They’ve always said diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but they never specified whether or not that included man-made diamonds. Recently, De Beers—the leading diamond miner in the world—announced that they...
I was recently on a train and saw an ad for Dr. Martens—also known as “Docs, ” “Doc Martens,” and “Doctor Martens”—that read “Engineered from Industry, Championed through Music, Worn by Individuals.” Dr...
With the arrival of Spring, it’s time to clean your diesel fluid with Power Service Diesel Kleen +Cetane Boost! The diesel injector detergent provides maximum clean-up and prevents diesel deposits in modern...
Industries are always evolving and a lot has changed over the years. Check out some of the latest industry news and interesting histories that helped shape our industrial world.
According to a January 2015 Wall Street Journal article, Shell has officially been granted permission to export U.S. produced crude oil to offshore markets. Don’t worry though, because this will not make much of a...
A few days before Christmas 2014, the San Francisco Bay Area was shocked to find a fire lighting the nighttime sky. Citizens worried that the source of the blaze was the Chevron oil refinery located in the community of...
Millions of viewers were glued to their televisions on February 1 when the New England Patriots faced off against the Seattle Seahawks in Superbowl XLIX. The Superbowl is usually known for a great game, great halftime...
Before Los Angeles was known for making movies, it was known for making something else; oil. Believe it or not, L.A. used to be a small seaside town until the late 1800’s. In 1892, Edward L. Doheny discovered the...
The deep biosphere. It almost looks like the setting for a subterranean, Hollywood adventure film. The biosphere is the layer of Earth that is home to life and all of its ecosystems. However, it is also the location of...
Move over Titanic. There’s a new supersize ship making waves that everybody should soon become familiar with. Enter the Pieter Schelte, the world’s current largest ship, which can pull decommissioned oil...
Royal Dutch Shell signed a deal with Iraq on January 28 to build a petrochemical plant in the Basra oil hub, located in the south of the country, and have it up and running in the next five to six years. The Nibras...
Oil spills are a messy and unavoidable fact of life on Earth. When they happen, particularly in environments containing water, there hasn’t been a clear-cut way to effectively and entirely remove oil from the...
For a controversial practice such as fracking, it might seem a bit odd to think that beans are partially responsible for making it all happen. Meet guar – a glorified lima bean that is largely grown in India and...
A pair of researchers at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions have recently come to an unexpected conclusion about what the “best” oil price is. It’s neither high nor low, but somewhere in the...
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