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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I PETROLEUM AND ITS ORIGIN

CHAPTER II THE OIL-FIELDS OF THE WORLD

CHAPTER III HOW PETROLEUM IS PRODUCED

CHAPTER IV THE REFINING OF PETROLEUM

CHAPTER V TRANSPORT BY LAND AND SEA

CHAPTER VI PETROLEUM AS FUEL

CHAPTER VII PETROLEUM AS A LIGHTING AND COOKING AGENT

CHAPTER VIII INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES

CHAPTER IX PETROLEUM IN ENGLAND

CHAPTER X PETROLEUM IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CHAPTER XI PETROLEUM'S PART IN THE GREAT WAR

CHAPTER XII THE SCOTTISH SHALE-OIL INDUSTRY

CHAPTER XIII A FEW NOTABLE PETROLEUM ENTERPRISES

CHAPTER XIV STATISTICAL The World's Output of Petroleum

INDEX

The Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, Ltd.
WALLSEND-ON-TYNE
MARINE ENGINE & BOILER BUILDERS & SHIP REPAIRERS
Manufacturers of Installations for
BURNING LIQUID FUEL

Installation mounted on a Tray
Horse Power of Boilers for which Installations
have been supplied by the Company exceeds
3,000,000 h.p.
Head Office and Works— WALLSEND-ON-TYNE Telegraphic Address— “WALL,” NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE London Office— 30 GREAT ST. HELENS. E C. 3

ANGLO-MEXICAN PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

Exporters and marketers of the products of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., Ltd., including Mexican Fuel Oil and Diesel Oil, Mexphalte, Fluxphalte, Mexican Eagle Bitumen, Lubricants, Gas Oil, Kerosene and Motor Spirit.

EAGLE OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, LIMITED.

Owners of the fleet of modern Oil Tank Steamers engaged in the transport of the above products.

BOWRING PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED.

Marketing Agents in the United Kingdom for Mex Motor Spirit and Kerosene, etc.

Head Offices:
16. FINSBURY CIRCUS.
—LONDON. E.C. 2—

Telephone:
LONDON WALL 1200 (Twenty Lines)

Oil Well Supply Co

Oil and “OILWELL” have grown up together. The oldest and largest manufacturers of well drilling tools.

DRILLING PLANT of every description

PUMPING OUTFITS for every service

PIPE-LINES and STORAGE TANKS

TRADE “OILWELL” MARK

Dashwood House,
LONDON, E.C. 2

ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL COMPANY LIMITED

Importers, Refiners and Distributors

REFINED PETROLEUM OILS

WHITE ROSE (Water White), ROYAL DAYLIGHT and

CROWN DIAMOND—for Household use.

ANGLO’S VAPORISING OIL—for Oil Engines, Agricultural Tractors, etc.

MOTOR SPIRIT

PRATT’S AVIATION—Refined to super-excellence for Aeroplanes and Motor Cars.

PRATT’S PERFECTION—for all classes of Motor Cars.

TAXIBUS—for Commercial Vehicles.

ANGLO’S BENZOL—for Motor Cars and Commercial Vehicles.

ANGLO’S VICTORY SPIRIT—a perfect Petrol-Benzol blend.

FUEL OIL—for Diesel Engines, Furnaces, Ships’ Bunkers, etc.

GAS OIL—for Gas-making.

LUBRICATING OILS AND GREASES, PARAFFIN WAX AND SCALE.

NUJOL—Finest Medicinal Oil.

Head Office:
36 Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster, S.W. 1
Branches and Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

The Largest Makers of
OIL STORAGE TANKS
Tanks of Any Size Supplied and Erected Anywhere.
WHESSOE
FOUNDRY CO., LTD.,

DARLINGTON, ENGLAND
Established 1790]
PETROLEUM REFINERY PLANTS
Telegrams— London Office:— “WHESSOE, LONDON.” 106 CANNON STREET, “WHESSOE, DARLINGTON.” E.C.4

ENGLAND’S FIRST OIL WELL IN DERBYSHIRE

(Drilled under Government authority and brought into production in June, 1919)

Frontispiece

PITMAN’S COMMON COMMODITIES
AND INDUSTRIES

PETROLEUM
BY
ALBERT LIDGETT
EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM TIMES”
LATE EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM REVIEW”

London
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1 Amen Corner, E.C.4
Bath, Melbourne and New York

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& Sons, Ltd., London, Bath,
Melbourne and New York

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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