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In 1993,in the context of China's opening-up,reforms,and economic globalization,Chinese oil companies,such as China National Petroleum Corporation(CNPC),started their international businesses under the guidance of the government's key decision to fully utilize its resources both at home and abroad....
This reprint of the briefer version of a book that was originally serialized by McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904 recounts the history of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, the first major industrial monopoly in the US. The story, which became a model for investigative journalists...
Oil-Dri Corporation of America was ranked #7 out of the top 100 companies. The rankings were based on earnings growth, sales growth, return on equity, and total stock return for the trailing twelve months and over the last five years. 2023 The Chicago Tribune has named Oil-Dri Corporation...
1880’s – Pennsylvania is producing 77% of the global oil supply. Russia would eclipse as the dominant producer by the 1900s. 1892 – Edward L. Doheny drills the first oil well in Los Angeles. Within five years there would be 2500 oil wells and two hundred oil companies in the area....
In 1993, COFCO East Ocean Oils & Grains Industries (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd. was established and in 1997 it was put into operation and became one of the world’s largest integrated grain and oil processing base. 1993 COFCO acquired two Hong Kong listed companies: COFCO International Limited an...
During World War I, Shell became the main fuel supplier of the British army and also offered all of its ships to the British Admiralty, including the Murex. The inter-war years were a time of rapid expansion for oil companies as the use of motor cars and demand for petrol increased. ...
for oil companies as the use of motor cars and demand for petrol increased. Shell fuelled the first trans-Atlantic flight made by Alcock and Brown in 1919, developed new and improved drilling techniques and, in 1929, founded Shell Chemicals to advance the refinement of chemicals from oil. ...
“In the late 1930s, two U.S. oil companies in partnership, Chevron and Texaco, haddiscoveredenormous volumes of oil in the eastern part of the kingdom,” Montgomery says. “Subsequent geologic analyses showed that the entire center of gravity in world oil production and supply would soon sh...
In the early days of the oil industry, many competing oil companies were eager to find a source and drilled indiscriminately, pumping waste products into rivers or straight out on the ground rather than troubling with proper disposal. They cut costs by using shoddy pipelines that were prone to ...