Petroleum

Ever since petroleum and its products entered the realm of commercial commodities, there has been a ceaseless search throughout the two hemispheres for crude oil, and to-day the...

In view of the great interest which is now being centred in the production of petroleum in the British Isles--thus making this country to a large extent less dependent upon fore...

The remarkably perfect methods by which petroleum and its products are transported by land and sea before they reach the consumer may not at first sight appear to be anything bu...

Inasmuch as the aim of this little volume is to interest other than those who are directly associated with the petroleum industry, I shall endeavour in this chapter to refer to...

There will be no chapter in this little treatise which will be more carefully perused than the present one, for the subject is of direct interest to every reader, whether actual...

So much has been written of late as to the use of petroleum as fuel for the purposes of steam-raising, that the reader is bound to be more or less _au fait_ with the subject. It...

Time was when the engineering aspect of the production of petroleum was practically non-existent. The ancients, and even those of the last century, were content to resort to the...

A perusal of the preceding chapters of this little work will have made it clear to the reader that petroleum and its products play a most important part to-day in the life of na...

No brief survey of the petroleum industry would be complete were reference not made to a few of those remarkable commercial undertakings in various parts of the world whose inte...

The desire that the British Empire should be self-supporting in every possible way has been the predominating idea of our statesmen for many years: it is to be regretted, howeve...

The world’s total production of crude oil for 1917, and for the period of years 1857 to 1917, is given in the following table. The details are given in barrels, which, divided b...

In no other sphere of employment has petroleum made such rapid strides during the past two or three decades as those recorded in connection with its use in internal combustion e...

From times immemorial, petroleum has been utilized as a lighting agent. Fifteen hundred years ago we have records of its use in the Far Eastern countries, and in the seventh cen...

In dealing with the question of petroleum and its origin, the subject can well be defined under two headings: one, the origin of the word “petroleum”; the other, the origin of t...