Quotes About Petroleum

Russia is a bankrupt country. It just lives on oil revenues.

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

As early as 1910, Ludwig Landsberg had suggested that I should examine the problem of splitting heavy oils and oil residues into benzines.

Reagan se las ingenió para subastar los recursos naturales, una liquidación que posibilitó a las grandes compañías petroleras exportar la enorme abundancia de crudo del país a una fracción de su valor.

The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

I use the petroleum jelly on my lips because they get very dry and it's truly the only thing that works.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

The steady seepage into Oil Creek argued for a substantial underground reservoir. To find that reservoir and tap it would require investment. Silliman, the two men hoped, would certify the value of the petroleum to potential investors.

Silliman called fractional distillation "tedious," and, in fact, it took him more than three weeks to complete the experiment. But he identified seven different component oils mixed together in the crude petroleum, ranging in color, viscosity, and odor

Distilling these mixtures in turn came to be called "cracking" them—breaking them open, as it were.

Petroleum was hard to sell because it was costly to transport by wagon and smelled terrible in its raw state. Refining it required moving it from Oil Creek to one of the many refineries, most of them small, that sprang up between Titusville and Pittsburgh. But swampy or frozen dirt trails slick with spilled oil played hell with caravans of up to one hundred wagons loaded with thousands of gallons of barreled oil.

Wet gas—gas that flowed mixed with petroleum—was routinely vented into the atmosphere or flared off. Gas was often left to vent into the air, sometimes for years, when drillers abandoned dry holes. A 1935 US Federal Trade Commission report to Congress estimated that 20 percent more gas was wasted nationwide between 1919 and 1930 than was consumed:

The closest modern equivalents to the Company, however, are the giant state-owned companies of China, such as the Sinopec Group, the petroleum behemoth. As Beijing extends its influence across East Asia and works to secure supplies of oil and other raw materials from Africa to Latin America, its large state firms are and will continue to be critical vehicles of this expansion.

So one of the first things I did when I became a minister was to establish a national oil company and a petroleum university.

Interestingly enough, immediately after Yamani was dismissed from his ministry, the university had its name changed. For whatever reason, today it is officially known as King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari.

Today, despite the jet and information age, 90 percent of global commerce and two thirds of all petroleum supplies travel by sea.