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    extract petroleum. After extraction, oil is refined to make gasoline and other products such as tires and refrigerators. Extraction of petroleum can be...
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    Subsidence (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    experienced 9 meters (30 ft) over the course of 34 years of petroleum extraction, resulting in damage of over $100 million to infrastructure in the area...
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    impact of the petroleum industry). Extraction, refining and burning of petroleum fuels reverse the carbon sink and release large quantities of greenhouse...
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    North West Shelf Project (category Oil fields of Australia)
    off the coast of Western Australia. Running since the 1980s, it is Australia's largest such project. It involves the extraction of petroleum (mostly natural...
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  • vessel. Coal bed methane Downstream (petroleum industry) Extraction of petroleum Gas field Hydrocarbon exploration List of oil exploration and production companies...
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  • distribution of refined petroleum products to business, industry, government, and public consumers. Coalbed methane Extraction of petroleum Hydrocarbon...
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  • allowing them to search for commercially feasible deposits for the extraction of petroleum. Each sovereign country distributes licenses in what is typically...
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    Arctic Alaska (category Regions of Alaska)
    was driven first by discoveries of gold and later on by the extraction of petroleum. The ecosystem consists largely of tundra covering mountain ranges...
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    The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil...
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  • selling any resource Petroleum extraction, the process of recovering petroleum from the ground Ancestry or origin of a person Extraction (2015 film), an American...
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    followed by the extraction of petroleum (the second largest producer in the country), agriculture, fruit growing and extraction of minerals, including...
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  • Dresser-Rand (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2024)
    services equipment used in the extraction of petroleum and natural gas. The company was formed in 1986 as a joint venture of Dresser Industries and Ingersoll...
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    Fushun, and Petrosix. Shale oil extraction process decomposes oil shale and converts its kerogen into shale oil—a petroleum-like synthetic crude oil. The...
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    analog-only derived YTF volumes, which are speculative. Energy portal Extraction of petroleum Oil in place Decline curve analysis Uncertainty Probability density...
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    Fixed platform (category Petroleum production)
    A fixed platform is a type of offshore platform used for the extraction of petroleum or gas. These platforms are built on concrete and/or steel legs directly...
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    methane, natural gas is rarely used as a chemical feedstock. The extraction and consumption of natural gas is a major industry. When burned for heat or electricity...
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    A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs...
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    Downstream (petroleum industry) Extraction of petroleum Gas field Hydrocarbon exploration Natural gas condensate Natural-gas processing Petroleum Petroleum extraction...
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  • the Alba, Zafiro, and Ceiba regions. As a result of the recent increase in the extraction of petroleum, the country's economy has grown significantly....
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  • riding lawn mowers, and normally-aspirated marine engines. In the extraction of petroleum (and other heavy-duty fluid handling contexts), a choke valve (or...
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    Ghawar Field (category Oil fields of Saudi Arabia)
    48% of its proven reserves. Approximately 60–65% of all Saudi oil produced between 1948 and 2000, came from Ghawar. Cumulative extraction of petroleum through...
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    Petroleum production in Canada is a major industry which is important to the overall economy of North America. Canada has the third largest oil reserves...
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    waste disposal of petroleum extraction, previously believed to be the byproduct of hydraulic fracturing, beginning with the Texas oil boom of the early 20th...
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    Cuba Petróleo Union (category Oil and gas companies of Cuba)
    The company is involved in the extraction of petroleum deposits as well as the refining and distributing of petroleum products. In conjunction with the...
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    remains, underwater mining and extraction of petroleum. Typically, modern survey vessels are equipped with one or more of the following equipment: Satellite...
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  • Endangered Species Act of 1973 Recovery, extraction of petroleum, the primary, secondary or tertiary recovery of petroleum Forensic recovery, where...
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    concern. Carbon dioxide emissions and partitioning Petroleum extraction disrupts the equilibrium of earth's carbon cycle by transporting sequestered geologic...
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  • (outline) – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Extraction of petroleum – process...
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    by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology...
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    1901 and lasting into the final decades of Dutch rule, there was significant exploration and extraction of Petroleum in this Residency. The Governorate was...
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