Oil+Industry

Oil Industry D.M. J.L. M.H.
 * __Birth Of Industry-__**

When and where:some of the first oil wells were in a small town in Pennsylvania called Titusville in 1848. who: Edwin Drake was the first to drill a commercial well.
 * innovations: the oil derrick, pump, and the pipe the use to get the oil out.
 * companies:drake oil company is a big oil company in titusville Pennsylvania.
 * obstacles: thought of the failure of oil palm agribusiness. very high prices. and social factors.
 * Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well ever. [[image:oil_rig5.jpg width="239" height="320" align="right"]]Father of the petroleum oil industry.

The effect of all these things were that the oil industry grew rapidly and help the U.S. become one of the wealthiest nations in the world. The founders were made very famous and it was the start of what we now have involving the tools.

John d. Rockefeller monopolized standard oil in Cleveland. in 1865 he bought out the clarks shares and hired henery flager in 1867. standard oil was started in 1876, within 2 years s.o. bought out 100 refineries in the country.In 1879 S.O. became a trust.This led to the Sherman anti trust act of 1890.

__**Labor Relations-**__

Jobs: the only jobs available in this industry were drilling and hard manual labor jobs.
 * workers: got paid very scarce even though Rockefeller was making millions of dollars off of his monopoly in the oil business.
 * labor: viewed very negitivley no one liked the unions. They had kids 6 years of age working where the adults couldnt fit.[[image:boysinfactory.jpg align="right"]]


 * __The Industry Today-__**


 * The u.s. imports over 1,900 barrels of oil from Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria.
 * Some of the major oil companies in America are Diamond offshore, Chevron corp., and, Exxon Mobil corp.
 * The oil industry is not doing well right now, we are looking for new places to drill for oil and the prices are sky high.
 * There has been many predictions saying we will run out of oil in a few decades.
 * over all the oil industry is not in the best of shape that they could be in right now.


 * __IMPORTANT-__** *remember the names, John D. Rockefeller, and Edwin Drake!

__**QuestionsTo Think About-**__ How many barrels of oil do we import a day? How young did you have to be to work in this field? Who is Edwin Drake? What did he do? Who is John D. Rockefeller? What Did he do? What are some major cooperation in this industry now?

References; http://www.sjgs.com/history.html http://www.rigworker.com/industry/history.shtml http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/food-stores/4471697-1.html http://www.little-mountain.com/oilandgasmuseum/Pages/moveover.html http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/history/history_home.htmlhttp:/ http://www.oilheritage.com/history/history.htmhttp:/http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/rockefeller/bio2.htm