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    The California oil and gas industry has been a major economic and cultural component of the US state of California for over a century. Oil production was...
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    development Petroleum politics Oil imperialism theories World oil market chronology from 2003 Oil-storage trade Oil and gas law in the United States Fossil...
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  • Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was...
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    production, refining, transportation, and marketing of oil and natural gas products. The leading crude oil-producing areas in the United States in 2023 were...
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    Big Oil is a name sometimes used to describe the world's six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors...
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    A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells...
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  • American oil company ExxonMobil, with a 69.6% ownership stake in the company. It is a producer of crude oil, diluted bitumen, and natural gas. Imperial Oil is...
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    on oil and gas wells, over one million of those within the U.S. Such treatment is generally necessary to achieve adequate flow rates in shale gas, tight...
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  • throughout Canada and the United States, transporting crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids, and also generates renewable energy. Enbridge's pipeline...
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    Shell plc (redirect from Shell Gas B.V.)
    Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on...
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    837 m3) of oil per day and 29 billion cubic meters of gas per year as of 2013. Azerbaijan is one of the birthplaces of the oil industry. The State Oil Company...
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  • purchased the assets of Prairie Oil and Gas' pipeline and producing companies in the southern United States, and the Rio Grande Oil Company in California. The...
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  • Gas is a 1981 Canadian comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, the plot of which was inspired by the 1979 energy crisis. The film was directed by...
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    Gas, Oil and Water is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Ray and written by Richard Andres. The film stars Charles Ray, Otto Hoffman...
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    of crude oil, and is so viscous that it will not flow unless heated or diluted with lighter hydrocarbons such as light crude oil or natural-gas condensate...
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    petroleum gas Energy transition Gas/oil ratio Liquefied natural gas Natural gas by country Peak gas Power-to-gas Renewable natural gas Strategic natural gas reserve...
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    an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The company, which took its...
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    lesser extent, Canadian oil-sands production has helped increase oil supply since 2008. In the same way, sources of natural gas production are usually...
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  • GasHole is a documentary film about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film was completed in 2008, premiered and released...
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    Diesel fuel (redirect from Gas oil)
    distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel...
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  • both oil and natural gas, has developed a sub-sector in its economy related to the refining of those two sorts of fossil fuels. There are two oil refineries...
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    excess cobalt drier. To prevent wrinkling, the oil is heated to gas-proof it (also known as "boiled"). "Tung oil finish" is often used by paint and varnish...
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    are also used in many oil refineries to remove sour gases from liquid hydrocarbons such as liquified petroleum gas (LPG). Gases containing H2S or both...
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  • Piper Alpha (category Natural gas platforms)
    initially as an oil-only platform, but later converted to add gas production. Piper Alpha exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires...
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    Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth largest...
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  • in a harsh working environment such as oil exploration, extraction and refining, petrochemical industries, gas transmission and chemical processing. Machined-in...
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    According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells...
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  • ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its...
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    Exxon Valdez oil spill List of industrial disasters List of oil spills Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States) Taylor oil spill Timeline...
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    emissions regulations for the oil and gas sector. The Athabaska oil sands, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits oil sand deposits lie under...
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