earth oil
111Athabasca Oil Sands — The Athabasca Oil Sands (also known as the Athabasca Tar Sands) are large deposits of bitumen, or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada. These oil sands consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (a semi solid form of… …
112Anglo-Persian Oil Company — The Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. It was the first company to extract petroleum from the Middle East. In 1935 APOC was renamed the Anglo Iranian Oil… …
113List of oil refineries — This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil and Gas Journal[1] also publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country by country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of …
114List of oil field acronyms — Contents 1 # 2 A 3 B 4 C …
115History of the Venezuelan oil industry — Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporting country in the world with the largest reserves of heavy crude oil. Pre discovery years 1907In the years before the Spanish conquistadors, the indigenous people of Venezuela had already encountered… …
116heavy oil and tar sand — Introduction crude oils (crude oil) below 20° API gravity are usually considered to be heavy. The lighter conventional crudes are often waterflooded to enhance recovery. The injection of water into the reservoir helps to maintain reservoir… …
117Microbial enhanced oil recovery — (MEOR) is a biological based technology consisting in manipulating function or structure, or both, of microbial environments existing in oil reservoirs. The ultimate aim of MEOR is to improve the recovery of oil entrapped in porous media while… …
118Exxon Valdez oil spill — The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. It is considered one of the most devastating man made environmental disasters ever to occur at sea. As significant as the Exxon Valdez spill was, it ranks… …
119Are We Changing Planet Earth? — Infobox nature documentary bgcolour = show name = Are We Changing Planet Earth? caption = Programme title card picture format = 16:9 audio format = Stereo runtime = 59 minutes creator = developer = director = Nicolas Brown producer = Jeremy… …
120Green Earth Ministries — The Green Earth Ministries, founded by Bruce Shoop and his wife Brenda and is a chapter of the THC Ministry church following the Religion of Jesus Church, is a religion which considers cannabis to be a sacrament. Members base their practices on… …
