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2008 Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time
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 Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 1990 Exxon Valdez Captain 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, born in Dallas, Texas, U.S. oil millionaire, Representative-R-California, 1992 - 1994 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 1934 Gordon Getty, born in San Francisco, California, fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, sold Getty Oil to Texaco, became classical music composer, contributes to the San Francisco Opera 1932 J. P. Getty, US/British oil magnate/billionaire, Getty Oil 1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada 1932 Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1927 U.S. 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 1889 H. L. Hunt, American Businessman, Texas oil multi-millionaire 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 and founder of Standard Oil 1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive U.S. oil well |
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