Petroleum has been a major industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as...

Petroleum refining in the United States in 2013 produced 18.9 million barrels per day of refined petroleum products, more than any other country. Although...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest...

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies...

Most states do not mandate certain standard gasoline grade octane ratings. In the United States and Canada, octane ratings are in AKI, commonly shown as...

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oil and gas in the United States provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply. Large oil and gas reservoirs are found under the sea offshore...

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was...

Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co. of New...

The United States is divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, or PADDs. These were created during World War II under the Petroleum...

Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to...

list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy...

the New England market during peak demand periods, especially in the winter. Energy in the United States Fracking in the United States Petroleum in the...

hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name petroleum covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that consist...

county equivalents of the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...

Atlantic Petroleum was an oil company in the Eastern United States headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a direct descendant of the Standard...

and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum-producing areas of the United States. Oil production from US federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an...

Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries)...

oil and petroleum products to the United States of America. In 2010, Nigeria exported over one million barrels per day to the United States, representing...

Within the petroleum industry, proven crude oil reserves in the United States were 44.4 billion barrels (7.06×109 m3) of crude oil as of the end of 2021...

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with about 17,000 members across...

Energy in the United States is obtained from a diverse portfolio of sources, although the majority came from fossil fuels in 2021, as 36% of the nation's...

75 per hour. In a 2007 article, Forbes.com reported that petroleum engineering was the 24th best paying job in the United States. Petroleum engineers divide...

produce about 60% of the world's petroleum. In addition to being top 5 in oil production, the United States and Russia are also top 5 in oil exports, natural...

is the pipe’s outside diameter, S is the SMYS, T is its wall thickness, and SF is a [Safety Factor]. History of the petroleum industry in the United States...

Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom produced around 61 million tonnes of petroleum products in 2015, down 19% from 2011. There are six major and...

Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) Strategic petroleum reserve (China) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India) Global strategic petroleum reserves...

Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing countries...

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