BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1780-1939
Selected Titles from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library Newspaper Library, London
Series Three: Industrial Enterprise
Part 1: Oil News, 1912-1939

Sample Topics Covered

Part 1: Oil News, 1912-1939

Oil News produced its own detailed indexes on an annual basis and these were bound into the volumes held at the Bodleian Library. They either appear at the front of the year concerned or within the January issues of the year to which they relate.

The following sample topics give an idea of the overall content of the journal.

An Empire Oil Boom
An Oil Survey of Canada
A New Zealand Co.
Oil and Germany
The Dutch Shell
The Trinidad Monopoly
Warships and oil fuel
1914 Oil Exhibition
Asiatic’s new offices
Attractiveness of Roumania
More warnings about South Africa
Russian Oil Prices
Discoveries in Argentina
American Oil Men
Deep Drilling
Benzol and how to use it
Biggest oil tank ship
Oil Driven locomotives
Oil Find in Alberta
A Californian Gusher
Standard “Wild Cat” in La Habra Valley
China Imports at Tientsin
Imports at Yokohama
Japan Oil Industry
Increased output in Texas
French Navy’s Fuel Oil Crisis
Strike at Baku Oil Fields
Standard Oils Agreement with China
New Oil Patents
Oil Shales of Utah and Colorado
Launch of Anglo-Persian Oil
Petroleum and the War
The Russian Petroleum Industry and its prospects

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