

Atchafalaya Swamp at the lower end of the Mississippi River is the largest swamp in the United States.