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Indiana Gas Field Natural gas miners and their drill, near Kokomo, Indiana, c. 1885. The Indiana gas boom was a period of active drilling and production of natural gas in the Trenton Gas Field, in the US state of Indiana and the adjacent northwest part of Ohio. The boom began in the early 1880s and lasted into the early 20th century.
Oil and gas production from this field led the Standard Oil Company to establish refinery operations in Indiana. The firm's production and refinery interests led, in turn, to Standard's Indiana interests being grouped together after the 1911 breakup of the firm due to antitrust action, leading to the formation of the Standard Oil Company of ...
The history of gasoline started around the invention of internal combustion engines suitable for use in transportation applications. The so-called Otto engines were developed in Germany during the last quarter of the 19th century. The fuel for these early engines was a relatively volatile hydrocarbon obtained from coal gas.
The report recorded shifting trends in fossil fuel use in different regions. In Europe, for example, the fossil fuel share of energy fell below 70% for the first time since the industrial revolution.
Fuel is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on fuel. It was established in 1922 and published by Butterworths Scientific Publications as Fuel in Science and Practice, obtaining its current name in 1948. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Bill Nimmo (University of Sheffield).
Indiana’s average price is lower than that of two of its neighboring states and higher than that of the other two. Illinois drivers are paying $3.268 a gallon, while those in Michigan are being ...
The Indiana Business Research Center [1] (IBRC), established in 1925, is a research unit in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. [2] The IBRC provides and interprets economic information for the state’s business, government and nonprofit organizations, as well as users of such information throughout the nation.
The Indiana Magazine of History is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the Indiana University Bloomington Department of History. [1] Established primarily as a venue for historical documents of interest, particularly on Indiana's territorial period and early statehood, today it publishes a range of scholarly articles, reviews, roundtables and interviews on the history and ...