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31Yount-Lee Oil Company — The Yount Lee Oil Company, founded in 1914, was the successor to the Yount Rothwell Oil Company which had been formed earlier by Miles Franklin Yount and Talbot Frederick Rothwell. Yount headed up the new enterprise and counted among his partners …
32Deepwater Horizon oil spill — 2010 oil spill and BP oil spill redirect here. For other oil spills in 2010, see 2010 oil spill (disambiguation). For the 2006 oil spill involving BP, see Prudhoe Bay oil spill. For the drilling rig and explosion, see Deepwater Horizon… …
33Orcutt Oil Field — Location of the Orcutt Oil Field in southern and central California. Other oil fields are shown in dark gray. The Orcutt Oil Field is a large oil field in the Solomon Hills south of Orcutt, in Santa Barbara County, California. Discovered in 1901… …
34Long boom — The long boom refers to two distinct periods of economic growth the sustained global period of economic growth following the Second World War and the period in the 1990s of US economic growth.Postwar Boom: 1947 1973The term the long boom is used… …
35Post-World War II baby boom — As is often the case, after a major war, the end of World War II brought a baby boom to many countries, notably those in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australasia. There is some disagreement as to the precise beginning and ending dates of the… …
36Peak oil — A logistic distribution shaped production curve, as originally suggested by M. King Hubbert in 1956 …
37Exxon Valdez oil spill — The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. It is considered one of the most devastating man made environmental disasters ever to occur at sea. As significant as the Exxon Valdez spill was, it ranks… …
38Athabasca Oil Sands — The Athabasca Oil Sands (also known as the Athabasca Tar Sands) are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada. These oil sands consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi solid form of… …
391980s oil glut — The 1980s oil glut was a surplus of crude oil caused by falling demand following the 1973 and 1979 energy crises. The world price of oil, which had peaked in 1979 at over US$35 per barrel, collapsed in 1986 from $27 to below $10. [cite news title …
40South Cuyama Oil Field — The South Cuyama Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in the Cuyama Valley and the adjacent northern foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains in northeastern Santa Barbara County, California. Discovered in 1949, and with a cumulative production… …
