Petroleum has been a major industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as...
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Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. Although the US was the world's largest net importer of...
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest...
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The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies...
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Most states do not mandate certain standard gasoline grade octane ratings. In the United States and Canada, octane ratings are in AKI, commonly shown as...
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American Association of Professional Landmen (redirect from American Association of Petroleum Landmen)
industry trade groups in the United States Independent Petroleum Association of America Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States Society of Exploration...
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United Kingdom Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom History of the petroleum industry in the United States Petroleum in the United States Pennsylvania...
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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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oil and gas in the United States provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply. Large oil and gas reservoirs are found under the sea offshore...
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Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in...
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Atlantic Petroleum was an oil company in the Eastern United States headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a direct descendant of the Standard...
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the New England market during peak demand periods, especially in the winter. Energy in the United States Fracking in the United States Petroleum in the...
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list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy...
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The United States is divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, or PADDs. These were created during World War II under the Petroleum...
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New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that John D. Rockefeller's petroleum conglomerate...
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Within the petroleum industry, proven crude oil reserves in the United States were 44.4 billion barrels (7.06×109 m3) of crude oil as of the end of 2021...
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Teapot Dome scandal (category Petroleum in the United States)
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered...
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75 per hour. In a 2007 article, Forbes.com reported that petroleum engineering was the 24th best paying job in the United States. Petroleum engineers divide...
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county equivalents in the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...
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The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with about 17,000 members across...
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Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries)...
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and Alabama, is one of the major petroleum-producing areas of the United States. Oil production from US federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an...
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The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including...
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The United States Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, established in 1927, is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, responsible for analyzing...
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Energy in the United States is obtained from a diverse portfolio of sources, although the majority came from fossil fuels in 2023, as 38% of the nation's...
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List of countries by oil production (redirect from List of oil-producing states)
60% of the world's petroleum. supply and demand In addition to being top 5 in oil production, the United States and Russia are also top 5 in oil exports...
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Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (category Defunct oil companies of the United States)
founded in 1859, which produced petroleum jelly under the brand names Vaseline and Luxor. Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist who started the company...
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Strategic natural gas reserve (category Petroleum in the United States)
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) Strategic petroleum reserve (China) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India) Global strategic petroleum reserves...
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Petroleum is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture. It consists mainly of hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The term...
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The history of the oil shale industry in the United States goes back to the 1850s; it dates back farther as a major enterprise than the petroleum industry...
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