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  • Thumbnail for Spent shale
    Spent shale or spent oil shale (also known as retorted shale) is a solid residue from the shale oil extraction process of producing synthetic shale oil...
    4 KB (382 words) - 19:42, 27 June 2023
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    Oil vapors and oil shale gas are then collected and cooled, causing the shale oil to condense. In addition, oil shale processing produces spent oil shale...
    90 KB (8,717 words) - 15:03, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Exxon Valdez oil spill
    The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William...
    63 KB (6,491 words) - 04:45, 23 April 2024
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    oil Mustard oil Palm oil Peanut oil (marketed as "groundnut oil" in the UK and India) Rice bran oil Safflower oil Olive oil Semi-refined sesame oil Semi-refined...
    32 KB (4,714 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil shale
    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 (6,563 words) - 03:36, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saudi Aramco
    Arabian Oil Group or simply Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company...
    95 KB (8,727 words) - 14:05, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indian Oil Corporation
    Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL or IOC), trading as IndianOil, is an Indian multinational oil and gas company under the ownership of the Ministry...
    30 KB (2,292 words) - 05:43, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1973 oil crisis
    Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during...
    132 KB (17,975 words) - 03:27, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Midnight Oil
    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 (10,072 words) - 07:59, 4 June 2024
  • more sticky heavy oil that is difficult to separate. This causes fouling and plugging issues in the caustic tower and downstream spent caustic handling...
    4 KB (485 words) - 15:12, 12 May 2024
  • Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert...
    32 KB (3,399 words) - 16:04, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil-for-Food Programme
    The Oil-for-Food Programme (OIP) was established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) to allow Iraq to sell oil on...
    71 KB (8,614 words) - 14:13, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yellow grease
    oil (UCO), used vegetable oil (UVO), recycled vegetable oil, or waste vegetable oil (WVO), is recovered from businesses and industry that use the oil...
    7 KB (763 words) - 15:47, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom
    industry has spent £58 billion by 2008 (equivalent to £98 billion in 2023) on exploration drilling. In 2008, £1.4 billion was spent finding new oil and gas...
    46 KB (4,891 words) - 20:50, 4 June 2024
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    have spent time in prison. On 14 June 2023, the British Government gave the police additional powers to tackle slow-walking protests by Just Stop Oil who...
    79 KB (6,708 words) - 04:06, 29 May 2024
  • tallolja ('pine oil'). Tall oil is the third largest chemical by-product in a kraft mill after lignin and hemicellulose; the yield of crude tall oil from the...
    6 KB (721 words) - 08:33, 21 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oil shale in Estonia
    of oil shale in Estonia, both of which are sedimentary rocks laid down during the Ordovician geologic period. Graptolitic argillite is the larger oil shale...
    127 KB (11,806 words) - 07:08, 11 June 2024
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    TotalEnergies (redirect from Total oil)
    and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production...
    76 KB (7,776 words) - 17:51, 10 June 2024
  • Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil. Raw vegetable oil, obtained from seeds by...
    11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:01, 18 March 2024
  • inefficiently spent the $900 million bonus the state got in 1969 after leasing out the oil fields. This belief spurred a desire to put some oil revenues out...
    33 KB (3,199 words) - 18:58, 21 March 2024
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