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A female operator working on Baku oil fields during the Second World War.  ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Launch of operations at Ukhta oil-well. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Pumping oil jacks at the Surgut field.  <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Oil pumps of the Chekmagushneft directorate. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Oil pumps. ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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One of the first Azerbaijan party organization leaders Sergei Kirov (second right) gets to know the oilers' work.  ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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1970s 1980s CARS LINED UP AT GAS PUMPS GAS STATION OIL CRISIS OPEC SHORTAGE

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Table shows North Sea Production Licenses allocated to oil companies who are currently searching  by drilling methods in the North sea.<br>British Petroleum struck gas about 9000 ft below the North Sea, and have become the first company now drilling for positive proof that the precious fuel exists in the area at all.<br>7 October 1965

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USA Alaska -- 28 Mar 1989 -- Workers steam blast rocks soaked in crude oil from the leaking tanker Exxon Valdez. The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA on the 23rd March, 1989 spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil, which resulted in the largest oil spill in US history. USGS photo -- Picture by Lightroom Photos / USGS

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KUWAIT -- 1991 -- An aerial view of oil fires set by retreating Iraqi troops in the last days of the Persian Gulf War (late 1990 to early 1991) in Kuwait. The resulting inferno emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, while locally the thick smoke blocked sunlight, lowered temperatures, and engulfed the area in a mist of microscopic oil droplets. US National Science Foundation-funded researchers collected data on the ground and in the air using heavily instrumented planes. This was some of the most extensive data collected on the atmospheric behavior of the fire's giant smoke plumes -- Picture by Robert Bumpas / Lightroom Photos / US NCAR

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1859 DRAKE OIL WELL WORLDS FIRST DRILLED OIL COLONEL DRAKE ON RIGHT TITUSVILLE PA DRILL DERRICK

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1930s FAMOUS SPINDLETOP OIL FIELD BEAUMONT TEXAS ROWS OF WOODEN OIL RIGS DERRICKS

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1920s-30s LINE-UP OF GAS PUMPS

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1970s SORRY TEMPORARILY OUT OF GASOLINE SIGN DURING OIL SHORTAGE CRISIS OPEC SELF SERVICE GAS STATION AMERICAN FLAG

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1970 1970s SORRY NO GAS SIGN BESIDE GAS PUMPS AT GARAGE STATION  DUE TO THE OPEC OIL CRISIS

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TRANS ALASKA PIPELINE HEADS TOWARD PUMP STATION #6  ALASKA

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OIL REFINERY

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Several vessels wrecked in the Kerch Strait in a storm and polluted the environment.

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A pit head c.1820 - pit head of a coalmine with steam winding gear - anonymous British artist - although rarely done and clumsy some Newcomen engines were made rotative at the end of the nighteenth century and adapted to winding from shallow pits.  Oil on canvas in The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.<br>©TopFoto

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Oil Bell Pits

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Wooden barrels were the only means of transporting oil during the earliest days of the Pennsylvania oil boom, and there were times when the barrels were worth more than the oil. Shown above is a wood burning locomotives pull long trains of steel tank cars.

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Oil Well at McKittrick, California 1890

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&quotThe American Dream". Texas. 1901 Oil Strike Spindletop near Houston.

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Aserbaidschan (Asien Vorderasien Kaukasus) / Suraxani; <br>Oelfoerdergebiet Bibi Heyat bei Baku; das verfallene, verschmutzte Gelaende<br>- 24.06.2004<br><br> <english> Azerbaijan; Oil producion of Bibi Heyat near Baku ; polluted ground </english>

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&quotBlack Magic; Or, the New King Coal."

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&quotA Second String. King Coal (jauntily, to Britannia). 'Afraid I've cut one or two of our dances.' Britannia. 'Oh, don't apologise! It's given me the opportunity of making the better acquaintance of Prince Petroleo - very nice and gushing. You musn't think you'll always be indispensible.'"

