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Oil surged on Friday as tensions in the Red Sea escalated following attacks by the US and its allies against Yemeni sites controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
On Tuesday oil alliance OPEC maintained its prior forecast for global oil demand to grow by 2.2 million barrels per day in 2024. In March OPEC+ extended output cuts of 2.2 million per day into the ...
Fehrenbach, T. R. (2000). Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. An enduring theme during and after the oil boom has been a reluctance among Texans to relinquish their identity and a stubbornness in maintaining their cultural heritage in the face of drastic changes to the state brought by the sudden wealth. Despite its growth and industrialization, Texas culture in the mid-20th century ...
The session high was more than $80, highest this year so far. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures climbed 66 cents, or 0.9%, to settle at $72.68, paring gains after touching a 2024 high of ...
April 7, 1926 - A lightning-caused fire, involving a 1 million gallon tank, near San Luis Obispo. [8] September 16, 1928 – George F. Getty Inc. well exploded at the Santa Fe Springs oil fields, igniting a fire that burned for almost two months. [10] July 12, 1951 - A tank farm fire in Wilmington injured 3.
1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1] 1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 Textile workers' strike (1934) 1934 New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 ...
October 10, 2024 at 11:51 PM. HOUSTON (Reuters) -Two people were killed in a chemical release at Pemex's 312,500-barrel-per-day (bpd) Deer Park oil refinery in Texas, the county sheriff said. Up ...
The dark patches in the latter image depict areas left without electricity. In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17, [7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in ...