2004 "Paul ""Red"" Adair", Oil well fire expert, Hellfighters, dies at 88
2000 Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60
1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
1995 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1994 Woodrow "Woody" Strode, U.S. rugby player/black cowboy actor (Oil), dies
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1993 U.N. authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1990 Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1988 North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
1987 U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill
1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24 percent
1979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage
1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1976 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
1976 J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
1976 Jean Paul Getty, U.S. oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83
1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1976 Venezuela nationalizes oil fields
1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1974 Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. and Netherlands begins
1973 Arabs decrease oil production
1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1969 Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests
1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1968 London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona
1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil
1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1962 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1960 Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R.
1960 Oil pipeline from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
1959 [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd, baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
1957 Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1953 President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
1951 Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1947 Michael Huffington, U.S. oil millionaire, Rep-R-Calif, 1992-94
1945 U.S. wartime rationing of gasoline and fuel oil ends
1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1941 Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1939 Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72
1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
1938 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies
1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1932 J. P. Getty, US/British oil magnate/billionaire, Getty Oil
1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1927 US and Mexico battle over oil interests
1925 Marvin Davis, Newark, New Jersey, CEO, Davis Oil Company
1923 Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1922 Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
1918 Oil refinery on Curacao opens
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1915 Nora Dunfee, actress, Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil
1915 Red Adair, oilman, fought oil fires in Kuwait
1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1914 Alastair Down, CEO, Burmah Oil
1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1907 Paul Mellon, U.S., oil magnate/president, Washington National Gallery of Art
1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1906 John D. Rockefeller, billionaire philanthropist, oil
1904 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1902 Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms
1901 Oil discovered in Texas
1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
1892 J Paul Getty, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, oil magnate, Getty Oil
1892 Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1866 Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate, Royal Oil, Shell
1865 1st U.S. underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1860 Hugo Loudon, CEO, Royal Dutch Oil [Shell]
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker, Standard Oil was very unhappy
1854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in U.S., incorporated in New York City
1853 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine and oil on his clothing and sees cleaning effect
1839 John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist/founder, Standard Oil
1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive U.S. oil well
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