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The Petromax design has been often copied, today such as by Tower in China, Lea Hin in Indonesia or Prabhat in India. The current company Petromax GmbH was founded in 2010 by the German entrepreneur Jonas Taureck. [2] Through a number of detours, the Petromax trademark for both Europe and North America came in the hands of this company. It not ...
Max Graetz (1861-1936) was the President/CEO of the Ehrich & Graetz firm in Berlin. He was also the main inventor. Between 1900-1916 he invented the Petromax lantern.. Ehrich & Graetz was a big metalworks firm until the Second World War.
Occidental Chemical plant in Kansas. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.
Caribbean Petroleum was incorporated in 1987 through the merger of Caribbean Gulf Refining Corp., Gulf Petroleum S.A., and Compañía Petrolera Chevron, Inc. The Bayamón refinery was originally built in 1955 to supply the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Palo Seco and San Juan Power Plant.
World oil reserves as of 2013. The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.
Pemex (a portmanteau of Petróleos Mexicanos, which translates to Mexican Petroleum in English; Spanish pronunciation:) is the Mexican state-owned petroleum corporation managed and operated by the Mexican government.
The Mexican oil expropriation (Spanish: expropiación petrolera) was the nationalization of all petroleum reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico on March 18, 1938. In accordance with Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917 , President Lázaro Cárdenas declared that all mineral and oil reserves found within Mexico belong to ...
The Orinoco Belt is a territory in the southern strip of the eastern Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela which overlies the world's largest deposits of petroleum.Its local Spanish name is Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco (Orinoco Petroleum Belt).