Crude Oil

The purpose of upgrading is to transform bitumen into synthetic crude oil (SCO) which can be refined and marketed as consumer products such as diesel and gasoline.

marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry

The oil companies kept the price of crude oil low in order to minimize their payments

the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. Four million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well

the only national trade association representing all facets of the natural gas and oil industry.

has moved 18 billion barrels of oil since startup in 1977

colloquially referred to as oil burners. Oil-burning steam engines first appeared in the latter half of the 19th century, but their use

Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil.

1891) was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in

10, 1956) was an American industrialist, and the founder of Sinclair Oil. He was implicated in the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal, and served six

who was active in Republican Party politics. A co-founder of Gulf Oil, he was a member of the prominent Mellon family of Pittsburgh,

10, 1856, September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los

Clark Teagle (May 1, 1878, January 9, 1962) was president of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from 1917 to 1937 and was chairman of the board from 1937 to 1942. He

1930, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American pioneer in the petroleum industry in Pennsylvania and elsewhere and a longtime Democratic politician in

mining engineer and inventor known for his work with petroleum and sulfur.

Pew (July 20, 1848, October 12, 1912) was the founder of Sun Oil Company (now Sunoco) and a prominent philanthropist.

(December 31, 1860, March 11, 1937) was a U.S. oil industrialist. Although he was a native of Pennsylvania, his lifetime business

9, 1886, December 14, 1956), was a prominent oil company executive, petroleum exploration geophysicist and philanthropist in Dallas. He

who developed the widely used Burton process of thermal cracking for crude oil. Burton was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1886, he received a Bachelor

politician and oilman who at the age of seventy drilled the discovery well of the East Texas Oil Field of the 1930s. Newspaper articles referred to Joiner as the Daddy of

10 June] 1859, Stockholm, 31 May 1932) was a Swedish oil baron, the eldest son of Ludvig Nobel and his first wife, Mina Ahlsell,

(3 November 1888-1 April 1970) was a Scottish oilman. Fraser served from 1941 to 1954 as the fourth and final chairman of

engineer, and wildcatter. Credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, he twice declared bankruptcy, but came back each time to regain

Wallace Everette Pratt (1885-1981) was a pioneer American petroleum geologist. When he started his position at Standard Oil in 1937, the company

(February 17, 1889, November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon and the founding patriarch of the Hunt business dynasty. Most likely

(December 25, 1907, December 26, 1988) was an American oil tycoon. The media often referred to him as "Diamond Glenn" and "The King of

was involved in the petroleum industry having struck oil near Texas in 1928. He was a supporter of multiple educational institutions in and

1895, June 20, 1969) was a noted Texas-based oil magnate and political operative. Among his companies was the Southern Union

businessman and one of the United States' earliest oil refiners. His small oil company was bought out by John D. Rockefeller's

who was president and later chairman of Standard Oil of New York, a collector of Shakespeareana, and co-founder of the Folger

businessman and politician from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th governor of

as the chairman and chief executive officer of French oil corporation Total.

War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian petroleum agency Agip, a state enterprise established by Fascist Italy. Instead, Mattei

(born 16 May 1945) is an Italian billionaire petroleum businessman, the former owner of Inter Milan and chairman of the Saras Group,

car collector. He is the chairman of Perenco, an oil and gas company with operations in 14 countries, which was founded by his father. In

(CEO) of Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield services company, effective 1 August 2019.

lavoro (29 July 1926-17 August 2008) was an Italian oil tycoon. He was born in Rome, where he lived throughout his entire life,

Pierre Wack (1922-1997) was a French oil executive who was the first to develop the use of scenario planning in the

(10 April 1964-10 July 2017) was an Italian oil and gas expert, who was a top manager at Eni from 1994 to 2011. At the time of his

was a French industrialist, director of the French Petroleum Company (CFP), the forerunner of the French petroleum conglomerate Total. His

November 1896-12 April 1976) was a New Zealand oil company executive. Walkley was a founder of Australian oil company Ampol and was

born 8 March 1951) is a Greek business shipping and oil tycoon, and one of the country's leading businessmen. Melissanidis is in the

Abdulhadi H. Taher (1930-2013) was a Saudi Arabian oil executive and author. He was the Director General of the Saudi Arabian Ministry

سداد إبراهيم آل حسيني) is a leading Saudi oil and gas industry expert. He is most widely known for his achievements during his tenure at

businessman and ice hockey executive. His petroleum industry career as executive vice president of Neste involved him in Finland's

(مصطفى صنع الله) served as the chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Libya's national oil company, between May 2014 and July 2022.

1885, March 25, 1934) was a Canadian-American oil company promoter and con man operating in Los Angeles, California, United States in

Immanuel Mulunga was the managing director of the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR). He was suspended from this job on April 4, 2023, pending

Kyatuk, Varanda, Artsakh, 1923, Tiflis) was an Armenian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist, and a founder and

Oil Field in the 1970s; this field is the largest oil field in the North Sea.

of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and chairman of Masdar. Al Jaber is the UAE's special envoy

September 28, 1923) was a U.S. businessman and co-founder of Union Oil Company of California. Stewart was also a significant Christian philanthropist and

23 February 1925) was a British geologist and oil industry executive who played a significant role in the development of Iran's oil

31 May 1941), was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.

March 7, 1981) was a Japanese businessman and founder of the petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan. He graduated from Kobe University (then Kobe Koto

Catalytic reforming is a chemical process used to convert naphthas from crude oil into liquid products called reformates

Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a natural resource that appears as a yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting primarily of hydrocarbons.

Pearson & Son from a Yorkshire contractor into an international builder and created the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company, a leading early 20th century oil producer.

Together, and with capital from the British Government, they founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which made the Empire largely independent of other powers in the supply of petroleum.

He is credited with creating the Russian oil industry.

Anderson turned ARCO into the United States' sixth-largest oil company by the time he left in 1986 due to mandatory retirement.

He helped innovate catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks, for which he received the Perkin Medal among others.

He made several important contributions to geology, geophysics, and petroleum geology, most notably the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory (a basic component of peak oil), with important political ramifications.

The gas, distilled from naphtha or other petroleum products, was widely used in railway transport and marine navigation applications from its invention in 1851 until the 1930s.