INDEX
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Advantages of liquid fuel, 78
A few notable petroleum enterprises, 148
American petroleum exports, 163
America’s crude oil production, 160
America, the petroleum industry in, 8
Anglo-American Oil Company, Ltd., the, 156
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., the, 153
Baku-Batoum pipe-line, 24, 69
Baku, boring operations in, 22
——, the oil-fields of, 19
British Empire, petroleum in, 114
Burmah Oil Company, Ltd., the, 152
——, the oil fields of, 35
California petroleum industry, 9
Canada, petroleum in, 118
Chemical composition of petroleum, 52
Cooking by means of oil, 93
Distillation of Scottish oil shales, 144
Drilling methods for oil, 41
Dutch Indies, petroleum in the, 23
Egyptian oil-fields, the, 116
Empire oil, 114
England, petroleum in, 104
England’s petroleum trade, 160
Famous oil companies, 148
Fifty years’ American production, 160
—— —— Russian production, 164
Galicia’s crude oil production, 162
Galicia, the oil-fields of, 36
Germany’s attempts at oil production, 39
—— march on Roumania, 30
—— output of crude oil, 162
Hand-dug wells in Roumania, 29
Heathfield, natural gas in, 109
How petroleum is produced, 41
—— —— is refined, 51
—— the Scottish shales are operated, 136
Internal combustion engines, 95
Japan, petroleum in, 36
Liquid fuel in the Navy, 78
Lord Cowdray’s enterprise in England, 111
—— —— —— Mexico, 16, 151
Maikop oil boom, the, 20
Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., new engines of, 96, 102
Methods of drilling wells, 43
Mexico’s crude oil production, 161
—— petroleum industry, 12
Ocean oil transport facilities, 71
Oil fuel advantages, 82
Origin of petroleum, 3
Petroleum as fuel, 76
—— in England, 104
—— in historical times, 2
Petroleum’s part in the Great War, 123
Petroleum, the production of, 41
——, the refining of, 51
——, the world’s output of, 158
Remarkable oil wells in Mexico, 14
Rotary system of drilling, 48
Roumania, petroleum industry of, 28
Roumania’s crude oil production, 160
Russia, petroleum industry of, 18
Russia’s crude oil production, 164
Scottish oil pipe-line, 70
—— shale-oil industry, 132
“Shell” Company and the Dutch Indies, 33
—— Transport and Trading Co., the, 150
Sir Marcus Samuel, Bart., and toluol supplies, 130
Solar oil for gas enrichment purposes, 61
Staffordshire, petroleum in, 106
Texas, the oil-fields of, 10
Toluol from Borneo petroleum, 62
Transport of petroleum, 63
Trinidad, progress in, 117
Vicker’s oil engines, 102
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