The stockholders of seventy-seven oil companies gave control of their stock to nine trustees of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

But,once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered,or capped, to stop the flow of oil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

But the oil is processed and exported -- at least for now -- from Port Sudan in the north.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

Or you can steam them in a small amount of water or stir fry them in a small amount of oil.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Smelling the oil she has in the kitchen now is like breathing in an entire field of lavender flowers.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Workers have been placing long lengths of containment booms around the oil as winds and waves push it toward shore.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Ida Tarbell's investigations into Standard Oil were partly responsible for later legal action by the federal government against the company.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The easiest way to get the rest of the oil out is to place heavy rocks on the crushed material.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

"So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

At the end of March, President Obama called for the United States to expand its offshore oil and gas exploration.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

This week,government scientists raised their estimate of the leak to between thirty-five and sixty thousand barrels of oil each day.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, are created in part by burning oil and coal for transportation and electricity.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.23