Big Oil is a name sometimes used to describe the world's six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors...
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Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations...
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Fossil fuel (redirect from Oil and Gas)
fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains...
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The Power of Big Oil is a three-part 2022 documentary miniseries produced by WGBH for the investigative documentary television program Frontline, which...
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"Big" industries Big Four (banking) Big Oil Big Soda Big Tech Big Three (automobile manufacturers) Big Three (management consultancies) Big Tobacco Consulting...
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Fossil fuels lobby (redirect from Oil industry lobbyists)
and Europe, however the lobbies are present in many parts of the world. Big Oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Chevron Corporation...
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Boomtown is a podcast about big oil in the Permian Basin hosted by Christian Wallace and produced by Texas Monthly in partnership with Imperative Entertainment...
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influence their users. The concept of Big Tech is similar to how the largest oil companies were called Big Oil following the 1970s energy crisis, and...
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oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil...
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Chevron Corporation (redirect from Standard Oil of California)
predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California...
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Following the 1911 Supreme Court ruling that found Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly, the company was broken up into 39 different entities, divided...
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Petroleum in the United States (redirect from Oil industry in the United States)
United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as "Big Oil", the industry includes exploration,...
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"Big" industries Big Four accounting firms Big Oil Big Tech Big Three (automobile manufacturers) Big Three (management consultancies) Big Tobacco Gogoi,...
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Agreement Jeffrey Wigand Nicotine marketing "Big" Big business Big Media Big Oil Big Pharma Big Soda Big Tech Lee, Ruth (January 2020). "The FCTC and...
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"Big Chocolate" is a business term assigned to multi-national chocolate food producers, akin to the terms "Big Oil," "Big Pharma," and "Big Tobacco".[citation...
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Petroleum industry in Canada (redirect from Canadian Oil Patch)
Canada has the third largest oil reserves in the world and is the world's fourth largest oil producer and fourth largest oil exporter. In 2019 it produced...
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OPEC (redirect from OPEC oil price shock)
the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit. It...
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ExxonMobil (redirect from ExxonMobil Oil)
an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The company, which took its...
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The Big Muddy oil field is an oil field in Converse County, Wyoming, between Casper and Glenrock. After a positive recommendation in 1913 from the U.S...
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characterized in the PBS Frontline three-part documentary "The Power of Big Oil". Lee Raymond was born in Watertown, South Dakota on August 13, 1938. He...
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appear to be a driving force behind much of the policy making. Juhasz, Antonia (15 April 2013). "Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil". CNN. v t e...
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History of ExxonMobil (redirect from Standard Oil of New Jersey)
ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its...
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trillion. Big Four accounting firms Big Oil Big Soda Big Tech Big Three (automobile manufacturers) Big Three (management consultancies) Big Tobacco "Big banks"...
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Malibu Mafia (section Breakup of Big Oil)
Mafia (without Palevsky) met in Malibu to discuss the problems created by Big Oil. They determined to fight for more democratic control of United States...
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Marathon Oil Corporation is an American petroleum company that has existed since 1887. Marathon was founded in Lima, Ohio as the Ohio Oil Company. In 1899...
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DW-TV published "The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil's Campaign of Deception" (2018) after documents confirmed big oil companies have known the burning of fossil...
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BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
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wanted to interfere in Iran's affairs. In a year prior to the Revolution, Big Oil contracts with Iran were expiring; however, the companies never sought...
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Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that John D. Rockefeller's...
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