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Category: Culture

Top 5 Iconic Rides from modern Hollywood Films and their Famous (or infamous) Drivers

There's been a lot of cool movies, a lot of cool cars, and a lot of cool actors driving cool cars. We've seen endless…

Pennsylvania once provided 1/3 of the world’s oil. The result? 200,000 abandoned and explosive oil wells.

In March of 1848, a Mormon merchant named Samuel Brannan confirmed the discovery of vast amounts of gold buried in the…

Trash vs. Treasure: Creatively Reusing Plastic Bottles

We all know the familiar idiom, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The implication being, of course, that what…

Milk & Oil: The Story of the Gilmore Oil Company

There’s no use crying over spilled milk, especially when it leads to bigger and better things—for the Gilmore Family, what…

Understanding the Whale Oil Myth and the Rise of Petroleum

The whale oil myth: thanks to the free market, petroleum arrived in the nick of time to save the dwindling whales…

A Video Message From Our President

https://youtu.be/NLYT4G-Fb9E Announcing our red brick studio at PSC Here at Petroleum Service Company, we’re proud to say that we have…

The Fascinating Relationship Between Hydraulic Systems and Spiders

What do spiders and hydraulic presses have in common? If your immediate thought is something along the lines of crushing…

The New and Improved Petroleum Service Company

We Are Industrial Pioneers Petroleum Service Company is the pioneer of online petroleum sales. But what does that mean, exactly? If you…

Happy Memorial Day from Petroleum Service Company

This Memorial Day, Petroleum Service Company and Industrial Outpost fondly remember -- and deeply thank -- the many, brave men…

GE Hot Sauce is Like Jet Engine Fuel

142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 K 10^32 K (142 nonillion kelvins) is possibly the highest known temperature, according to the standard model of particle…