Search results

Results 1 – 20 of 26,593
Advanced search

Search in namespaces:

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Components of crude oil
    )
    some countries, so-called "oil states", gaining significant economic and international power because of their control of oil production. Petroleum exploitation...
    133 KB (15,004 words) - 06:32, 11 April 2024
  • sub-lists of their current parent companies. Oilfield service companies may produce, maintain, and repair equipment used in oil extraction and oil transportation...
    4 KB (301 words) - 17:41, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil well
    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...
    38 KB (5,168 words) - 14:00, 14 April 2024
  • Oil patch
    )
    known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and...
    47 KB (4,710 words) - 10:41, 25 April 2024
  • Iran's oil)
    of crude oil on the international market would alter Iran's oil revenues by US$1 billion. In 2012, Iran, which exported around 1.5 million barrels of...
    55 KB (5,811 words) - 01:39, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gulf Oil
    Gulf Oil was one of the Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the...
    55 KB (6,757 words) - 08:27, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil shale
    Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons...
    66 KB (6,563 words) - 03:36, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1979 oil crisis
    A drop in oil production in the wake of the Iranian Revolution led to an energy crisis in 1979. Although the global oil supply only decreased by approximately...
    25 KB (2,615 words) - 10:41, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil sands
    Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands are either loose sands or partially...
    142 KB (18,032 words) - 21:31, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of oil fields
    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 of all...
    24 KB (866 words) - 13:30, 9 March 2024
  • Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly viscous oil that cannot easily flow from production wells under normal reservoir conditions. It is...
    20 KB (2,286 words) - 14:53, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Price of oil
    The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and...
    109 KB (11,855 words) - 21:23, 26 April 2024
  • State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan)
    The State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti, ARDNŞ), largely known by its abbreviation...
    60 KB (5,670 words) - 13:19, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1973 oil crisis
    October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries...
    130 KB (17,769 words) - 15:00, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for International Energy Agency
    conservation, and establish international technical collaboration. Since its founding, the IEA has also coordinated use of the oil reserves that its members...
    58 KB (5,613 words) - 23:58, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marathon Oil
    Country Boulevard in Houston, Texas. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, it also runs international gas operations focused on Equatorial Guinea, offshore...
    15 KB (1,194 words) - 19:18, 6 April 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500
)