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One hundred and fifty years ago, on August 27, 1859 Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, giving rise to the modern oil industry. What was sought as a replacement for depleting stocks of whale oil used as a fuel for lamps, gradually turned into the world
On the other side of the balance sheet, global economic dependence on oil and its products has bred considerable trouble. Oil become a backdrop behind great powers
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