• Struck Oil is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Struck Oil had a population of 151 people. The place...
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    struck oil at 1,180 feet (360 m) shortly after on 26 May 1908. In April 1909, D'Arcy was appointed a director of the newly founded Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
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    Customs House (entry 601527)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014. "Major Oil Spills in Australia: Oceanic...
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    Mount Morgan is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. The town was the administrative centre of the Mount Morgan...
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    north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 179,011 as of the 2021 census, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland and Northern...
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    highly profitable Mount Morgan Mine in Queensland, Australia. D'Arcy assumed exclusive rights to prospect for oil for 60 years in a vast tract of territory...
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  • This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes...
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  • shale deposit in Queensland, Australia. On May 2, 1982, Exxon announced the termination of the Colony Shale Oil Project because of low oil-prices and increased...
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    Moreton Bay (category Defunct prisons in Queensland)
    Australia 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from central Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of Queensland's most important coastal resources. The waters of Moreton...
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    Reef oil spill occurred on 3 April 2010, when the Chinese bulk coal carrier, MV Shen Neng 1 ran aground east of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia...
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    carrying 950 tonnes of oil, ran aground east of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia, causing the 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill and inflicting...
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  • commercial production of oil in Queensland and Australia began at Moonie. The first long-distance oil pipeline in Australia carried the oil 191 miles (307 km)...
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  • bludgeoned Hicks with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) dumbbell. He later stated he struck Hicks twice from behind with the dumbbell as Hicks sat upon a chair. When...
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    coordinates) Bajool is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Bajool had a population...
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    RFA Bishopdale (category Dale-class oilers)
    Brisbane she entered an Allied minefield and struck a mine, but did not sustain any casualties. She again struck a mine in October 1942 in the Bulgari Passage...
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    The history of the Queensland Police Service in Queensland, Australia, commenced in 1864, five years after the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales...
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  • Johnsons Hill is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Johnsons Hill had a population of 7 people. The...
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  • to a jury disproportionally chosen from the accused's ethnic group; see struck jury. de minimis non curat lex The law does not care about the smallest...
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    Joh Bjelke-Petersen (category National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland)
    giving him the right to search for oil over 150,000 square kilometres (58,000 sq mi) near Hughenden in far north Queensland. The next month he incorporated...
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    Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Bouldercombe had a population of 1,117 people. Bouldercombe is in Central Queensland. The...
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    to the vast Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil, while "asphalt" is used for the oil refinery product. Diluted bitumen (diluted with naphtha...
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    Thomas Mitchell (explorer) (category Pre-Separation Queensland)
    Documenting Queensland’ exhibition when it toured to venues around Queensland from February 2009 to April 2010. The exhibition was part of Queensland State...
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    Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989. Born and...
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    based on oil seepages in the Mahakam River delta, Mark Abrahams struck oil in February 1897. This was the discovery of the Sanga Sanga Oil Field, a refinery...
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    heights up to 45 m (148 ft) struck the uninhabited island of Tofua. Two people drowned in Peru when 2 m (6 ft 7 in) waves struck the coast, while another...
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    George Brandis (category Liberal National Party of Queensland members of the Parliament of Australia)
    22 June 1957) is an Australian former politician. He was a Senator for Queensland from 2000 to 2018, representing the Liberal Party, and was a cabinet minister...
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  • "REEF OIL". The Age. Melbourne. 8 September 1972. Retrieved 6 July 2016. "Imaging the basement architecture across the Cork Fault in Queensland using...
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  • hellburners failed to reach the target, but one containing four tons of explosive struck the bridge. It did not explode immediately, which gave time for some Spaniards...
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    able to soar from the 1950s to the 1970s. After the first oil-price shock struck Japan (1973 oil crisis), the country's economy has entered a steady increasing...
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  • Limestone is a rural locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Limestone had "no people or a very low population"...
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