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2. Pennsylvania oil rush - Wikipedia

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   The rush to Pennsylvania created violent swings in the petroleum market for the first decade of the oil boom. In 1861, the proliferation of wells across the Oil Creek Valley pushed the price of oil down from $10 a barrel to 10 cents a barrel. In response, producers in the region formed the Oil Creek Association to restrict output and maintain a ...

3. Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil - Wikipedia

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   Refining processes and routing in refinery for Pennsylvania crude petroleum, 1921. (Source: Marshall, 1921) Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil is a type of sweet crude oil (sweet crude oil), found primarily in the Appalachian basin in the Marcellus Formation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, and takes its name for the state of Pennsylvania, where it was first ...

4. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Petroleum has been a major industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as "Big Oil", the industry includes exploration, production, refining, transportation, and marketing of oil and natural gas products. [1] The leading crude oil-producing areas in the United States ...

5. Trainer Refinery - Wikipedia

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   Owner (s) Monroe Energy, LLC ( Delta Air Lines) Capacity. 185,000 bbl/d (29,400 m 3 /d) Trainer Refinery is an oil refining facility located in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The facility is downstream from the Port of Chester and fifteen miles southwest of Philadelphia along the Delaware River. Stoney Creek is along its northern perimeter.

6. History of the petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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   Coal oil Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the 19th century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...

7. Pennsylvania county joins other local governments in suing ...

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   A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the ...