This ushered in a new era when China used oil exports to obtain the hard currency to buy the equipment and technology needed to modernize its economy.
Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
They collect used frying oil take it home and convert it into automobile fuel.
For decades, Iran had used its oil wealth to import goods, instead of manufacturing them domestically.
Lone Star Technologies, a Dallas producer of steel pipe used in oil wells, fits the bill.
Chef Tyler Florence's hunting-lodge-ish restaurant Wayfare Tavern hands over its used cooking oil to a biodiesel company.
The products it sells are used by oil- and gas-drilling companies, pipeline companies, refineries and other energy-sector firms.
If palm oil is used as a vegetable oil then it will have to be stated on the label.
Plastic barrels, fishing gear and nets, and one full barrel of used diesel oil were also among the items collected.
In fact, German engineer Rudolph Diesel used peanut oil to demonstrate his invention at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
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But those barrels of used cooking oil in the back alley have ignited a grease war in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Blue H, a wind-power company based in Britain, has developed a floating wind turbine based on designs first used by oil-drilling platforms.
As background, hydraulic fracturing is a multi-step process commonly used in oil and natural gas drilling to bolster eventual production from wells.
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Rising worldwide demand for energy at prices that sustain investment has resulted in higher sales of engines used in oil drilling and petroleum applications.
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Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
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One innovative company, Grease Lightning, based in New York City, has been purchasing used cooking oil from local restaurants to convert into biodiesel fuel since 2011.
Chavez has used this oil wealth to finance massive spending and subsidy programs over his last 14 years in power, but budgetary pressure will continue to increase.
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The line chefs chopping up eggplant, give him a nod as he walks over to another blue barrel, only this one is half full with used cooking oil.
In theory, the Ceyhan line could also be used for oil from the other side of the Caspian, where Chevron and other oil companies have won huge contracts.
The government has used its oil revenues to markedly increase real wages in the public sector but a large part is being consumed by the highest inflation in Latin America.
In time, says Simmons, he envisions turbines spinning on hundreds of those gulf platforms, which would be outfitted with gear to make ammonia at sea and send it to shore through pipelines now used for oil and gas.
Still, I liked him most when he was back in his clothes, with his fine parting restored (he used hair oil and a steel comb), when he was great and good once more, settling me in an armchair, deftly drawing the cork from a Pinot Grigio, directing my reading.
Private equity backed 2Co wants to build a new coal plant above the Hatfield coal mine and pump the gas to North Sea oil fields where it can be used for enhanced oil recovery.
Diversa has used this technique to develop a valuable enzyme used for cleaning oil wells, and Maxygen has developed enzymes used in industrial production and for the manufacture of other drugs.
Today, the automaker announced that it will repurpose 100 miles of oil-soaked plastic boom used during the Gulf oil spill into plastic parts for the Chevy Volt.
Democrats are vowing this fund will be tightly crafted and used only for oil-spill payments.
He notes that impressionists used pigments in oil, which was a new medium at the time.
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