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Desert Victory

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Excelsior and Excalibur worlds first ship transfer of liquid gas Scapa Flow LNG tanker SHIPPING TRANSPORT

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5587569 (the general German automobile club (General German Automobile Association) demands 2259) FD (key/ol) own data according to of the mineral oil companies the renouncement of an increase of the gasoline prices to the Ostertagen. Since the prices for fuels would already be for several weeks on a high level, a further rise was not justified, so the General German Automobile Association further. U.B.z.: Germany, Berlin, 13.03.2007: Symbol tanks, car with Aral super refuelled at a gas station of the Aral AG. symbol refuelling, [KEY CLAY/TONE SERVICE PICTURE use only with permission and against fee, voucher, denomination and to our AGB. Only to the editorial use. Fees on: KEY CLAY/TONE Pressedienst, HASPA, BLZ 200,505 50, acct. 1235130877], Germany, Germany, DEU, GER, s02502, field recording, color, 21. Century, economics, gas station, gas stations, Aral, Aral AG, Aral gas station, car, landscape format, passenger car, gasoline, refuel, tank, autotank, filler pistol, symbol, hand, price, prices, gasoline price, gasoline prices refuel

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5587553 (2259) FD (key/ol) the fuel prices in Germany rose at the beginning of of May 2007 according to data energy of the news service (OATH) to a record level. In the country wide average the liter premium fuel continued to cost 1.40 euro per liter, so the OATH. A justification for the high prices would not give it according to data of the general German automobile club (General German Automobile Association), since the oil price was to a large extent constant for weeks. U.B.z.: Germany, Berlin, 13.03.2007: Symbol tanks, car with superDiesel refuelled at a gas station of the Aral AG. Gas station [KEY CLAY/TONE SERVICE PICTURE use only with permission and against fee, voucher, denomination and to our AGB. Only to the editorial use. Fees on: KEY CLAY/TONE Pressedienst, HASPA, BLZ 200,505 50, acct. 1235130877], Germany, Germany, DEU, GER, s02502, field recording, color, 21. Century, economics, gas station, gas stations, Aral, Aral AG, Aral gas station, car, landscape format, passenger car, gasoline, refuel, tank, autotank, filler pistol, symbol, hand, key stick, Diesels, diesel engined vehicle, Diesel car, Diesel car, Diesel passenger car, Diesel fuel, price, prices, gasoline price, gasoline prices refuel

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USA. UTAH.<br>OIL WELL IN INDIAN RESERVE

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A gusher in the Pennsylvanian oilfields. Wood engraving 1886

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Baku oilfields in South Western Azerbaijan.  A 'gusher' spouting out a fountain of oil before it has been brought under control.  Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 June 1886).

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Oil wells at Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.    Engraving from Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris, c1870).

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Oil wells at Oil Creek, 150 miles up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.    Engraving from The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics edited by Edward H Knight (New York and London, c1880)

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The oil region of Los Angeles, California, USA.  Oil derricks in what had been a residential area of Los Angeles.  From The Practical Grocer (London, 1905).   Halftone.

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 Nobel Brothers oil wells at Baku (Baky or Baki), Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 3 July 1886). Fuel. Hydrocarbon.

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Oil springs at Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania, USA.  Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 8 November 1862).  Fuel. Hydrocarbon.

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Kicking-down' a well. The spring-pawl method of sinking a oil well, using a drilling bit suspended on a rope.  Engraving from Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris, c1870).  Fuel. Hydrocarbon. Boring.

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Edwin Laurentine Drake (1810-1880), American oil pioneer, striking oil near Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, 27 August 1859.   Engraving from Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris, c1870). n

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Incendie des puits de pétrole à Bakou, le 14 septembre 1903. Les trois fontaines à Bibi-Eïbat en flammes.     RV-308676<br>Fire in the oilfields of Baku, Azerbaijan<br>14th September  1903

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Billboard advertising campaign to limit speed to 55 mpr to save gas.  1970's oil crisis.  Ayatollah Khomeini  ©Charles Gatewood / The Image Works

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Austerity.  Gas station closed during the 1970s oil crisis

