In nineteen twenty-eight, he got a job flying the plane that belonged to a rich oil producer from Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Before long, he controlled ninety-five percent of the oil processing industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

In nineteen thirty-eight, Adair got his first oil-related job with the Otis Pressure Control Company.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Ms.Casey-Lefkowitz says it would carry the oil more than three thousand kilometers, crossing the central United States -- and the Ogallala -- for processing in Texas.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Natural micro-organisms in the water helped eat the oil and clean up the spill.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

He went to work in the oil-producing areas of Texas.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

While clean-up continues in Louisiana,Alabama and Mississippi, officials in Florida are watching to guard against oil damage here as well.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Venezuelan oil analyst Juan Carlos Sosa says the government has diverted funds from oil infrastructure in order to sustain ever-more-expensive socialist initiatives.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Because of the oil-rich bran layer, it spoils quickly if not refrigerated or stored in vacuum-sealed bags.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

The oil slick threatens ever-larger swaths of the U.S.coastline, placing sensitive marine ecosystems in peril.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

MAN ON TV. ; You add a little bit of olive oilto a non-stick saute pan, and you want to cookwith the olive oil in medium-high heat.

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Its founders began oil explorations in modern-day Iran more than 100 years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

She also spoke of Washington's willingness to work with allies to end violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta and the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled Kivu regions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

The secretary reportedly has been trying to mediate between Kurdish leaders and the central government in Baghdad, over a thorny territorial dispute over the oil-rich region of Kirkuk.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Among other things, he said the company will establish a $100 million fund to support drilling-rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico who are unemployed because of the oil giant's massive spill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

An Iranian delegation, including Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazemi, met with Turkish counterparts in Ankara this week, to sign a deal to build a new natural gas pipeline and to increase gas sales to Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

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

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"It is a double track approach,of course, to have a very clear position on sanctions, not only on Security Council, but specific new measures from the European Union on the financial side - on the oil and gas sector, in all elements that can give to Iran a very clear message that they have to move and respond to the requirements of the international community."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28