On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Actor John Wayne played an oil well firefighter from Houston,Texas whose life was similar to Adair's.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Rockefeller was part of a group of businessmen who built an oil processing center in Ohio.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Last Friday night,an oil pipeline broke under the Yellowstone River in the western state of Montana.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

The Deepwater Horizon, an oil and gas drilling rig, exploded on April twentieth.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

We stop at the mouth of an inlet where an oil boom should have been set.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

"Henry Ford,of course,discovered,' You know what, I can make automobile trunk lids and fenders out of soybean oil'" Since then,Jackson says that researchers have produced an incredible range of products made from soybeans.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

As host of this year's World Jatropha Summit, the government in Accra is seeking greater investment in the hardy plant whose seeds can be crushed into an oil that is processed into high-quality biodiesel.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says armed with assault rifles and heavy machine guns raided an oil facility jointly operated by Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron in Rivers state.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

He says the Keys have been lucky,so far. "I hate to use the work lucky in terms of an oil spill, because someone else is having a lot of issues and we know where the environment is having issues."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Smelling the oil she has in the kitchen now is like breathing in an entire field of lavender flowers.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Justin Willis,an East Africa researcher at Britain's Durham University, says Sudan's oil industry is deep in mystery.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

Soybean is an important seed around the world, but it is only twenty percent oil.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

We have been doing business with them." British Petroleum plans to plug the leaking oil well with an experimental well cap.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

It is an ideological arrangement. But PDVSA suffers, because it could be selling that oil to the United States for hard currency."

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Matt Rota,an environmentalist with The Gulf Restoration Network says if the oil makes landfall here, it will spell trouble for the entire coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Nigeria plans to offer inhabitants of the Niger Delta an extra 10 percent in oil and gas revenues in a bid to end the rebellion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

An estimated 700 million liters of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20th explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

An explosion nearly two weeks ago aboard the now-sunken oil rig killed 11 workers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02