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    A petroleum seep is a place where natural liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the Earth's atmosphere and surface, normally under low pressure or flow...
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    follows: oil/gas seeps gas seeps: methane seeps gas hydrate seeps brine seeps are formed in brine pools pockmarks mud volcanoes Cold seeps occur over fissures...
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    The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square...
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    peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the...
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  • underground aquifer. Other types of seeps are: Cold seep Petroleum seep Saline seep Tar seep Seep may also refer to: Seep (TV series), a 2018 Pakistani television...
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  • Kerosene (category Petroleum products)
    to improve on Gesner's kerosene process, but using oil from a local petroleum seep. Many people knew of his work, but paid little attention to it. On the...
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    coal at low heat, in creating a fluid resembling petroleum, which when treated in the same way as the seep oil gave similar products. Young found that by...
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    A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs...
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  • The abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis proposes that most of earth's petroleum and natural gas deposits were formed inorganically, commonly known as...
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    because the tar pits were used as a local rubbish dump. Petroleum seep Asphalt volcano Coal Oil Point seep field "Tar Pits Park". Carpinteria.com. Retrieved...
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    springs located within it. Water portal Fountain List of spa towns Petroleum seep Soakage Spring line settlement Spring supply Water cycle Well "Te Waikoropupū...
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    reservoir formation many million years ago.[why?] A natural surface Petroleum seep above the Burgan field was known to humankind since neolithic time,...
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    Asphalt volcano (category Petroleum geology)
    structures are thought to form above geologic faults through which petroleum seeps from deeper in the Earth's crust. Asphalt volcanoes are vents on the...
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  • Petroleum geology is the study of the origins, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It refers to the specific set...
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    cannel coal at a low heat, a fluid resembling petroleum, which when treated in the same way as the seep oil gave similar products. Young found that by...
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    Salt Creek Oil Field (category Naval Petroleum Reserve)
    region and accounted for 20 percent of the total production in Wyoming. Petroleum seeps in the area were known before 1880, but oil strikes near Lander led...
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  • For the Dutch shortwave radio station see PCJJ Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) is a petroleum company owned by the government of Jamaica. The PCJ...
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    the only soft tissue known is from a specimen that was preserved in a petroleum seep in Starunia, Poland. Frozen remains of woolly mammoths have been found...
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    Tar pit (redirect from Tar seep)
    the presence of petroleum, which is created when decayed organic matter is subjected to pressure underground. If this crude oil seeps upward via fractures...
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  • the surface of the Earth. Oil seeps can be found near a fault zone, where the movement of Earth's crust can expose petroleum source rock, and thus the crude...
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    Petroleum is a fossil fuel that can be drawn from beneath the Earth's surface. Reservoirs of petroleum are formed through the mixture of plants, algae...
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    using petroleum geology. Visible surface features such as oil seeps, natural gas seeps, pockmarks (underwater craters caused by escaping gas) provide...
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    Bitumen (redirect from Asphalt (petroleum))
    or petroleum. Natural deposits of bitumen include lakes such as the Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago and Lake Bermudez in Venezuela. Natural seeps occur...
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    discovered an increasing number of oil seeps—oil seeping to the surface. In Northern California, there were oil seeps in Humboldt, Colusa, Santa Clara, and...
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  • the arch and a Lower Cretaceous unconformity on the east. Claims on petroleum seeps in the Cape Simpson area were first made in 1915 by a group consisting...
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    National League for Democracy (NLD). Myanmar portal Battle of Yenangyaung Petroleum seep Marilyn V Longmuir, "Oil in Burma: The Extraction of 'Earth-Oil' to...
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    visits by others such as orcas. After a French engineer investigated petroleum seeps on the islands in 1912, a 75-year concession was granted to the Red...
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    1988–2015. Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company...
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    from the end of the Nara period, occurring in naturally-occurring petroleum seeps. In 1874, the Nakano clan, the local village headman, applied to the...
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    Pennsylvania oil rush (category History of the petroleum industry in the United States)
    Pennsylvania. Before petroleum was used as a fuel, oil had many uses. In Pennsylvania, the Native American tribes had been using oil from seeps for several centuries...
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