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the
oil and gas exploration
company
WAPET
struck
Australia
's first flowing oil in 1953, and
Western Australia
's first commercial
natural gas
field in 1964?
numerous specimens of
dinosaurs
have been excavated from the
Dashanpu Formation
, first discovered by a
natural gas
company that found the formation's first dinosaur,
Gasosaurus
?
the
Texas
industrialist
Jack Crichton
was involved in the mining of
gold
,
silver
,
nickel
,
copper
, and
zinc
as well as the production of
oil
and
natural gas
?
the
Elk Hills Oil Field
in
San Joaquin Valley
is the largest
natural gas
-producing
oil field
in
California
, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
the supply of
natural gas
and
electricity
in
New Orleans
,
Louisiana
ceased as a result of the
General Strike of 1892
, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
modern experts estimate that around 90% of the
natural gas
discovered in the
Indiana Gas Boom
was wasted in flambeau displays?
during the
Great Depression
,
attorney
George C. Butte
devised regulations for the
conservation
of
Texas
petroleum
and
natural gas
?
oil
and
natural gas
extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in
Hay-Zama Lakes
, an inland
wetland
in
Alberta
,
Canada
, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of
Wood Bison
?
New Mexico
philanthropist
Addie Peed Swearingen
was a
beautician
for 28 years in
Santa Fe
before she and her husband made a fortune in
petroleum
and
natural gas
leases?
Elwood Haynes
invented
stellite
, built one of the first
gasoline driven
automobiles
, and made advances in
natural gas
technology that later resulted in
refrigeration
?
a
separatist group
refuses to allow the exploitation of
crude oil
and
natural gas
reserves in the
Ogaden Basin
,
Ethiopia
?
before the
2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute
,
Gazprom
sold
natural gas
to
Belarus
at
Russian
domestic prices?
natural gas
in the
Marcellus Formation
could increase
United States
energy reserves by one
trillion
U.S. dollars
?
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Petroleum
recovery
of the
oil
in
Spraberry Trend
, an
oil field
ranked third in the
U.S.
by total proven
reserves
, is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
New Mexico
philanthropist
Addie Peed Swearingen
was a
beautician
for 28 years in
Santa Fe
before she and her husband made a fortune in
petroleum
and
natural gas
leases?
oil
and
natural gas
extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in
Hay-Zama Lakes
, an inland
wetland
in
Alberta
,
Canada
, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of
Wood Bison
?
Saudi Arabia
promised to supply 50,000
barrels
of free
oil
per day to
help Pakistan
if
economic sanctions
were imposed after its
1998 nuclear tests
?
Texas
oil tycoon
Glenn McCarthy
gained the
nickname
"King of the
wildcatters
" after striking
oil
thirty-eight times in ten years?
Ernest O. Thompson
, a
Texas
businessman
,
politician
, and
petroleum
expert, received a
battlefield promotion
during
World War I
for developing improved
machine gun
tactics
?
over-illumination
, the use of unnecessarily intense light, not only wastes 1.5 billion
barrels
of
oil
per year, but is also linked to increased incidence of
headache
,
fatigue
,
stress
,
coronary artery disease
and
erectile dysfunction
?
China has helped Nigeria
launch the
NigComSat-1 satellite
and pledged to invest
USD
4 billion in
oil
and
infrastructure
development?
a recent
oil
discovery in
Bojonegoro
is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in
Indonesia
?
after having over 912 million
barrels
of
oil
pumped out since the late 19th century, the
Coalinga Oil Field
, the eighth-largest
oil field
in
California
, is close to exhaustion?
Coal
coal
mining
in
Nigeria
, for which the
Nigerian Coal Corporation
had a
monopoly
until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the
Nigerian Civil War
afterwards?
replacing
firewood
with
coal
as the main
fuel
in
early modern England
led to many problems for the
local glass industry
?
the deaths of
coal
and
iron
miners in the
Forest of Dean
are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at
New Fancy
?
the first
railway in Germany
, the
Bayerische Ludwigsbahn
, was originally mostly
horse-hauled
because of the high cost of importing
coal
from
Saxony
?
Methane
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizewinner
Antje Boetius
believes life forms she discovered may be able to help control future
climate change
through
anaerobic digestion
of
methane
?
the
asphalt volcano
is a rare
underwater volcano
composed of
asphalt
and erupting
petroleum
and
methane
instead of
lava
?
Gasoline
Nazi German
leaders, including
Heinrich Himmler
, briefly fell for
Heinz Kurschildgen
's claims to be able to make
petrol
from water?
the
Electrosport
was a
US
$11,900
electric car
in 1971, when
gasoline
was 36 cents per
gallon
, and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between
Detroit
and
Chicago
?
the
gasoline pill
is one of several
fictitious
or
fraudulent
inventions that claim to
turn
water into
gasoline
?
Ammonia
in 2000, an
ammonia
discharge into a
tributary
of the
River Clun
(pictured)
in
Wales
killed its entire population of
European bullheads
?
the
bobsleigh and luge track
used for the
1992 Winter Olympics
has 80 km (50 mi) of
ammonia
refrigeration
piping and 40 km (25 mi) of
electrical conduit
running though its
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of
concrete
?
the
sea pineapple
(
pictured
), an edible
sea squirt
, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely
hallucinatory
eco-system
" and its taste as "
rubber
dipped in
ammonia
"?
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