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It is estimated that nearly four billion barrels of oil remain in the Illinois Basin, writes Seth Whitehead of the Illinois ...

OIL CITY, La. - In the early 1980s, it seemed like nothing could stop the booming oil industry in Northwest Louisiana. Crude ...

Oil industry opposition to a planned OSHA rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous ...

Just as we can’t imagine Britain’s rise to dominance in the capitalist system without coal, it is impossible to imagine the ...

For the perfect mix of history and outdoor adventure, this small Pennsylvania town has it all, including vintage railroad ...

The Standard Oil decision, he said ... to controvert included a conspiracy alleged to have had its conception in 1870; a growth into gigantic proportions, fed by illegal rebate, fostered by ...

BP AMERICA, formerly the Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), which was the original Standard Oil Co. founded by JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER in 1870 along with his brother, William, HENRY M. FLAGLER , SAMUEL ANDREWS, and ...

But the results in improving competition has been mixed. Standard Oil, an energy giant founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1870, was the defining case of the progressive, trustbusting era of the ...

Standard Oil tried to commercialize synthetic oil in 1929, but it didn't stick due to lack of demand and, well, we had that Depression going on at the time. Scientists from all over the world kept ...

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were ... Rockefeller became the exemplar of the era when his Standard Oil empire made him the world’s first billionaire.

He rose from modest beginnings to become the founder of Standard Oil in 1870 and ruthlessly set about destroying his competitors to create a monopoly of the oil industry. He branched out to ...