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  • Thumbnail for Astral Oil Works
    Astral Oil Works was an American oil company specializing in illuminating oil, and based in Brooklyn, New York. Astral Oil was a high-quality kerosene...
    19 KB (2,048 words) - 11:33, 7 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Glen Davis Shale Oil Works
    The Glen Davis Shale Oil Works was a shale oil extraction plant, in the Capertee Valley, at Glen Davis, New South Wales, Australia, which operated from...
    36 KB (3,984 words) - 19:41, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grangemouth Refinery
    availability of skilled labour in shale oil refining: the first oil works in the world, 'Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited', had opened in...
    20 KB (2,267 words) - 23:40, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cottonseed oil
    Cottonseed oil is cooking oil from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum, that are grown for...
    22 KB (3,280 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil!
    bribe the government to acquire the land in Teapot Dome to drill oil. He also works to crush the unions that oppose him by bribing the authorities to...
    10 KB (1,214 words) - 01:34, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil City Iron Works, Inc.
    Oil City Iron Works, Inc. is an iron foundry in Texas. The modern Oil City Iron Works plant grew from a small machine shop and foundry started in Corsicana...
    4 KB (490 words) - 17:24, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oil painting
    Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common...
    29 KB (3,644 words) - 08:17, 9 October 2024
  • Ayurvedic medicine. Practitioners of oil pulling claim it is capable of improving oral health. Its promoters claim it works by pulling out toxins, but there...
    7 KB (623 words) - 03:29, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the petroleum industry
    Glasgow; their works at Bathgate were completed in 1851 and became the first truly commercial oil-works and oil refinery in the world, using oil extracted...
    34 KB (4,275 words) - 11:05, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of oil in California through 1930
    listings in Los Angeles County. In 1875, the Star Oil Works, later reorganized as the California Star Oil Works Company, hired Charles Alexander Mentry (1846-1900)...
    16 KB (1,993 words) - 01:40, 5 October 2024
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is primarily recovered by oil drilling. Drilling...
    131 KB (14,552 words) - 23:41, 12 October 2024
  • Kerosene (redirect from Stove oil)
    products in 1850, and built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and...
    56 KB (6,417 words) - 15:14, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chevron Corporation
    predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California...
    103 KB (9,775 words) - 22:48, 10 October 2024
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    American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. The brand was formerly owned and operated by an oil and gas corporation of the same name (Mobil Oil Corporation)...
    36 KB (3,516 words) - 22:52, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pioneer Oil Refinery
    city of Santa Clarita. Pioneer Oil Refinery was built by California Star Oil Works, which became part of Standard Oil of California and then part of Chevron...
    4 KB (352 words) - 14:58, 13 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Palm oil
    Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty...
    96 KB (10,294 words) - 01:11, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anglo-Persian Oil Company
    Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; Persian: شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed...
    49 KB (6,227 words) - 18:03, 25 August 2024
  • The Port Gibson Oil Works Mill Building is a historic industrial building for production of cottonseed oil located in Port Gibson, Mississippi, United...
    3 KB (152 words) - 21:30, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Charles Pratt
    Charles Pratt (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
    petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton...
    21 KB (2,270 words) - 21:28, 11 September 2024
  • oil and petroleum industry in Pakistan. Pakistan portal Energy portal Petroleum Institute of Pakistan Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Oil...
    1 KB (94 words) - 13:29, 2 October 2024
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