Business
Petroleum Supplies Drop: The American Petroleum Institute reported that supplies of U.S. heating oil, diesel and jet fuel dropped last week below year-ago levels for the first time this winter, though imports jumped.
Jan. 30, 1991
World & Nation
One of every four petroleum geologists in the United States is unemployed because of the oil bust, a figure that is worse than that recorded in the “cruelest year” of the Depression, according to a geologists’ association.
Oct. 9, 1986
Petroleum Industry Meeting: The American Petroleum Institute, the Washington-based umbrella trade organization of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, continues its two-day annual meeting today at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City.
Nov. 14, 1994
J.T.
March 17, 1998
California
The final stretch of Huntington Beach shoreline fouled by the American Trader oil spill was reopened Wednesday, five weeks after the tanker spewed 394,000 gallons of Alaskan crude into the ocean and caused Orange County’s worst environmental disaster.
March 15, 1990
Petroleum futures continued to climb Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange as the market remained concerned about a possible shortage of heating oil in the Northeast.
Oct. 3, 1985
Atlantic Richfield Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Mike R.
Nov. 13, 1998
A coalition of American Indian and environmental groups sued in federal court to stop the $3.65-billion sale of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Bakersfield, saying the government had failed to determine the impact on endangered species and sacred Native American sites.
Jan. 30, 1998
The American Petroleum Institute reported a 2.2% drop in petroleum use for the first six months of 1985 from the same period a year earlier as industries and electric utilities switched to other fuels.
July 18, 1985
Cuba pledged a supplemental 40,000 tons of oil to Nicaragua in answer to a plea for help in meeting the Central American nation’s petroleum needs through the end of the year, the Sandinista government said.
Sept. 1, 1987