gulf oil corp.
1Gulf Oil Corp. — Major U.S. petroleum company. Gulf Oil began with an oil gusher near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 and was incorporated in 1907. The oil well was developed by the Pittsburgh Mellon family (see Andrew W. Mellon). Gulf became the first oil company to… …
2Gulf Oil Corp. — Gran empresa petrolera estadounidense. Gulf Oil inició sus operaciones en 1901 con un pozo surtidor de petróleo cerca de Beaumont, Texas, y en 1907 se constituyó como sociedad anónima. El pozo petrolero fue explotado por la familia Mellon de… …
3Corp — abbrev. 1. Corporal 2. Corporation: also corp: or Brit. corpn * * * (as used in expressions) National Railroad Passenger Corp. British Broadcasting Corp. Consolidated Rail Corp. American Motors Corp …
4Corp — (as used in expressions) American Motors Corp. National Railroad Passenger Corp. AT&T Corp. British Broadcasting Corp. BellSouth Corp. Bethlehem Steel Corp. CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Chase Manhattan Corp. Chemical Banking Corp. Chrysler… …
5gulf — gulflike, adj. gulfy, adj. /gulf/, n. 1. a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land. 2. a deep hollow; chasm or abyss. 3. any wide separation, as in position, status, or education. 4. something that engulfs or swallows up. v.t. 5. to… …
6oil — oilless, adj. oillessness, n. oillike, adj. /oyl/, n. 1. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming …
7oíl — (Del fr. ant. o, partícula afirmativa, + il , pron. pers.) ► adverbio LINGÜÍSTICA Voz con la que se distingue al conjunto de dialectos románicos hablados en el norte de Francia y áreas de influencia, muy afines al francés. * * * oíl (del fr.… …
8Oil-for-Food Programme — The Oil for Food Programme (OFF), established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986)[1] was established with the stated intent to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and… …
9Oil sands — The Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada, are a very large source of bitumen, which can be upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. The… …
10Oil megaprojects (2008) — This page summarizes projects that brought more than 20,000 barrels per day (3,200 m3/d) of new liquid fuel capacity to market with the first production of fuel beginning in 2008. This is part of the Wikipedia summary of Oil Megaprojects.… …
