sentences:  The production of these oils and solid paraffin wax from coal formed the subject of his patent dated 17 October 1850.In 1850 Young & Meldrum and Edward William Binney entered into partnership under the title of E.W.Binney & Co. at Bathgate in West Lothian and E. Meldrum & Co. at Glasgow; their works at Bathgate were completed in 1851 and became the first truly commercial oil-works and oil refinery in the world, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal to manufacture naphtha and lubricating oils; paraffin for fuel use and solid paraffin were not sold till 1856.