The Oil Industry

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The first oil well, courtesy of Colonel Drake.

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The Pennsylvania oil rush.

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John D. Rockerfeller.

Owner of Standard Oil, the richest man in modern human history. The absolute madman.

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Standard Oil, the behemoth of American capitalism.

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Saudifags go and stay go

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Baku Oil fields.

Built by the Rothschilds, seized by the Soviets.

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The World's first gas station.

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Henri Deterding, the empire builder of Royal Dutch.

Later moved to Germany and became a Nazi party supporter.

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Bombing of Romanian Oil fields, WW2.

Fun fact: Japanese kamikaze pilots largely existed because of Japan's short supply of oil. They didn't have enough for return trips, so it was more economically convenient to plunge older planes into opposing ships directly.

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The golden age of America was built on the back of oil.

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1973 Oil Crisis.

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Roosevelt meets Ibn Saud.

If you ever wondered why Saudi Arabia appeared out of nowhere, why everybody talks about 'the Saudi's', have a look at Ibn Saud.

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What kind of Middle East do you want family?

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12.5 million barrels of oil per day.

Heads up:
>Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Aramco, which has an estimated value of around US$2 trillion. The government expects to earn as much as US$100 billion by selling 5 percent of Aramco in an IPO expected to take place in 2017

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Kuwaiti Oil Fields on fire.

Bravo, Saddam!

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North Sea Oil.

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jesus an actual real thread thanks Op

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rusty

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aviation fuel

OP you ever hear of the barrel strategy that helped Standard Oil build its empire? Its such a fascinating story. Il share if people interested

>>2871842
Do your thing but bring pics

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>>2871844
Pic of David Rockefeller Snr. eldest son of John D. Rockefeller Jnr. and grandson of John D. Rockefeller Snr.

Sadly only high resolution pic I have to add. I have a few but they are small as shit, 400x500 type.

There strategy was simple.

When they first started they bought out as many other small oil holdings and derricks and bits of land until they got to like the last 5 or 3 major competitors.

They attempted to buy them out which failed because they knew that the Rockefellers would create a giant unbeatable monopoly that would force everyone to bend for them.

So what does Rockefeller do? He buys out the only nationwide company that makes and distributes oil barrels, collects all the barrels and ships them to newly built sheds and factories, locks them up in there and closes down the barrelling company.

This forced the other oil companies to sell there companies out because they were mining a ton load of oil but nothing to store them in.

It was as simple and sneaky as that in the beginning. This occurred in Cleveland.

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Good lads.

I'll keep posting the some famous oil companies.

Gazprom, the World's largest private energy producer.

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Rosneft, the World's largest publicly traded oil company.

Noir Russia's eternal backdrop.

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ExxonMobil, valued at approximately $390 Billion.

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PetroChina, fuel for a new empire.

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BP, the World's biggest provider of butthurt since 2010.

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Royal Dutch Shell, my favourite business story of any company. Have a look into it if you have the time, it's fascinating.

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Anyway, let's get to the good part.

Is there anything more beautiful than a late night gas station?

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oily skin

>>2872130
Top kek

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Dumping some pics of photographer Sebastião Salgado's trip to kuwait oil fields in 91.

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oily hair

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>Sebastião Salgado
Thanks friend. This is what this board should be for. Not this bizarre celebrity worship weirdness. Much appreciation.

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Have some oil related photos I've taken.
Nothing special but maybe someone will appreciate it anyway.

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>>2873955

Fascinating images. Thanks for sharing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_oil_fuel


Leave this here for you guys.

>>2871633
Great stuff I really enjoyed this

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoqIRSZ818M
relevant

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>>2874840
Why do I feel like this guy is full of shit?
Where's the fucking oil industry part?

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Great thread!

This is sick OP, your thread has not gone unnoticed

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Towing the Statfjord "B" platform out from its construction site near Stavanger, Norway, August, 1981.

>>2871648
>Rothschilds property seized by Soviets
That just the story we're told. We all know who REALLY seized the Rothschilds oil

>>2876686
Please enlighten us.

