It was drilled the first oil well in China in the fourth century or so ago. The oil is burned to vaporize the brine to produce salt. By the tenth century, it was used bamboo pipes to connect the pipes to the sources of salt water.
In the eighth century, it is paving new roads in Baghdad using bitumen, which used to be brought from candidacies oil in this region. In the ninth century, it began oil fields in Baku, Azerbaijan's oil production economical manner for the first time. It was these fields are drilling for oil, has been described by the geographical Masudi in the tenth century, and also Marco Polo in the thirteenth century AD, who described the oil out of these wells, saying they like the hundreds of cargo ships. See also the Islamic civilization.
Oil fields in California in 1938
It starts the modern history of oil in 1853, the discovery of oil distillation process. It was distilled oil and kerosene on him to get to know Ignace Lukasiewicz, a Polish scientist. It was the first rock oil mine is created in the Purbka, near Krosno in southern Poland, and the next year was to build the first refinery (in fact distillation) in Aollazofiz was also through Lukasiewicz. These discoveries have spread quickly in the world, and the Mirzov built the first distillery in Russia in natural oil field in Baku in 1861.
In addition to what has been mentioned, by the year 1910 has been large oil fields in Canada, the East Indies, Iran, Venezuela, Mexico discovery, was their development of industrial exploitation.
However, even in 1955 coal was months fuels in the world, oil and began to take his place afterwards. After the 1973 energy crisis and the 1979 energy crisis, governments focused on media coverage of power supply. Resorted countries such as Germany and France to electrical energy production by nuclear reactors, so that 70% of electricity production in France has become nuclear, Stakeholders. The energy crisis also led to shed light on that oil is a limited resource and can be implemented, at least as a source of economic energy. At present, the most common expectations alarming in terms of the limited stockpile of oil in the world. The future of fuel oil remains controversial. According to the news in the United States the year (2004) that there is the equivalent of 40 years of the use of oil in the ground. Some may argue that the amount of oil that are limited. Others argue that the technology will continue in the production of cheap hydrocarbons and that the earth has a huge estimator of unconventional oil stocks on the oil sands and bitumen fields body, my baby oil and this will allow the continued use of oil a large period of time.
And it started the American oil industry Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in 1859, near Titusville - Pennsylvania. The slow growth of the industry somewhat in the eighteenth century. It was governed by the requirements Ltd kerosene and oil lamps. And it becomes a matter of national interest at the beginning of the twentieth century when the invention of the internal combustion engines leading to increased industry demand for oil in general. Continuous consumption has exhausted the first discoveries in America in Pennsylvania and Ontario, which led to the "oil crisis" in Texas, Oklahoma and California.
Today about 90% of the automotive fuel needs are met by oil. Oil accounts for almost 40% of total energy consumption in the United States, but it constitutes only about 2% in the generation of electricity. And the value of the oil lies in the possibility of being transferred, and the large amount of energy in it, which are the source of most of the vehicles, and as the base of many industrial chemicals, making it one of the most important commodities in the world. The access to oil the cause of many of the military conflicts, including World War II, Iraq and Iran war. And almost 80% of world oil reserves exist in the Middle East, and approximately 62.5% of it in five countries: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran. While America has only 3%.
