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"supermajor" vertically integrated oil companies. Its fuel stations ... the entire history of the development of oil as a source of energy. Conoco ...

that obtained by the distillation of crude oil is called refined bitumen ... 14, 2008. while asphalt is used for the oil refinery product used to pave roads ...

neft, which were used to describe bubbling oil. Naphtha may also have been ... * Oil refinery * Organic chemistry * Petroleum == Notes == ...

049479-7). For example, this technique is used in oil refineries to separate crude oil into useful substances (or fractions) consisting of different ...

scandium [Sc-46] is used as a tracing agent in oil refineries. ... * The radioactive isotope Sc-46 is used in oil refineries as a tracing ...

it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including ... Chevron originated as the Pacific Coast Oil Company, founded in 1879 ...

called kerogen, which is found in various oil shales around the world. pressure raised temperatures into the oil window, between 60 and 120°C ...

global energy company, a multinational oil company ("oil major" ... where Anglo-Persian was building an oil refinery. It took two years to ...

elements. Vanadium is present in emissions from oil fired power plants and refineries; oil plants also emit some nickel. Coal combustion produces emissions ...

service in industrial settings such as oil refineries, chemical and petrochemical ... of a tank for holding the pressurized air. Oil-lubricated and oil-free compressors ...

a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry and defined the structure ... practices and broken up in the 1911 Standard Oil antitrust settlement. Indicative ...

[[Image:ShellMartinez-refi.jpg|thumb|250px|A Shell oil refinery in ... of petroleum products. The Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez, California ...

weak until the construction of an oil refinery at Sint Nicolaas in the 1920s. ... early 1900s. From the 1920s to the mid-1980s oil refining supported the island ...

:"Crude oil" redirects here. [[Image:Oil well.jpg|thumb|right ... are separated by distillation at an oil refinery to produce gasoline, jet ...

part of Tierra del Fuego into Chile’s only oil field. ... part of Tierra del Fuego into Chile’s only oil field. ...

Gasoline is produced in oil refineries. Material that is separated ... * The oil refinery that makes the gasoline, as not all refineries ...

Costa Rica's main crop, and rising oil prices. As a result his administration ... RECOPE (Costa Rica's nationalized oil refinery business), and Director ...

of oil fields, and helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia. Mendeleev died in 1907 in St. Petersburg, Russia from influenza. The Mendeleev ...

near Hammond, where all three worked in an oil refinery. During this time Bill also performed as a square dancer on Chicago’s WLS National Barn ...

Lutetium (chemical symbol Lu, atomic number 71) is a silvery white, metallic element that usually occurs in association with yttrium. It is the ...

This may be a useful method of removing H2S from oil refining and other industrial processes. * Organometallic complexes of ruthenium (carbene ...

The first oil company came to Bolivia in 1921, when Bolivia was found ... of the barren altiplano. It has an oil refinery and a cement plant. Sucre ...

to the pulp and paper industry and the Irving oil refinery. Hantsport, Nova Scotia, on the Avon River is also home to a pulp and paper mill and is the ...

may rely on the low cost of ethane near Saudi oil fields, and it may not be competitive with methanol carbonylation elsewhere in the world. ...

having a lower viscosity, while vegetable oil is "thick" having ... viscosity of 1.0 x 10-3 Pa∙s and motor oil has a nominal apparent viscosity ...

party balloons. The distillation of crude oil produces fractions useful ... and condensed, usually yielding a layer of oil and a layer of water. ...

such as peanut oil, which was used to power the engines that he exhibited ... in the fractional distillation of crude oil between 200 °C and 350 °C ...

at all concentrations. It was once known as oil of vitriol, a term coined ... ore processing, fertilizer manufacturing, oil refining, wastewater processing ...

Despite the knowledge of oil in Venezuela for centuries, the first ... By the end of 1917, refining began at the San Lorenzo refinery, and ...

and the ensuing turmoil. While its proven oil reserves of 112 billion barrels ... that the government of Rashid Ali might cut oil supplies to Western nations ...

center because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. Alexandria ... are salt and tanning industries, an oil refinery, a cement works, and limestone ...

and soap. There is also a large oil refinery. Exports include coffee, cacao, timber, bananas, pineapples, and palm and fish products. ...

by tourism, petroleum trans-shipment and oil refinement on Curaçao, as ... was dramatically altered. An extensive oil refinery installation was built ...

1665), French. The Plague of Ashdod, 1630. Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm. Musée ... includes various industry including an oil refinery, which is one of only ...

When oil discoveries initiated an economic boom in the early twentieth ... The first major oil well in Texas was Spindletop, south of Beaumont ...

War II era largely because of its enormous oil revenues. Successive Kuwaiti ... [[Image:Refinery1.jpg|right|thumb|400px|An oil refinery in Mina-Al ...

Castle). Originally constructed for foreign oil workers, most land was reclaimed ... in 1926, as well as the construction of an oil refinery. ...

Antwerp's docklands, with five oil refineries, are home to a massive concentration of petrochemical industries, second only to the cluster ...

vegetables, citrus fruit, copra, coconut oil, and essential oils such as ... sector and is planning to construct an oil refinery on the eastern part of ...

Chechnya is criss-crossed by gas and oil pipelines that locals cut ... paratroopers took the Grozny petroleum refinery, to prevent its destruction ...

Cape Town has a petroleum refinery, as well as chemical, fertilizer ... fired power station and two gas turbines. Oil and natural gas was discovered ...

1.6 million m³ (10 million barrels) of oil deposits, and the southeast ... and other chemical plants, an oil refinery, power station, and a ...

sulfur dioxide are emitted from burning of coal and oil. ... * Oil refining, and industrial activity in general. * Chemicals, dust ...

An oil refinery located near Kingston converts crude petroleum obtained from Venezuela into gasoline and other products. A government-owned railway ...

nationalism. The city gained a sugar refinery, a brewery, a foundry, and ... companies. The retail chain Mercator, the oil company Petrol d.d. and the ...

and is the home of Canada's largest oil refinery. An terminal is being constructed in the city and in addition, there are major oil fired and ...

generously from their high salaries in the oil industry. ... positions in Jordan, including the oil refinery near Az Zarq. Jordan considered ...

While its proven oil reserves of 112 billion barrels puts Iraq second ... 250px|An Iraqi girl living next to Al Daura Oil Refinery.]] ...

acid rain occurring due to the Mathura oil refinery. As of 1983 the Taj Mahal was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today it is a major ...

in urban areas, from vehicle emissions, refinery operations, and industrial ... of carpets and furniture. There is an oil refinery nearby. ...

Kochi has an oil refinery—the Kochi Refineries Limited (KRL) at Ambalamugal. Central Government establishments like the Coconut Development ...

Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, a oil refinery, has headquarter offices located in Mangalore. Since the 1980s, Karnataka has emerged as the ...

include chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear-waste disposal activity, incinerators, PVC factories ...

depends on outside sources for all of its oil and gas and most of its modern ... companies in the country, such as the oil refinery Okta, the baking company ...

century, followed by wood mills, an oil refinery, a brewery, and electric power plants. During the era of communism Montenegro experienced a rapid ...

zone was created, containing refineries, oil refinery and steel production (owned by Hellenic Steel Co.). The zone attracted also a series of different ...