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What is petroleum?
How is Petroleum Formed?
How is Petroleum Found?
Where is Petroleum Found?
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What is petroleum? A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products. Gaseous fuels Liquid fuels Lubricants Paraffin wax Slack wax Sulfur Bulk tar Asphalt Petroleum coke Petrochemicals |
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Where is the largest oil reserve in the world?
Oil reserves 2010 Proved Reserves ?(billion barrels) Africa Libya Nigeria Algeria Angola Asia Kazakhstan Qatar Jiangsu Malaysia Norway Dammam (Eastern Province) Iran Iraq Kuwait United Arab Emirates North Asia (Magadan Oblast) North America Latin Venezuela Acre (Asif Province) |
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