term petroleum refers to both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is...

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil...

An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline...

Petroleum jelly, petrolatum (/ˌpɛtrəˈleɪtəm/), white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of...

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration...

became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum. BP acquired majority control of Standard Oil of Ohio in 1978. Formerly...

Petroleum Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used internationally for legislation relating to petroleum. The Petroleum Act 1971 The Petroleum...

Brent Crude is the trading classification for the types of petroleum—sweet crude oil and light crude oil—first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the...

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was...

refer to: Place names Petroleum, Indiana Petroleum, Kentucky Petroleum County, Montana Petroleum, West Virginia Arts "Petroleum", a song by Swedish band...

Petroleum coke, abbreviated coke, pet coke or petcoke, is a final carbon-rich solid material that derives from oil refining, and is one type of the group...

In petroleum geology, a trap is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons...

petroleum spirit or petroleum spirits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Petroleum spirit(s) may refer to: Petrol (or Gasoline), a clear petroleum-derived...

ministry of petroleum or ministry of oil is a kind of government ministry often found in countries that are producers and exporters of petroleum. Examples...

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian public sector oil and gas company, headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's second-largest government-owned...

Petroleum University or University of Petroleum may refer to: China University of Petroleum, Dongying, Shandong Federal University of Petroleum Resource...

A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations. Such reservoirs...

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian public sector undertaking in petroleum and natural gas industry, headquartered in Mumbai. It...

American brand of petroleum jelly-based products owned by British multinational company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection...

1988–2015. Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company...

Petroleum products are materials derived from crude oil (petroleum) as it is processed in oil refineries. Unlike petrochemicals, which are a collection...

The Petroleum Trail is an international tourist trail which runs from Poland to Ukraine linking places associated with the petroleum industry of the 19th...

Petroleum geochemistry is a branch of geochemistry (the application of chemical concepts to understand geological systems) which deals specifically with...

Established in 1984, the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) was created to advance Abu Dhabi's natural petroleum wealth for the development of the...

Petroleum engineering is a field of engineering concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil...

Petroleum Geoscience is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London and the European Association of Geoscientists...

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It was organized in Delaware and headquartered in two skyscrapers in...

Petroleum ether is the petroleum fraction consisting of aliphatic hydrocarbons and boiling in the range 35–60 °C, and commonly used as a laboratory solvent...

Petroleum transport is the transportation of petroleum and derivatives such as gasoline (petrol). Petroleum products are transported via rail cars, trucks...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest...

Petroleum is a fossil fuel that can be drawn from beneath the Earth's surface. Reservoirs of petroleum are formed through the mixture of plants, algae...

Petroleum naphtha is an intermediate hydrocarbon liquid stream derived from the refining of crude oil with CAS-no 64742-48-9. It is most usually desulfurized...

through a pipeline. Pipelines exist for the transport of crude and refined petroleum, fuels—such as oil, natural gas and biofuels—and other fluids including...

Engen (officially Engen Petroleum) is a South African oil company, focusing on the downstream refined petroleum products market and related businesses...

A petroleum seep or oil spring is a place where natural liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the Earth's atmosphere and surface, normally under low...

Petroleum microbiology is a branch of microbiology that deals with the study of microorganisms that can metabolize or alter crude or refined petroleum...

Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases...

Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries (also referred to as oil refineries)...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek) is an intergovernmental cartel enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing...

The abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis proposes that most of Earth's petroleum and natural gas deposits were formed inorganically, commonly known as...

Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd. Trinidad Petroleum Holdings also owns Guaracara Refining Company Ltd, which operates the nation's only petroleum refinery...

midstream, and downstream. The downstream sector is the refining of petroleum crude oil and the processing and purifying of raw natural gas, as well...

Petroleum politics have been an increasingly important aspect of diplomacy since the rise of the petroleum industry in the Middle East in the early 20th...

Crescent Petroleum is the first and largest private upstream oil and gas company in the Middle East. Founded in 1971, Crescent Petroleum is headquartered...

Strategic Petroleum Reserve may refer to: Strategic Petroleum Reserve (China) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United...

Dome Petroleum Limited was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1950 and 1988. The company was founded as a subsidiary of Dome...

Greymouth Petroleum is an energy company in New Zealand, established in 2002. It owns gas and oil fields, principally in onshore Taranaki, including Kowhai...

