Natural gas, as you know, was an area that 50 years ago was literally blown off of oil wells.

FORBES: Scouting the Globe for Small Caps

Lowes, who started on pole, took the win when leader Graeme Gowland retired with a blown engine which left oil on the track and brought out the red flag.

BBC: Croft win takes Sam Lowes to brink of Supersport title

Impeding plans for reconstruction, two Iraqi oil pipelines were blown up.

ECONOMIST: That elusive ceasefire

Most of them are tied up protecting oil pipelines (one was blown up 66 times last year), bridges and public buildings.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

The oil fields didn't get blown up.

CNN: Sen. Joe Biden: 'Tell the American people the truth'

As much as 40, 000 barrels (1.7m gallons) of oil a day may have been gushing from a blown-out well before a cap was put on it on 3 June, capturing some of the leak.

BBC: BP criticism not about nationality, says Obama

However, experts say the pollution could have been caused by oil which had leaked from the wreck some time ago and was blown back to land by strong winds.

BBC: French sub to resume Prestige dives

He's something of an up and comer, and he's pretty well known in Alaska for having blown the whistle on some of the questionable connections between fellow legislators and the oil industry a couple of years ago.

NPR: Alaska's Sen. Stevens Wins GOP Primary

Analysts cite that disruption, along with the potential for a full-blown conflict with Iran, as the main reason behind a 20% spike in oil and gasoline prices this year.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The fourth health warning is that presidents of both parties can be blown off course by shocks elsewhere in the global economy, such as the quadrupling of oil prices in 1973-74.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

The edible oil factory, a big flour mill, the hospital and customs office have totally collapsed - apparently blown up.

BBC: De-mining in the Horn