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    Tight oil (also known as shale oil, shale-hosted oil or light tight oil, abbreviated LTO) is light crude oil contained in unconventional petroleum-bearing...
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    Additionally, tight oil is also commonly referred to as "shale oil" due to the oil often being in shale deposits. Due to this nickname, tight oil is often...
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  • Technically recoverable tight oil resources according to the EIA "U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 15 September 2018...
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    lacustrine and terrestrial oil shales. Oil shales differ from oil-bearing shales, shale deposits that contain petroleum (tight oil) that is sometimes produced...
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  • "light tight oil" and World Energy Resources 2013 report by the World Energy Council uses the term "tight oil" for crude oil in oil-bearing shales. Oil shale...
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  • addition to exploration for tight oil and shale gas by international firms there is a small Polish oil and gas industry with some oil and gas production: Polskie...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    oil in low-permeability or tight resource formations in regions like the Bakken, Permian Basin, and Eagle Ford (often referred to as light tight oil)...
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    on spending", has contributed to "tight" oil inventories globally. On 18 January 2022, as the price of Brent crude oil reached its highest since 2014—$88...
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    Unconventional (oil and gas) reservoirs, or unconventional resources (resource plays) are accumulations where oil and gas phases are tightly bound to the...
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    tight oil production in the US, Canada's primary oil export market, has greatly reduced US reliance on imported crude. The potential for Canadian oil...
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    the shale gas and tight oil boom; with production near 7.2 million barrels per day. In 2018, the US became the world's top crude oil producer, and has...
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  • priced in other currencies, including euros. The unconventional tight oil (shale oil) boom in the USA starting in the early 2000s through 2010s (as well...
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    Big Oil is a name sometimes used to describe the world's five, six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known...
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  • companies only involved in refining and marketing. Energy portal List of largest oil and gas companies by revenue List of oilfield service companies...
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  • Look up tight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tight may refer to: Skin-tight garment, a garment that is held to the skin by elastic tension Tights...
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    Utica – Appalachian Basin, US & Canada Unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir Shale gas Tight oil "Tight Gas – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect...
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    Petroleum products are materials derived from crude oil (petroleum) as it is processed in oil refineries. Unlike petrochemicals, which are a collection...
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    further study reduced this amount to 21 million barrels of unconventional tight oil, owing to severe fracturing in the shale rock. 1864: Tar mined from open...
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  • probable and possible reserves. Significant reserves of unconventional tight oil such as contained in the Bazhenov Formation are believed to exist in western...
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    An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is released as...
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    the fractures close. Unconventional (oil and gas) reservoirs are accumulations where oil and gas phases are tightly bound to the rock fabric by strong capillary...
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    and Libya pushed oil above $104. In June 2014 crude oil prices dropped by about a third as unconventional U.S. tight oil (shale oil) production increased...
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    unconventional US and Canadian tight oil (shale oil) production reached critical volumes, geopolitical rivalries among oil-producing nations, falling demand...
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    Al Shaheen Oil Field in Qatar. Drilling at Kola SG-3 began on 24 May 1970 using the Uralmash-4E, a serial drilling rig used for drilling oil wells. The...
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    Arabian-American Oil Company), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company...
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    This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields...
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    Brent Crude (redirect from Brent oil)
    Oklahoma) caused by rapidly increasing oil production from unconventional reservoirs such as Canadian oil sands and tight oil formations such as the Bakken Formation...
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    The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Arabic: شركة بترول أبو ظبي الوطنية), known by its acronym ADNOC, is the state-owned oil company of Abu Dhabi, United...
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    Marathon Oil Corporation was an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. In November 2024, it was acquired by ConocoPhillips and absorbed...
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  • The State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti, ARDNŞ), largely known by its abbreviation...
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