Petroleum, History of Exploration
Exploration for hydrocarbons (oil, gas, and condensate) is commonly acknowledged to have begun with the discovery at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, by "Colonel...
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The importance of oil to the modern world is unique in character and incredibly far-reaching in scope. It is a singularly autonomous variable in the world economy, just as, if not more potent and infl...
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The chairman of a Chinese private oil company association has been detained for suspected economic crimes, a company controlled by the tycoon said Tuesday.Gong Jialong, chairman of the Great United...
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<b>MewithoutYou: Philadelphia-based band gives the finger to the petroleum industry by filing up on veggie oil</b>As a gas prices skyrocket, so does the cost of a band’s cross-cou...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH START OF SALES)
Nippon Oil Corp. and nine other major Japanese oil distributors
started selling bio-gasoline at service stations around the Kanto
region on Friday in an e...
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(EDS: TO BE LED AROUND 9 A.M.)
Nippon Oil Corp. and nine other major Japanese oil distributors
will start selling bio-gasoline at service stations around the Kanto
region on Friday in an eff...
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A look at Nigeria, which holds presidential elections Saturday:___GEOGRAPHY: Twice the size of California, with an area of nearly 360,000 square miles. It is set on the Gulf of Guinea on the West A...
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Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said Saturday they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds pa...
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Costa Rica and China announced Friday they have agreed to jointly explore for oil and natural gas in the Central American country.It wasn't clear if the proposed exploration would be on land or off...
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The Nasdaq bounced off its 200-day moving average and turned a 0.8% loss into a 1.4% gain. Volume rose from Friday's level. A follow-through day on the Dow index confirmed a new uptrend for the ent...
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(EDS: SHIPMENT EXPECTED AROUND 8:30 A.M.)
Japan's first shipment of bio-gasoline, or gasoline blended with
plant-derived fuel, will leave a Nippon Oil Corp. refinery in
Yokohama on Thursday ...
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(EDS: CLARIFYING HEADLINE, 1ST-3RD GRAFS. ADDING COMMENT IN 4TH GRAF)
Major Japanese oil distributors launched a program for promoting
bio-gasoline Thursday as the first shipment of the gasol...
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Petroleum, History of Exploration
The World Importance of Oil
China detains chairman of oil company