Addax Petroleum was established in 1994 and since August 2009 has been a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, one of the largest oil and gas producers in...

The petroleum industry in Guyana is rapidly expanding. The country has emerged as one of the newest petroleum-producing nations in the world, achieving...

Whiting Petroleum Corporation was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration primarily in the Bakken Formation and Three Forks Shale. It was organized...

Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) is a Pakistani state-owned oil and gas company headquartered in Karachi. It is one of the largest exploration and production...

Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) is a joint venture between the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and the government of Brunei, primarily responsible for the exploration...

Petroleum geology is the study of the origins, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It refers to the specific set...

Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. (PSE: PNX) is the first independent oil company to be listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange after the Oil Deregulation...

Petroleum Club may refer to: Petroleum Club of Houston, United States Calgary Petroleum Club, Canada This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration...

Dubai Petroleum is a government-owned oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the United Arab Emirates, under the jurisdiction of...

Atlantic Petroleum was an oil company in the Eastern United States headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a direct descendant of the Standard...

The following is a list of notable companies in the petroleum industry that are engaged in petroleum exploration and production. The list is in alphabetical...

Gull Petroleum is a petroleum distributor in Australia. Founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1976, it was later owned by Puma Energy and now owned by...

The petroleum industry in Syria forms a major part of the economy of Syria. According to the International Monetary Fund, before the Syrian civil war...

Petroleum is an unincorporated community in Nottingham Township, Wells County, Indiana, United States. Petroleum has a population of 196. Petroleum was...

is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL)...

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Arabic: مؤسسة البترول الكويتية; KPC) is Kuwait's national state-owned oil company, headquartered in Kuwait City. The activities...

Petroleum benzine is a hydrocarbon-based solvent mixture that is classified by its physical properties (e.g. boiling point, vapor pressure) rather than...

was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. As of July 2026,[update] it had over US$2.2 trillion in assets...

United Petroleum is an Australian petrol retailer and importer. It was established in 1993 and, as of October 2020[update], has over 450 petrol stations...

Navitas Petroleum is a publicly traded oil and natural gas exploration and production partnership focused on North America. Navitas is listed on the Tel...

Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917, that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural...

Petroleum Building may refer to: Petroleum Building (Tulsa), a building in Tulsa, Oklahoma Petroleum Building (Midland), a building in Midland, Texas This...

petroleum industry along with its outputs and applications started in the 1800s, although the local use of oil goes back many centuries. Petroleum's status...

Pearl Petroleum is a five-company consortium consisting of two Middle Eastern oil and gas companies, Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum, which together are...

Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. Although the U.S. was the world's largest net importer...

Australia is a minor petroleum producer and importer, with a number of petroleum companies involved in upstream and downstream operations. Western Australia...

established as Drohobych Petroleum Technical College in 1945, transforming into Petroleum and Gas College in 2012. Drohobych Petroleum and Gas College was...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is a state-owned oil company in Nigeria. Still a fully owned government company, it was transformed...

Saga Petroleum ASA was a Norwegian upstream petroleum company established in 1972 that was acquired by Norsk Hydro in 1999. In October 2007 it was made...

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Group, is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Chaoyang District, Beijing. The SASAC administers...

PanCanadian Petroleum Limited was a Canadian independent petroleum company that operated between 1971 and 2002. The company was created through the merger...

Petroleum Records (formerly Metropol Music ) is a Norwegian record label. The label's roster includes Thomas Dybdahl, Sondre Justad, Aurora, Kvelertak...

Spirit Petroleum is an American petroleum brand created in 2002 by the Petroleum Marketers Oil Corporation, LLC. The corporation, which is majority-owned...

corporation in the petroleum industry, which is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation. The company...

The United States is the largest producer of petroleum in the world. Petroleum has been a major industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania...

Supertest Petroleum Limited was a Canadian petroleum company that operated from 1923 to 1973. Its head office was in London, Ontario. It marketed itself...

The China University of Petroleum (East China) is a national public university located in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry...

subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizer...

Hunt Petroleum Corporation was an oil and gas exploration and production company formed in 1950 that was originally owned and controlled by members of...

holistic reforms in the petroleum industry, ease of doing business, encouragement of local content in the industry birthed the Petroleum Industry Bill, introduced...

HASS or HASS Petroleum is a privately owned oil marketing company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Hass Petroleum was founded in 1997 by two brothers,...

Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence...

Dana Petroleum Limited is an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Its activities are focused on the North Sea,...

Teknologi Petronas (UTP). The Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM), its key division and a governing body for the petroleum resources development since Petronas'...

Petroleum production in Canada is a major industry which is important to the overall economy of North America. Canada has the third largest oil reserves...

Aloha Petroleum, Ltd. is one of the largest gasoline marketers and convenience store operators in Hawaii, with a history that dates back to the early...

Citgo Petroleum Corporation, or Citgo (stylized as CITGO), is a U.S.-based downstream petroleum company formed in 1983 as a spinoff of the retail, marketing...

production of petroleum, refining, trading and petroleum product distribution. The company was founded in 1969 as the Singapore Petroleum & Chemical Co...

International Petroleum Company, Ltd. (IPC) was a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, based in Toronto, Canada. It began operating in Peru in 1914...

The Petroleum Institute (PI) (formerly (evidentially) The Petroleum Institute University and Research Center) is a multidisciplinary research center of...

and holds shares in Zenith Bank and FBN Holdings. Otedola founded Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd and owns several other ventures spanning shipping, real estate...

Meghna Petroleum PLC is a Bangladesh petroleum company owned by Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, a state owned corporation. Mir Saifullah-Al-Khaled is...

The Somalia Petroleum Corporation (SPC), also known as the Somalia Petroleum Company, is a hydrocarbon exploration and production firm based in Mogadishu...

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) is a ministry of the Government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution...

A petroleum geologist is an earth scientist who works in the field of petroleum geology, which involves all aspects of the discovery and production of...

ShaMaran Petroleum Ltd. is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company is listed on the Euronext Growth Oslo in Norway and the Nasdaq...

Hascol Petroleum Limited is a Pakistani oil marketing company based in Karachi. It is majority-owned by Vitol and holds the distribution rights of German...

Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (also known as PETROS) is a state-owned oil and gas exploration firm established and wholly owned by the Government of Sarawak...

Global strategic petroleum reserves (GSPR) refer to crude oil inventories (or stockpiles) held by the government of a particular country, as well as private...

/bɪˈtjuːmɪn, baɪ-/ bih-TEW-min, by-) is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its exact composition, it can be a sticky, black liquid...

petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels...

Regal Petroleum plc is a petroleum company based in London with assets in Romania, Ukraine, Greece, and Egypt. It was founded by Frank Timiş in November...

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company that operates in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It is...

China's two state-owned oil companies, Sinopec and the China National Petroleum Corporation, as well as Saudi Aramco, had greater revenues in 2022 than...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry. It claims to represent nearly 600 corporations...

Wissol Petroleum is a daughter brand of Wissol Group, one of the largest retailer business groups in Georgia. This Georgian oil company operates the widest...

QatarEnergy (Arabic: قطر للطاقة) is the state-owned national petroleum and natural gas company of Qatar. The company operates all oil and gas related...

Vickers Petroleum Company was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers, Sr. In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process...

Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd. is a subsidiary of China's Geo-Jade Petroleum, and the dominant oil operator in Albania. The company operates, among others...

The Petroleum Museum (Malay: Muzium Petroleum) is a museum in Canada Hill, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. The area where the museum is located was the first...

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the...

Lago Petroleum Corporation was an oil production company established by Americans in 1923 that exploited the oilfields in Lake Maracaibo. It was acquired...

The petroleum industry in China has evolved from small-scale exploration during the Qing dynasty to one of the largest in the world since the founding...

TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its...

Al Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Company, also known as Al Maha, is a petroleum company based in Oman. The company is named for the Arabian Oryx (al...

The Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) is the national oil and gas company of South Sudan. It was incorporated in 2009 by the government of Sudan and...

Sky Petroleum v VIP Petroleum [1974] 1 WLR 576 is an English contract law case, concerning the possibility of claiming specific performance of a promise...

alongside other fossil fuels like coal and oil (petroleum). Natural gas is often a byproduct of petroleum production, where it can either be vented without...

Boyett Petroleum is a family-owned, independent fuel supplier, distributor, and retailer based in Modesto, California. The company sells gas under the...

of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils. The name 'mineral oil'...

not refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and airplane fuel. In 2024, Saudi Arabia was the largest exporter of petroleum, followed by Russia...

