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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 5 September 1929, Page 2

According to a report received from the Atlantic Union Oil Company Ltd., 4ugust 28, 1929, will mark the 70tli anniversary of the commencement of the modern petrolem industry. It was on August 28, 1859, that Colonel E. L. Drake “struck oil” in Venango County. Pennsylvania. In those early days oil wells were sought with the object of obtaining kerosene or burning oils; other products contained in the crude oil, such as naphthas or motor fuels and lubricating oils, being largely run to waste. To-day little is wasted—the 70 years of progress having found a use for those products that were onco wasted. In the 70 years since Colonel Drake “struck oil” the oil industry has groyrn to bo one of the greatest industries in the, world. Petroleum has been known throughout the ages. Fire worshippers used the eternal fires of the Asplioror. Peninsula in their ritual, which wore fed by crude oil issuing from the fissures of the rocks.

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