Do you guys think a golden age of electricity and clean energy is coming?

>>2876689
Not for a while. Non-petroleum energy sources are still relatively expensive and except for hydro and nuclear, intermittent.

"Expensive" meaning relative to fossil fuels. The oil industry understands more than most how the law of supply and demand works. For a brief time, gas prices in America went up to European prices. American innovation started coming up with all sorts of ways to conserve or use alternatives, because the relative price had equalized or made them more attractive. The price for gas dropped, innovation stopped, and we're all back on the derrick teat. That price hike may very well have been just a feeler to see where the price ceiling was.

>>2876689
Clean energy is certainly progressing at a rapid pace.
At least in some places. Do I think the Oil companies in the US will let go that easily? no.

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Barrancabermeja, Colombia

>>2871640
but was he happy?

>>2871655

>Fun fact: Japanese kamikaze pilots largely existed because of Japan's short supply of oil.

Ah, no. It wasn't about fuel shortage since they often used full fuel tanks as part of the explosive or incendiary payload. Kamikaze pilots and their aircraft were nothing more than human guided bombs since the Japs didn't have the technology for electronic guidance systems. The reason they weren't given enough fuel for a return trip was because their mission was only intended to be one way and as a deterrent to any of them pussying out. They weren't given enough fuel to fly to anywhere else except to their intended target (sometimes not even enough for that) and trying to return to base meant death for the pilot and dishonor for his family. Most pilots were taught how to take off and fly to a point on a map using basic navigation skills but unless they had previous flying experience, they weren't taught how to land safely.

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Deepwater Horizon

>>2878837
He was principled and successful on his own terms. He worked his way from the bottom to the very top and when his peers lavished their newfound wealth on degeneracy and ostentation, he practiced relentless frugality and self-control and worked to instill those virtues in his children.

I think he was rather satisfied with the life he built.

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OC from me

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>>2872119
I wish someone would tell me what fucking fascinates me so much about oil.

Whether it's gas stations at night, or oilrigs in the rising sun, I'm fucking mad about oil, the smell of oil makes me feel like drinking it. I've seen all the coolest shit there is to be seen on the planet, I've felt the earth shake as volcanoes exploded, I've been trapped in storms so violent the universe shivered in fear, I've danced under heavy artillery to the tune of CRAMs...

And then, I see a gas flare in the distance, and my dick gets HARD.

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Also allow me to post my perfume. It kinda smells like gasoline, but then it's still a perfume, albeit not to everyone's tastes, and then the bottle reminds me of oil rig in the sunset.

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not remotely funny

>>2871847
>David Rockefeller in HR
no thank you please

>>2881745
Cool!
My OC was
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Page of doom WD40 lubrication shifts all

>>2874840
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QhH6LgYpM
he's not wrong

>>2871633

Just wanted to thank OP for this marvellous thread. I loved the historical approach. It seems like your a cool bro. Would love to have a pint wiht you.

>>2871847
Thats gotta be the highest resolutioned pic of a rat I've ever seen

>>2893745
fuck you

>>2893797
>jew

>>2871655
"Ploesti" is the name associated with the Romanian fields in question. The mission succeeded through dumb luck.

>>2871847
His skin had the consistency of sandpaper.

>>2879349
Glad this correction was posted.

>glorifying the killing of mother nature

>>2879349

>Most pilots were taught how to take off and fly to a point on a map using basic navigation skills but unless they had previous flying experience, they weren't taught how to land safely.

I always wondered about this. Because if it was me, I would just ditch the plane and surrender to the Americans, rather than face certain death. But if you didn't know how to land properly, much less make a forced landing, you would be fucked anyway.

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Are you asking for a quick rundown?

>>2881604
What a pity he utterly failed with his kids and the rockefeller foundation is the cancer trying trying desperately to kill the west.

>>2884831
Pazflor, Block 17, Angola.
I've done a hitch on that shit hole.

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hydrocarbons

>>2871847
Funny that the barrel thing is not mentioned at all in any history of John D Rockefeller or Standard Oil