In November 2019, ADNOC received approval from the emirate's Supreme Petroleum Council to list its flagship Murban crude oil as a futures contract on...

Petróleo ("Petroleum") is a 1936 Mexican film directed by Fernando de Fuentes. Petroleum at IMDb v t e...

Crown Central Petroleum, commonly known as Crown, is an American oil company that has flourished in Baltimore since the early 20th century until its recent...

In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons...

Compton Petroleum Corporation is a Canadian petroleum company based in Calgary, Alberta. It is a public company actively engaged in the exploration, development...

The Petroleum Division, part of Pakistan's Ministry of Energy, is tasked with ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of oil and gas to meet the country's...

an American industrialist. He made his fortunes as the chair of Davis Petroleum and at one time owned 20th Century Fox, the Pebble Beach Corporation,...

Desire Petroleum plc was an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Malvern, England. It owned offshore exploration and production licences in...

torpedo is an explosive device used, especially in the early days of the petroleum industry, to fracture the surrounding rock at the bottom of an oil well...

Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (also known as The Commission), a new entity formed as a result of the enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act...

Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft, also known as German-American Petroleum Company, was a German petroleum company that was a subsidiary of...

Mobil Oil Corporation, is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil, formerly known as Exxon, which took its...

The Korea Petroleum Association (KPA) is a South Korean oil, petroleum and lubricant association. It is headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu...

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, commonly known as CEYPETCO (CPC), is a Sri Lankan oil and gas company. Established in 1962 and wholly owned by the Government...

The Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company (PAT) was an oil company founded in 1916 by the American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny after he had made...

Asyut Petroleum Sports Club (Arabic: نادي بترول أسيوط الرياضي), commonly referred to as Petrol Asyout, is an Egyptian football club based in Asyut, Egypt...

Uruguay is a petroleum importing country, and most of the industry is controlled by the state-owned company ANCAP. ANCAP operates both the only refinery...

Petroleum production engineering is a subset of petroleum engineering. Petroleum production engineers design and select subsurface equipment to produce...

A petroleum technician is a professional that has three specializations: petroleum equipment installer, petroleum equipment tester, and petroleum service...

1959 as the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association (APEA) and until September 2023 was known as the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration...

Paramount Petroleum Corporation was headquartered in Paramount, Los Angeles County, California. It operated a refinery at that location, and was the largest...

Argus (formerly known as Petroleum Argus Ltd) is an independent publisher which provides news, price information, data, analytics consultancy services...

Attock Petroleum Limited (Urdu pronunciation: [a.ˈʈʌk pə.ˈtroʊ.li.əm] ah-TUCK) is a Pakistani oil marketing company headquartered in Rawalpindi. It is...

Gate Petroleum is a privately held diversified corporation headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the 11th largest in Florida in 2022.[citation needed]...

The General Petroleum Building, also known as the Mobil Oil Building and the Pegasus Apartments, is a highrise building in the Modern architecture style...

annum El-Nasr Refinery (El-Nasr Petroleum Company), Suez, 131,000 bbl/d (20,800 m3/d) Suez Petroleum Refinery (Suez Petroleum Processing Company), El Suez...

Petrol engines can often be adapted to also run on fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas and ethanol blends (such as E10 and E85). They may be designed to...

ISO 8691:1994 Petroleum products — Low levels of vanadium in liquid fuels — Determination by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry after ashing is...

Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij or Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (lit. 'Batavian Oil Company', colloquially known as BPM) was the Dutch East Indies...

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries...

that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is released as associated petroleum gas along with the oil...

The Petroleum News is a weekly newspaper based in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to April 6, 2003, Petroleum News was known as Petroleum News Alaska. The name...

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ পেট্রোলিয়াম কর্পোরেশন) (BPC) is a government agency in Bangladesh to import, distribute and market...

officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, and the national oil company of Saudi Arabia...

create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum, and brine will flow more freely. When the hydraulic pressure is removed...

The gel point of petroleum products is the temperature at which the liquids gel so they no longer flow by gravity or can be pumped through fuel lines...

The petroleum industry in Sudan began in 1979, when the first commercial flow in the country occurred. Prior to the discovery of oil, roughly 80 percent...

