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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Oil News, 7 April 1938 |
| Library | Bodleian Library |
| Date | 7 Apr 1938 |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Description | This issue includes information on The Mexican Oil Situation, the disposal of petroleum waste, the petroleum situation in Alaska, Soviet oil production, oil shares, UK oil imports and the movement of tankers. |
| Document Type | Journal, Report |
| Primary Commodity | Oil |
| Theme | Cultivation; Exploration and Discovery; Trade and Commerce; Ecology and the Environment |
| Keywords | taxation, petroleum, oil well, coal, drilling, pollution, hydrocarbon exploration, conflict, minerals, refinery, fuel, gas, gasoline, market, shares, stocks and shares, importation, exportation, shipping, costs and prices, soil, flora and fauna |
| Region | Central America and the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, North America |
| Places | Romania; UK; Trinidad; USA; Japan; Mexico; Venezuela; France; Italy; Russia |
| Company or Organisation | Shell Oil Company |
| Additional Information | Founded by J T Smith, a former sub-editor of the Daily News with a specialist interest in the production and uses of oil and petroleum, Oil News started just 53 years after Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first well at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania in 1859, and 1 year before Henry Ford introduced the first true production line to speed up the building of his automobiles. Oil News was written both for insiders and for potential investors in the industry. Issued weekly, it soon reached a circulation of 5,000 copies — remarkable for a trade journal. |
| Copyright | Bodleian Library |