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Iran Premier Dr. Mohammed Mossedegh (Mossedeq) (right) shakes hands with Mr. Richard Stokes , Lord Privy Seal and Britains Oil Envoy together with Mr. Harriman - 22nd August 1951

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Mr F W Rickett - the 47 year old mystery man who negotiated the £10,000,000 oil deal with the Emperor of Abyssinia which amazed the world - arrived at Croydon from Prague<br>While on the Continent Mr Rickett revealed that he was held up in Cairo by two men armed with revolvers<br>The men stole his bag in the belief Mr Rickett supposes that it contained the important oil agreement<br>Photo shows Mr F W Rickett on arrival at Croydon<br>September 12th 1935

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Fall of Port Harcourt<br>Oil Tanks on fire at the Port Harcourt Refinery in Biafra, after it had been captured by Government forces.<br>Port Harcourt was the last major stronghold of the breakaway Eastern Region of Nigeria.

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Norco, Louisiana:  Young boy sits on basketball court  next to an oil refinery in Louisiana's &quotCancer Alley".<br>©Mark Ludak/The Image Works

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Pouring asphalt, a by product of oil, at one of the oil workings in Trinidad.<br>December 1947

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Gulf War - the destruction of the oil fields which caused immediate and long lasting damage to the environment and all life in the region

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Oil lake burning, Kuwait

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?? Gulbenkian, 81 year old recluse, believed to be the world's richest man, is pictured here as he leaves his luxury hotel in Lisbon, 22nd January 1951.  The rarely photographed oil king made £500,000 in five minutes earlier in the month when Shell Oil shares rose by ten shillings.<br>Born at Constantine of Armenian parents in 1869, Gulbenkian's ambition is to live to be 106.  He claims his father died at the age of 105.<br>Now more a recluse than ever, the man who became a naturalised Briton in 1902 rarely leaves his hotel, and when he does it is only for a short tour in an American limousine he hires at a flat daily rate of £6 10s.

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Azerbaijan:  The one hundred year old Iljitsh oil field on the Caspian Sea.  7/92.  #2784<br>©Josef Polleross/ The Image Works  CPLR0664

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Precious resources (both water and oil) squandered.

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Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie pulled the lever to start drilling operations in search of oil at the Gumbona hills in Ethipia's Ogaden Desert 1949. On the left is Walter J Wells, field operations superintendent at Sinclair's oil camp.

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&quotKuwait - steel nightmare"

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 59 year old Nelson Rockefeller one of the richest men in America with a personal fortune estimated at £82 million mainly from oil investments<br>14th March 1968

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Oil pipeline, Eilat - Haifa.

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President of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Dr Armand Hammer (L) shakes hands with Libya's Minister of Petroleum Affiars, Khalifa Musa, during testings on the first oilwell. <br>Zueitina, Libya - 25th April 1968

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  ' Fuga de...'<br>Oil well /  uncapped<br>Venezuela

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 " Incendio Pozos Guerra Golfo "<br>Two men watching blazing fires during the Gulf War

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Yanayacu oilfield in Pacaya Samiria Nati Reserve Peru

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A man covered in oil working on a oil well.

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Firemen dressed in special full length suits, trying to put out a blaze from burning oil.

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&quotCaption: Lago, Agrio, Ecudaor: working on pipeline into rain forest ©Lou Dematteis/The Image Works  CDEM0452"

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oil pollution engulfs bird

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Floor traders on the International Petroleum Exchange react as oil prices surged passed 26 pound a barrel in London, UK, August 1990

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Oil deliberately pumped into the sea by Iraq during the Gulf War covers the surface of the sea and is washed onto a beach in northern Saudi Arabia.<br>January 1991

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A demo by Greenpeace aboard The Brent Spar Oil Installation in the North Sea May 22nd 1995

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Saudi Arabia:  An ARAMCO official supervises work at an oil rig in the Howta oil fields near Howta south of Riyadh Feb. 22, 1997. Saudi Arabia has the richest known oil reserves of any country in the world.  02/22/97<br>©John Moore/The Image Works

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