The petroleum industry in Western Australia is the largest contributor to Australia's petroleum exports. Western Australia's North West Shelf (NWS) is...

businessman. He worked as a petroleum engineer before founding oil-equipment fabricator Kencana Petroleum. Kencana Petroleum later merged with SapuraCrest...

called coking. A similar product called petroleum coke, or pet coke, is obtained from crude petroleum in petroleum refineries. Coke may also be formed naturally...

The Magnolia Petroleum Company was an early twentieth-century petroleum company in Texas. The company was established in 1911, being later acquired by...

National Petroleum Council may refer to: National Petroleum Council (US) National Petroleum Council (Brazil) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

The petroleum industry in Azerbaijan produced about 33 million tonnes of oil and 35 billion cubic meters of gas in 2022. Azerbaijan is one of the birthplaces...

Salym Petroleum Development, established in 1996, (Salym Petroleum Development, Salym Petroleum, SPD) is a joint venture between Gazprom Neft and Shell...

Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL), formerly known as Madras Refineries Limited (MRL), is a subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation Limited which...

Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) is a Kenyan oil refinery based in Mombasa. Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited is currently managed by the government...

The Norwegian Petroleum Museum (Norsk Oljemuseum) is a museum documenting Norwegian oil and gas activities, located in Stavanger, Norway. It was designed...

South Atlantic Petroleum, also known as SAPETRO, is a Nigerian oil and gas exploration and production company which has a share in the development of...

Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) is a term used for any mixture of hydrocarbons that are found in crude oil. There are several hundred of these compounds...

Cnergyico Pk Limited, formerly Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited and Bosicor Pakistan Limited, is a Pakistani petroleum refinery based in Karachi. It is a...

The petroleum and gas industry of Ghana is regulated by the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and administered by the state-owned...

Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT) is a direct tax collected in the United Kingdom. It was introduced under the Oil Taxation Act 1975, soon after Harold Wilson's...

China Resources Petroleum Company Limited (Chinese: 華潤石化), was a subsidiary of China Resources (CRC), and was a major petroleum product company in China...

Southwest Petroleum University (Chinese: 石油大学) is a station on Line 3 of the Chengdu Metro in China. It serves the nearby Southwest Petroleum University...

The petroleum industry in Mexico makes Mexico the eleventh largest producer of oil in the world and the thirteenth largest in terms of net exports. Mexico...

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional organization. SPE provides a worldwide forum for oil and natural gas...

Marathon Petroleum (January 31, 2023). "Marathon Petroleum Corp. Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Results" (PDF). MarathonPetroleum.com. p. 7...

Petroleum licensing or exploration license is the act of giving licenses (geographical areas at land or sea) to a company or a joint venture allowing...

Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI), commonly known as Q8 (pronounced Cue-Eight, which sounds like "Kuwait" in a British accent), is the international...

The Creole Petroleum Corporation was an American oil company. It was formed in 1920 to produce fields on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Gulf Oil began field...

The Petroleum Commission is a Ghanaian state agency under the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum responsible for the regulation, management and coordination...

Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) is located in Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria. It was established in 1973 by the federal government of Nigeria as a prerequisite...

Kerui Petroleum is a Chinese oil services and equipment company. It provides equipment and EPC services for oil drilling and production and natural gas...

HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A., formerly known as Hellenic Petroleum S.A. (Greek: Ελληνικά Πετρέλαια Ανώνυμη Εταιρεία, romanized: Elliniká Petrélaia Anónymi...

Tethys Petroleum Limited is an oil and gas company active in the field of exploration and production. The company is based in central Asia, mainly in...

Qatar Petroleum District is a set of ten towers office buildings on the Majlis Al Taawon street, West Bay Doha, Qatar. It is the headquarters for QatarEnergy...

Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group is a Chinese conglomerate mainly engaged in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of petroleum and natural...

divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, or PADDs. These were created during World War II under the Petroleum Administration for...

Marketing Ghana PLC, formerly known as Mobil Oil Ghana Limited is a Ghanaian petroleum company. They are listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange...

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (Universitatea Petrol-Gaze, UPG) is a public university in Ploiești, Romania. Founded in 1948 under the name of Institute...

Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Limited is a dormant company owned by Shell. Around 1898, the company became responsible for the ships of Shell Transport...

The Arend Petroleum Company Ltd. was originally established in 1927 as "Compania Mexicana de Petrol el Aquila" on the island of Aruba. However, it underwent...

