When iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, the company began delivering oil.
(c) You deliver oil to a group of farmers who share a common tank.
A major oil pipeline delivering oil to Europe also passes through here.
Over a period of weeks or months, he notes, it would pay producers to deliver oil as long as they could cover their operating costs.
Since 1990, Moscow has refused to deliver oil at what were called "friendship" rates, far below the market value.
Ratzenberger's father drove a Mack truck to deliver oil for three decades.
When he delivers oil, he hears about the cost of home heating all the time, and not just from customers.
It is designed to deliver oil at rates of up to 3.5 million barrels a day.
Supply routes that deliver gas and oil are exposed to danger.
Those who sold these contracts must either buy them back, at the current higher prices, or fulfill them by delivering oil.