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  • Thumbnail for Oil spill
    oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil...
    90 KB (9,836 words) - 00:11, 30 October 2024
  • Brontosaurus dinosaur, based on the then-common idea that oil deposits beneath the earth came from the dead bodies of dinosaurs. Sinclair was ranked as one of...
    29 KB (2,954 words) - 20:39, 10 September 2024
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    OPEC (redirect from OPEC oil price shock)
    the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit. It...
    154 KB (14,241 words) - 15:30, 31 October 2024
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    Fossil fuel (redirect from Oil and Gas)
    also the main source of helium. Heavy crude oil, which is much more viscous than conventional crude oil, and oil sands, where bitumen is found mixed with...
    46 KB (6,001 words) - 05:36, 26 October 2024
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    An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical...
    16 KB (1,546 words) - 04:05, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the...
    240 KB (22,876 words) - 18:55, 29 October 2024
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Conventional reserves of petroleum are...
    131 KB (14,550 words) - 12:55, 8 November 2024
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    Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying...
    44 KB (4,739 words) - 01:41, 19 October 2024
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    Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie...
    111 KB (10,130 words) - 01:27, 19 October 2024
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    canola oil (rapeseed oil), corn oil, peanut oil,sesame oil,sunflower oil and other vegetable oils, as well as animal-based oils like butter and lard. Oil can...
    32 KB (4,694 words) - 20:33, 8 November 2024
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    needed] Peak oil Energy development World energy resources "Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2020" (PDF). Retrieved 26 July 2020.[dead link] "The...
    21 KB (159 words) - 23:30, 27 August 2024
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    Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially modified or synthesised. Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured...
    17 KB (1,937 words) - 11:47, 21 April 2024
  • Residual oil is oil found in low concentrations naturally or in exhausted oil fields. Often mixed with water, it cannot be recovered by conventional techniques...
    2 KB (245 words) - 16:49, 5 December 2021
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    Chris (May 25, 2010). "Memorial service honors 11 dead oil rig workers". USA Today. "Coast Guard: Oil rig that exploded has sunk". CNN. April 22, 2010...
    71 KB (7,092 words) - 04:27, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peak oil
    Peak oil is the point when global oil production reaches its maximum rate, after which it will begin to decline irreversibly.[need quotation to verify]...
    103 KB (10,684 words) - 04:11, 22 October 2024
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    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 (6,548 words) - 12:33, 22 August 2024
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    Database for Standard Reference "USDA Nutrition Facts: Fish oil, cod liver"[permanent dead link] USDA Jane Higdon, PhD of the Linus Pauling Institute "Linus...
    10 KB (1,041 words) - 21:35, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil tanker
    An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers:...
    84 KB (8,964 words) - 13:40, 25 August 2024
  • "The Dead Heart" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil. It was first released as a single in Australia in 1986 and in the United Kingdom and the...
    8 KB (510 words) - 08:10, 26 August 2024
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    as-Suʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company or simply Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a majority state-owned petroleum...
    95 KB (8,721 words) - 07:33, 5 November 2024
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