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CBC.ca

Past problems for company at heart of oil spill
The Associated Press
A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river has experienced leaks, an explosion and dozens of ...
US Warned on Corrosion Checks on Pipeline in Midwest Oil SpillWall Street Journal
Company had sketchy record on oil pipelinesSeattle Times
Midwest oil messChicago Tribune
New York Times (blog) -Reuters -CNN
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Kansas City Star

NYMEX-Oil pauses from strong gain, near $78 ahead of US Q2 GDP
Reuters Africa
[ID:nTOE66S012] * Oil's gains on Thursday came on the back of a weakening in the US dollar against the euro, boosting demand for oil priced in dollars, ...
OIL FUTURES: Nymex Crude Climbs, Helped By Weaker DollarWall Street Journal
Oil Gains on Dollar's Weakness (USO)Benzinga
New Oil Pares Gain to Trade Unchanged at $76.99 a BarrelBusinessWeek
Bloomberg -UPI.com -Reuters
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Reuters

Oil lobbyists spill into halls in DC
Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON — Even before crude began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the oil industry was waging an uphill fight against $36.5 ...
Day 100: The Latest on the Oil SpillNew York Times
A final fix to gulf oil leak may be at handLos Angeles Times
FACTBOX-Developments in the Gulf of Mexico oil spillReuters
BusinessWeek -Washington Post (blog) -Huffington Post (blog)
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Telegraph.co.uk

BP's Hayward Defends Tenure, Spill Response
Wall Street Journal
BP's numbers have moved up slowly since the oil stopped flowing in recent weeks. One sign of hope: BP still scores higher than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., ...
Another Oil Spill In The Gulf AreaPRLog.Org (press release)
The BP spill's costly lessonsToronto Star
Dudley to follow Hayward's lead at BPEconomic Times
Forex Pros -Gerson Lehrman Group -All247News (blog)
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CBC.ca

Lawyers, Far From Gulf, Skirmish on Spill Claims
New York Times
Blog posts about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But Boise is where the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation was scheduled to meet this ...
BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stageReuters
Lawyers appeal for rights of venue in oil litigationWall Street Journal
US panel asked to consolidate oil spill lawsuitsThe Associated Press
Voice of America -Bloomberg -WDSU New Orleans
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 * Internet Search Results * 

The history of the oil industry in North America
While oil seeps had been seen in the Middle East, Asia, and in many other places throughout the world, the majority of oil discoveries in the first 50 years were ...

History of Oil Use
One thousand links for anyone who wants to learn how North America uses its fossil fuel resources.

Oil History by Samuel T. Pees
Introduction to Oil History: Coincidence, timing and luck combined to get the first concerted search for oil underway in the 1850's. The right eyes saw a sample bottle of crude oil ...

PetroleumHistory.com - an index of early petroleum sites
Early Petroleum History ... The Early Days of the History of the Oil Industry - by Samuel T. Pees (finally back up thanks to the Petroleum History Institute.)

The Drake Well - the first oil well...in Pennsylvania?
The Story of Oil in Pennsylvania. The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859.

San Joaquin Geological Society
Info on SJGS; Geology of SJV; Learn About Oil; History of Oil; Home

Oil Industry History
History of the Oil industry. Brief overview of the main history of the oil industry.

Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill ...
As the Gulf Coast deals with the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, the Midwest is now facing an oil spill of its own.

Introduction to Oil History
Like the 1849 gold rush which saw multitudes of would-be miners arrive in the frontier regions of California, a similar phenomenon took place a decade later in 1859 in America's ...

MMS investigations of oil-rig accidents have history of inconsistency
A year and a day before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, crew members on a neighboring oil rig found themselves bracing for their own ...