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Petroleum

Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a natural resource that appears as a yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting primarily of hydrocarbons. The term petroleum refers to both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil.

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Composition

Formation

Reservoirs

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Industry

Environmental effects

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International relations

Future production

Hydrocarbons on other worlds

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Petroleum

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Edges424
Triples314
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Petroleum

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related to 19th century · 24
Petroleum → Azerbaijan, Bakinskii Corps, Baku, Bibi-Heybat, Both, Bóbrka, Georg Christian Konrad Hunäus, German, Germany, Ignacy, In, In Wietze, Major Alexeyev, Mining Engineers, Oil, Ottoman Empire, Pechelbronn, Ploiești, Poland, Romania
see also · 21
Petroleum → Barrel, Code, Economic, Energy, Facility, Field, Financial, FrancePetroleum, Measurement, Oil Tankers, Poisoning, Process, Safety Guide, Some, Synthetic, Term, Terminals, Total, Type, Unit
related to 21st century · 19
Petroleum → About, Arab, Athabasca, Canada, Canada's, In, Iraq, Kuwait, Middle East, Orinoco Belt, Petroleum's, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, The, Thus, United Arab Emirates, United States, While
related to OPEC · 19
Petroleum → Anglo-American, Baghdad, In, Iran, Iraq, It, Kuwait, Middle East, OH-pek, OPEC, OPEC's, Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia, September, Seven Sisters, Since, The, The Organization, Venezuela
related to Early · 18
Petroleum → Akkad, Ardericca, Babylon, BCE, By, CE, China, Chinese, Ching, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, In, In Babylon, More, Sargon, Sumerians, The, Zakynthos
related to External links · 18
Petroleum → American Petroleum Institute, August, Crude Oil, Department, Energy EIA, Energy Information AdministrationU, Gas Data TransparencyU, Global Fossil Infrastructure TrackerAPI, Hazardous Substances Databank, Medicine, National Library, Oil, Organisations Data Initiative, Scientific American, Short History, The American Cyclopædia, US, World
related to Price · 16
Petroleum → Bonny Light, Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, Isthmus, Oil, OPEC, OPEC Reference Basket, Organization, Petroleum Exporting Countries, Tapis, The, Urals, WCS, West Texas Intermediate, Western Canadian Select, WTI
related to Tarballs · 15
Petroleum → Bacillus, California, Candida, Chromobacterium, Cladosporium, Gulf, Mexico, Micrococcus, Pseudomonas, Saccharomyces, Santa Barbara Channel, Tarballs, Texas, Their, They
related to Climate · 10
Petroleum → Along, Arctic, As, Atmospheric CO2, CO2, Earth's, Ocean, Pectinoidea, The, This
related to Classification · 9
Petroleum → Additionally, API, Brent, Crude, Each, Light, Oman, The, West Texas Intermediate

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oil production crude hydrocarbons used energy countries opec consumption world products century first fuel kerogen natural global industry also gasoline

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Petroleumis afossil fuel formed over millions of years from anaerobic decay of organic materials from buried prehistoric organisms0.90text
Petroleumis anon-renewable natural resource0.90text
Petroleumis anaturally occurring substance0.90text
fracking.Once extractedinstance ofThere are also unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale which are recovered using methods0.80text
oil is refinedinstance ofThere are also unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale which are recovered using methods0.80text
separatedinstance ofThere are also unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale which are recovered using methods0.80text
most easily by distillationinstance ofThere are also unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale which are recovered using methods0.80text
into numerous products for direct use or use in manufacturinginstance ofThere are also unconventional reserves such as oil sands and oil shale which are recovered using methods0.80text
gasolineinstance ofPetroleum products include fuels0.80text
those of Abu Bakr al-Razi.In the 9th centuryinstance ofwith clear descriptions given in Arabic handbooks0.80text
oil fields were exploited in the area around modern Bakuinstance ofwith clear descriptions given in Arabic handbooks0.80text
Azerbaijaninstance ofwith clear descriptions given in Arabic handbooks0.80text

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