Dallas' proximity to the discovery put it immediately at the center of the nation's petroleum market.

The January 5, 2012 edition provides an overview of major events that affected petroleum markets in 2011.

Indications of apparently strong demand for gasoline had helped to support the petroleum markets last month.

In the 1970s Aker entered the petroleum market, producing oil platforms.

The city itself is a big part of central Canada's petroleum market.

The agency report, received in Cyprus, said the agreement should be "a basic factor to save the situation and restore stability to the petroleum markets."

"Liwa" concentrated on the regional, Middle East petroleum market, however, which limited the company's international exposure.

A few years later, it expanded its operations by creating a niche in the wholesale petroleum market.

The rush to Pennsylvania created violent swings in the petroleum market for the first decade of the oil boom.

But the prevailing view was that the petroleum market remained unstable because of the volatile situation in the gulf.