One might find it hard to correlate the relationship between oil fields and make-up products. In a bizarre way though, they go hand-in-hand. In the mid-to-late 1800’s, when Edwin Drake’s oil discovery...
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Matthew Blockus
The Machine That Converts Plastic Into Oil
For years, one Japanese man has been hard at work creating a machine that will convert one of our society’s most common items back into the oil from which it was made. Akinori Ito, the CEO of Japanese company...
The Slow Motion Oil Spill That You Can Help Stop
Almost every time you visit the gas station, it happens. In that split second between the pump shutting off and you placing the nozzle back in its seat, a few valuable drops of gasoline fall onto the ground next to your...
Shell Granted Permission to Export U.S.-Produced Crude
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...
Why Oil Refineries Emit Fireballs
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...
The Hidden Oil Rigs of L.A.
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...
Oil and Life in the Deep Biosphere
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...
The World’s Largest Ship That Can Move Oil Rigs
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...
The Petrobot Project
In an ever-progressing chain of developments designed to make the dirty work of oil production more safe and efficient, an ongoing project helmed by Shell is currently experimenting with new methods to change the way...
The Magic Wand for Cleaning Oil Spills
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...