Iran is considered an energy superpower, largely due to its petroleum industry. In 2004, Iran produced 5.1 percent of the world's total crude oil (3.9...

Woodside Energy Group Ltd (formerly Woodside Petroleum Ltd) is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company. Woodside is the operator of...

enactments relating to petroleum and petroleum-spirit. It specified and updated the conditions for the granting of licenses for keeping petroleum spirit; the labelling...

composed of organic compounds derived from the fractional distillation of petroleum and later chemically enhanced with gasoline additives. It is a high-volume...

Petroleum (also Rogers) is an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 699 feet (213 m). Its post office...

Petroleum Institute of Pakistan (PIP), (ادارۂ برائے تنظیمِ صنعتِ پیٹرولیم ، پاکستان) is based in Islamabad, Pakistan. The PIP was established in 1963...

David Ross Locke (also known by his pseudonym Petroleum V. Nasby) (September 20, 1833 – February 15, 1888) was an American journalist and early political...

Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU; 西南石油大学) is a provincial public university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Sichuan...

as paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in aviation as well as households. Its name...

Petroleum Helicopters International, Inc. (PHI - Now PHI Aviation, LLC), is an American commercial helicopter operator, founded in 1949, by Robert L....

The Indeni Petroleum Refinery is an oil refinery in Zambia's industrial city of Ndola. The refinery is located in Ndola, Ndola District, Copperbelt Province...

Preem is among the largest Swedish exporters. Approximately half of all petroleum products consumed in Sweden come from Preem's refineries. While sales...

from the country's vast pipeline network and its dependence on local petroleum markets ensures the refineries are crucial for providing energy that fuels...

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC; Chinese: 中国石油天然气集团公司; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shíyóu Tiānránqì Jítuán Gōngsī) is a major national oil and gas...

country's domestic production level, although the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel increases oil prices. Before oil, whale...

Dragon Petroleum is a Welsh fuel company with headquarters at Dyserth in Clwyd. It is a subsidiary of NWF Fuels, itself a trading Division of the NWF...

Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is a state agency responsible for the exploration, licensing, and distribution of petroleum-related activities...

The petroleum industry in Colombia is an important contributor to the country's economy. Colombia became an oil exporter in the mid-1980s and has remained...

by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology...

Geo-Jade Petroleum is a Chinese oil and gas exploration and production company with oilfields in Kazakhstan, Albania, and Iraq. The company has made two...

In geology, a petroleum play, or simply a play, is a group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological...

United States vs. Imperial Petroleum is a federal criminal case in which Imperial Petroleum and others were accused of selling Renewable Identification...

The history of the petroleum industry in France covers the exploitation of petroleum in its relation to the economy of France. In 1917, France effectively...

of Petroleum (Beijing). Born and raised in Zhengzhou, Henan, Shan graduated from Huadong Petroleum Institute (renamed the University of Petroleum in 1988...

TotalEnergies. Those were converted to the Total brand. In 2014, Sol Petroleum purchased Esso operations in The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands...

Petroleum County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 496, making it the least populous county in Montana...

The Ghana Petroleum Fund is a sovereign wealth fund of the Ghanaian government and comprises the Ghana Stabilization Fund (GSF) and the Ghana Heritage...

Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules...

The Petroleum Warfare Department (PWD) was a government department established in Britain in 1940 in response to the invasion crisis during World War...

The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) is an integrated petroleum company that is the national oil company of Bahrain. It was founded in 1929 and discovered...

of the petroleum industry in Norway is the most significant part of Norway's economic history, and significant across that of Europe's petroleum industry...

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:...

used widely for illumination. Chemically similar to the more refined, petroleum-derived kerosene, it consists mainly of several hydrocarbons of the alkane...

Ampol Limited is an Australian petroleum company headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. Ampol is the largest transport energy distributor and retailer...

The Calgary Petroleum Club is a private social club in Calgary, Alberta. The club was founded in 1948 as a gentlemen's club catered to executives in the...

(/ˈɑːrkoʊ/ AR-koh) is a brand of gasoline stations owned by Marathon Petroleum. BP, which formerly owned the brand, uses it in California, Oregon and...

from natural gas in processing plants). The table also excludes refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel, as well as petrochemicals...

Russia's petroleum (oil) industry is one of the largest in the world.[citation needed] Russia has the largest reserves and was the largest exporter of...

that Zijilker's endeavour and others similar to it catalyzed the modern petroleum industry in Southeast Asia and connected the region's resources to the...

