1869 202,308 1870 204,618 1871 165,129 1872 184,391 1873 474,379 1874 583,751 1875 697,364 1876 1,320,528 1877 1,800,720 1878 2,400,960 1879 2,761,104 1880 3,001,200 1881 3,601,441 1882 4,537,815 1883 6,002,401 1884 10,804,577 1885 13,924,596 1886 18,006,407 1887 18,367,781 1888 23,048,787 1889 24,609,407 1890 28,691,218 1891 34,573,181 1892 35,774,504 1893 40,456,519 1894 36,375,428 1895 46,140,174 1896 47,220,633 1897 54,399,568 1898 61,609,357 1899 65,954,968 1900 75,779,417 1901 85,168,556 1902 80,540,044 1903 75,591,256 1904 78,536,655 1905 54,960,270 1906 58,897,311 1907 61,850,734 1908 62,186,447 1909 65,970,250 1910 70,336,574 1911 66,183,691 1912 68,019,208 1913 62,834,356 1914 67,020,522 1915 68,548,062 1916 72,801,110 1917 69,000,000 INDEX Advantages of liquid fuel, 78 A few notable petroleum enterprises, 148 American petroleum exports, 163 America’s crude oil production, 160 America, the petroleum industry in, 8 Anglo-American Oil Company, Ltd., the, 156 Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., the, 153 Baku-Batoum pipe-line, 24, 69 Baku, boring operations in, 22 ----, the oil-fields of, 19 British Empire, petroleum in, 114 Burmah Oil Company, Ltd., the, 152 ----, the oil fields of, 35 California petroleum industry, 9 Canada, petroleum in, 118 Chemical composition of petroleum, 52 Cooking by means of oil, 93 Distillation of Scottish oil shales, 144 Drilling methods for oil, 41 Dutch Indies, petroleum in the, 23 Egyptian oil-fields, the, 116 Empire oil, 114 England, petroleum in, 104 England’s petroleum trade, 160 Famous oil companies, 148 Fifty years’ American production, 160 ---- ---- Russian production, 164 Galicia’s crude oil production, 162 Galicia, the oil-fields of, 36 Germany’s attempts at oil production, 39 ---- march on Roumania, 30 ---- output of crude oil, 162 Hand-dug wells in Roumania, 29 Heathfield, natural gas in, 109 How petroleum is produced, 41 ---- ---- is refined, 51 ---- the Scottish shales are operated, 136 Internal combustion engines, 95 Japan, petroleum in, 36 Liquid fuel in the Navy, 78 Lord Cowdray’s enterprise in England, 111 ---- ---- ---- Mexico, 16, 151 Maikop oil boom, the, 20 Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., new engines of, 96, 102 Methods of drilling wells, 43 Mexico’s crude oil production, 161 ----- petroleum industry, 12 Ocean oil transport facilities, 71 Oil fuel advantages, 82 Origin of petroleum, 3