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Petroleum (/pɛˈtroʊliəm/), also
known as
crude oil and oil, is a
naturally occurring, yellowish-black
liquid found in
geological formations beneath the...
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Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an
American petroleum refining, marketing, and
transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The
company was...
- The
petroleum industry, also
known as the oil
industry or the oil patch,
includes the
global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting...
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refinery or
petroleum refinery is an
industrial process plant where crude oil is
transformed and
refined into
useful products such as
petroleum naphtha,...
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Petroleum engineering is a
field of
engineering concerned with the
activities related to the
production of Hydrocarbons,
which can be
either crude oil...
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Petroleum ether is the
petroleum fraction consisting of
aliphatic hydrocarbons and
boiling in the
range 35–60 °C, and
commonly used as a
laboratory solvent...
- The
following is a list of
notable companies in the
petroleum industry that are
engaged in
petroleum exploration and production. The list is in alphabetical...
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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...
- BP plc (official
styling BP p.l.c.,
formerly The
British Petroleum Company plc and BP
Amoco plc) is a
British multinational oil and gas
company headquartered...
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Petroleum jelly, petrolatum,
white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS
number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid
mixture of
hydrocarbons (with...
