The modern petroleum industry started in 1846 with the discovery of the process of refining kerosene from coal by Nova Scotian Abraham Pineo Gesner. Ignacy Łukasiewicz improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available "rock oil" ("petr-oleum") seeps in 1852 and the first rock oil mine was built in Bóbrka, near Krosno in Galicia in the following year. In 1854, Benjamin Silliman, a science professor at Yale University in New Haven, was the first to fractionate petroleum by distillation. These discoveries rapidly spread around the world. COUNT 5
QSN1 When did the modern petroleum industry start?  ANS1 1846 QSN2 What started the modern petroleum industry ? ANS2 the discovery of the process of refining kerosene from coal QSN3 Who discovered the process of refining kerosene from coal? ANS3 Nova Scotian Abraham Pineo Gesner QSN4 Who improved Gesner's  of refining kerosene from coal? ANS4 Ignacy Łukasiewicz QSN5 Where was the first Rock Oil mine built? ANS5 Bóbrka