Glossary - Oil History
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- 6000 B.C
asirians and babilonians used oil to glue bricks and stones; egyptians to treat animal skins. Tribes in Mexico used it for painting.
- 4000 B.C.
- oil is used in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia/Iran and Judea. Bitumen is used for roads paving, house lightning,
- 1859
- the american Edwin Drake drills the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
- 1866
- Arco, the oldest company of the current BP, is founded in Philadephia under the name of Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company.
- 1870
- John Rockefeller funds the Standard Oil Company.
- 1873
- oil mining starts in Baku, Russia.
- 1885
- the company Royal Dutch finds oil in Sumatra.
- 1905
- oil fields in Baku, Russia, are burned during civil unrest.
- 1908
- Oil in Iran/Persia is discovered.
- 1909
- the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the future BP, is created, after the oil discovery of Masjid-i-Suleiman, southeast of Iran/Persia.
- 1907
- Fussion between the companies Royal Dutch and Shell.
- 1911
- the Supreme Court of the United States orders the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company.
- 1918
- Otoman empire is defeated.
- 1938
- In Mexico, president Lazaro Cardenas expropriates the 17 oil companies operating in the country.
- Oil is found in Kwait and Saudi Arabia.
- 1954
- in Brazil, the state owned company Petrobras is created.
- 1956
- Shell drill its first well in Oloibiri, Nigeria.
- Nationalization of the Suez Canal by Pressident Nasser of Egypt.
- 1990
- in August, toops of Irak invaded Kuwait.
- 1991
- January 17, First Gulf War starts.
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- Ford T
- In 1922, Ford start sales of Ford T model in United States. At that time, there were 18 million of cards. By 1938, 40 million; in 1956, 100 million, and 170 by 1964.
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- Spindletop
- gusher that launched the Texas oil-boom on January 10th, 1901. It began producing 100,000 barrels per day.
