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    Petroleum Center is a populated place and ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. In the 19th century, the name...
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    but some oil industry remains in Pennsylvania. Before petroleum was used as a fuel, oil had many uses. In Pennsylvania, the Native American tribes had...
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    the use of petroleum jelly for protecting and healing skin. Sophisticated oil pits had been built as early as 1415–1450 in Western Pennsylvania. In 1859...
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    Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was...
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    term petroleum refers both to naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is...
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    the "oil from the seeps and using the petroleum as a source of lamp fuel and machinery lubrication." Pennsylvania grade crude oil can be broken down into...
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    discoveries to the more recent. Petroleum became a major industry following the oil discovery at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, in 1859. For much of the 19th...
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    in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. Known for its prominence in the initial exploration and development of the petroleum industry, it is located...
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    Petroleum has been a major industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized...
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    dropped to 2,000. The newspaper was relocated to Petroleum Center in July 1868, becoming the Petroleum Center Daily Record. Both the Chase House and Murphy's...
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    An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline...
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    borough in 1849. It was a slow-growing community until the 1850s, when petroleum was discovered in the region. Oil was known to exist there, but there...
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    indication of petroleum reserves and in whose watershed the first oil well in the United States was drilled. The highest point in Pennsylvania, Mount Davis...
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    The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is an advisory organization specializing in energy economics, climate, and sustainability...
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    Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration...
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    The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation...
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    research centers: Ahvaz Faculty of Petroleum Research Center; Abadan Faculty of Petroleum Research Center; Tehran Faculty of Petroleum Research Center and...
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    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek) is a cartel enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent...
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    Samuel Kier (category Founders of the petroleum industry)
    "Pennsylvania Center for the Book". pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-05. PARKE A. DICKEY (1959). "The First Oil Well". JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM...
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    George Bissell (industrialist) (category Founders of the petroleum industry)
    father of the American oil industry. His company, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil, was the first Petroleum company in America. His businesses included oil companies...
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    Kuwait Digboi Oil Centenary Museum, Digboi, Assam, India Petroleum Museums And Documents Center, Tehran, Iran Erdöl-Erdgas-Museum Twist, Twist, Germany...
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  • The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university...
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    Pennzoil (category 1963 establishments in Pennsylvania)
    of Pennzoil Co. In 1963, South Penn Oil merged with Zapata Petroleum and Stetco Petroleum to form a new "Pennzoil Company", headquartered in Houston and...
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    shipped 10 tank cars, each containing 100 barrels of oil, from Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, to Detroit, Michigan, and proved him wrong. In 1876, Standard...
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    James F. Burke (politician) (category Pennsylvania lawyers)
    of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania. James Burke was born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants. He studied law at the...
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  • Benninghof Run (category Rivers of Venango County, Pennsylvania)
    on the divide between Oil Creek and Cherrytree Run in Venango County, Pennsylvania. The mouth of the creek is located in Oil Creek State Park. "GNIS Detail...
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    Colonies contributed to the American Revolution, Pennsylvania and especially Philadelphia were a center for the early planning and ultimately the formation...
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    Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, formally known as Shell Polymers Monaca, is an ethylene cracker plant located in Potter Township, Pennsylvania,...
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  • Woodside Energy Group Ltd (formerly Woodside Petroleum Ltd) is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company. Woodside is the operator of...
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  • ARCO (redirect from Arco Petroleum Products)
    (/ˈɑːrkoʊ/ AR-koh) is a brand of gasoline stations owned by Marathon Petroleum. BP, which formerly owned the brand, uses it in Northern California, Oregon...
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