The Ancient History of Petroleum: A Hydrocarbon Built for Industry
The history of oil is often told in a modern context: James Young, Edwin Drake, the sprouting oil wells of…
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The Stacking Dilemma: What Do You Do With Not-In-Service Oil Rigs?
Understanding the oil industry isn't exactly easy--for starters, nobody even knows exactly how much oil is actually underground. The oil market ebbs…
“Intelligent” machinery threatens to take the manufacturing jobs of millions – and “experts” believe this to be a good thing
If you’ve stepped inside a modern manufacturing plant, you have probably witnessed, first-hand, the brilliance of industrial machinery. For whatever…
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…
How America helped create the trillion-dollar Saudi Arabian Oil Industry
September 1933, a few miles inland from the Persian Gulf, near Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Two American geologists lag behind a…
Henry Ford’s “Fuel of the Future” was Ethanol — so why are we still using gasoline?
Spend a single summer afternoon on the boardwalk in Atlantic City and you might soon understand the motives behind the…
Quality Base Oils: The Foundation of a Great Lubricant
Lubricants used in industrial or vehicular applications are generally comprised of two components: a base oil and an additive package.…
Mind your own Big Business: Industry hangs on for dear life in America
In late 2014, the United States economy finally succumbed to its long-prophesied fall behind the world-leading China.* According to columnist…
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PSC has been hard at work to provide you with much more than the exceptional products and services that we’re…
The Problem With Petroleum — Crying Over Spilled Oil
It’s hurting both your profits and the earth – but as a natural substance, why do the various ecosystems of…