упр.1. Growth of petroleum use.

  1. When did the modern petroleum era begin?
  2. Did oil industry expand rapidly after refineries started to make oil products from crude oil?
  3. What was the principal export product of oil companies in early stages of their operation?
  4. What was used for lighting in all areas of the world, before electricity was discovered?
  5. What created a vast new market for gasoline?
  6. Did heating oil begin to replace coal in many energy markets?
  7. Where were the main oil companies principally based?
  8. When did the oil companies from Europe begin to search for oil in the Middle East?
  9. When did the British brought the first oil field in Iran into production?
  10. When did the U.S. become a net oil importer?
  11. What companies were enormously successful in expanding in the rest of the world?
  12. Did the five major U.S. oil companies produce two-thirds of the oil for the world oil market by 1955?
  13. What companies provided the world cheap oil from the Middle East?