Bangladesh Petroleum Institute (BPI) is an autonomous national research institute that carries out research on hydrocarbon and provide technical assistance...

The International Petroleum Exposition (IPE) was a specialized trade fair held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at varying intervals from 1923 to 1979. Its main purposes...

Within the petroleum industry, proven crude oil reserves in the United States were 44.4 billion barrels (7.06×109 m3) of crude oil in 2021, excluding...

The petroleum fiscal regime of a country is a set of laws, regulations and agreements which governs the economical benefits derived from petroleum exploration...

Nigeria, spanning multiple business sectors such as the agro-allied, petroleum, telecommunications, power, real estate, and banking industries. Hosa...

The Supreme Petroleum Council (Arabic: المجلس الأعلى للبترول) was the highest governing body of oil, gas and similar industry-related activities in the...

business was spun off to form OneSteel in 2000. In the 1950s, BHP began petroleum exploration, which became an increasing focus following oil and natural...

supply and consumption SPE (2018). Petroleum Resource Management System (revised June 2018) (1.01 ed.). Society of Petroleum Engineers. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-61399-660-7...

For the Dutch shortwave radio station see PCJJ Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) was a petroleum company owned by the government of Jamaica. The PCJ...

The first independent Ministry of Petroleum was established in March 1973, to manage the political role of petroleum resources before the war of 1973....

Petroleum Center is a populated place and ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. In the 19th century, the name...

The Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC, Arabic: الشركة السورية للنفط) is a state-owned oil exploration and production company. The company was established...

tanker or truck), storage, and wholesale marketing of crude or refined petroleum products. Pipelines and other transport systems can be used to move crude...

approximately 159 liters, or 35 imperial gallons. According to the American Petroleum Institute (API), a standard barrel of oil is the amount of oil that would...

Ministry of Petroleum is a ministry of the Government of South Sudan. The incumbent minister is Puot Kang Chol., the ministry of petroleum contributes...

The environmental impact of the petroleum industry is extensive and expansive due to petroleum having many uses. Crude oil and natural gas are primary...

Petroleum Air Services (PAS) (Arabic: خدمات البترول الجوية Khidmāt al-Bitrūl al-Gawwīyyah) is an airline based in Cairo, Egypt. It operates helicopter...

The Department of Mines and Petroleum was a department of the Government of Western Australia until it was superseded by the Department of Mines, Industry...

The Petroleum Building (formerly known as the Hogan Building) is a highrise in downtown Midland, TX. The building was built in 1928 and consists of 12...

Ontario. It operates department stores, gas stations (Canadian Tire Petroleum), and financial services (Canadian Tire Bank). The company also owns and...

The Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) is a department formed by the Government of India under the Department for Promotion of Industry...

The petroleum industry in Lithuania since 2001 is experiencing a sustained fall in output, and is further characterized as investment-restricted. According...

The Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources is a part of the Federal Ministries of Nigeria that directs petroleum resources and its activities in Nigeria...

Nationalencyklopedin: AB Nynäs Petroleum, 2009 'Nynas Annual report 2025' Hedengren, Uriel: 75 years old – looking back, page 40-63. AB Nynäs Petroleum, 2003. Nynas Annual...

Kigumba Petroleum Institute, also referred to as Uganda Petroleum Institute or as Uganda Petroleum Institute, Kigumba (UPIK), is a government-owned, national...

American Petroleum Transport Corporation (American Petroleum Tpt) was an oil shipping company founded in New York City in 1936. Daniel K. Ludwig was President...

The Petroleum Road or Tapline Road (Hebrew: כביש הנפט, Kvish HaNeft) is a 47 km (29 mi) long, privately owned north-south asphalt road in the Golan Heights...

The IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) also known as French Institute of Petroleum (in French: Institut Français du Pétrole, IFP) is a public research organisation...

Watad Petroleum was a company that imported petroleum from Turkey to rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria during the Syrian civil war. It was founded...

to: Refined edible oil, Edible oil refining result Petroleum products derived from crude oil (petroleum) as it is processed in oil refineries Refined resource...

Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) is an oil company in Puerto Rico which owned an oil refinery in Bayamón having a capacity of 48 thousand barrels...

