Oil has used as fuel for cooking and lighting for centuries.
The earliest drilled wells were found in China around 300AD.
Early Inuit cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps.
Marco Polo wrote about oil laden ships of the Caspian Sea.
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