Crude Oil

Founded Astral Oil Works, later merged into Standard Oil as a leading refiner.

Early conventional oil gushers are the textbook high-EROI case, commonly cited near a hundred to one.

Founded Phillips Petroleum Company, 1917.

Founded the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, organizing the drilling that launched the American oil industry.

Founded Sinclair Oil Corporation, 1916.

Co-founded Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller.

Senior Standard Oil executive who built the company pipeline and refining operations.

Built Getty Oil into one of the largest independent oil companies in the world.

Founded Standard Oil, the dominant force in American oil refining.

Co-founded the Branobel oil company, industrializing Russian oil production at Baku.

Founded the Shell Transport and Trading Company, pioneering bulk oil tanker shipping.

About 10% of US propane supply is produced during crude oil refining as lighter hydrocarbons separate out in early distillation, alongside the roughly 90% from natural gas processing (US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center).

Co-founded the Branobel oil company, developing the Baku oil fields.

The diesel engine bound heavy transport to petroleum fuels for over a century.

Pioneered the thermal cracking process for refining crude oil and engineered early oil pipelines in Russia.

Secured the first oil concession in the Middle East and founded the Anglo Persian Oil Company, forerunner of BP.

Founded Gulf Oil Corporation.

Pipeline construction project to carry crude oil from Uganda to the Tanzanian coast.

Crude oil refining complex, Gujarat, India, the largest single-location oil refinery complex in the world by capacity.

Proposed pipeline project to carry crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to the United States; cancelled in 2021.

Crude oil refining and export terminal complex, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

1970s pipeline construction project carrying crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska, United States.