The petroleum fly, Helaeomyia petrolei (synonym Diasemocera petrolei), is a species of fly from California, USA. The larvae feed on dead insects and other...

(formerly known as Sapura Energy Berhad from 2017 to 2025 and SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad from 2012 to 2017) is a Malaysian integrated oil and gas services...

Siberian petroleum basin (also known as the West Siberian hydrocarbon province or Western Siberian oil basin) is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural...

The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA), formerly the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is an independent regulatory authority responsible...

subsidiary of Brunei National Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad, also known as PetroleumBRUNEI. Following a restructure of PetroleumBRUNEI and its subsidiaries...

The Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG; Arabic: حرس المنشآت النفطية) is a Libyan oil company and militia led by Idris Bukhamada. Established in October 2012...

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation) of processed petroleum products. It is thus responsible for the maintenance of (and upgrades to) petroleum and petroleum product...

ownership of the Government of India and administration of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It was founded on 14 August 1956 by the Government of...

He was the retired group executive director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. As of January 2020, he is the President of Energy and Engineering...

Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), formerly Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU), is a private university in Gandhinagar, the capital...

country and an important natural gas and petroleum producer in Asia. It is home to one of the world's oldest petroleum industries, with its first crude oil...

The Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund (Portuguese: Fundo petrolífero de Timor-Leste) is a sovereign wealth fund into which the surplus wealth produced by East...

unnecessary due to the low cost of petrol. Worldwide increases in the price of petroleum caused many automakers to release hybrids in the late 2000s; they are...

Thomas Bard drilled into the north side. The Philadelphia & California Petroleum Company, drilled wells in the Ojai region between 1865 and 1867; one became...

Pegula (born March 27, 1951) is an American billionaire businessman and petroleum engineer. He is the owner of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey...

Shandong Molong Petroleum Machinery Company Limited or Shandong Molong, is a private petroleum machinery manufacturer in Shouguang, Shandong, China. It...

Lundin Energy (former Lundin Petroleum) was an independent oil and gas exploration and production company formed from Lundin Oil in 2001 and based in...

Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Petroleum Resources]] (DPR) before enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act in 2021 which created two new agencies...

Inch and Little Big Inch, collectively known as the Inch pipelines, are petroleum pipelines extending from Texas to New Jersey, built between 1942 and 1944...

The Mexican Petroleum Institute (in Spanish: Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, IMP) is a public research organization dedicated to developing technical...

National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is a statutory body set up by the Government of Ghana to regulate, oversee and monitor the Ghanaian petroleum industry...

of Mercuria Energy Group. It quickly absorbed the larger Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPNI), a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange...

petroleum system of the Safaniya reservoir is the Mesozoic Petroleum System. The Mesozoic Petroleum System can be divided into two smaller petroleum systems...

It is responsible for developing and implementing policies concerning petroleum and related products. The Ministry of Energy is working to diversify the...

Associated petroleum gas (APG), or associated gas, is a form of natural gas which is found with deposits of petroleum, either dissolved in the oil or as...

founder and chief executive officer of Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited, an indigenous petroleum products marketing company based in Nigeria. Akpani...

The Petroleum Act 1998 (c. 17) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which consolidated arrangements for the licensing, operation and abandonment...

crude oil is a type of petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less than 0.5% sulfur as sweet. Petroleum containing higher levels...

rigs, intervention vessel. Coal bed methane Downstream (petroleum industry) Extraction of petroleum Gas field Hydrocarbon exploration List of oil exploration...

The Council Of Petroleum Accountants Societies (COPAS) is a non-profit professional organization established in 1961, and concerned with accounting guidelines...

Northeast Petroleum University (simplified Chinese: 东北石油大学; traditional Chinese: 東北石油大學; pinyin: Dōngběi Shíyóu Dàxué) is a national key institution of...

original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2013. "Petroleum Industry in Japan 2013" (PDF). Petroleum Association of Japan. September 2013. p. 71. Archived...

adhesives, rubber and other areas where tackiness is required. Generally, the petroleum resins are not used independently, but have to be used together with other...

regulation of the petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf. Based in Stavanger, its mission is to ensure that the petroleum resources are allocated...

industry extends back to the period of the British Raj, at a time when petroleum first became a primary global energy source. 1866 : Oil discovery at Nahorpung...

Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is a non-profit trade association that represents companies that account for the bulk of petroleum exploration...

The Petroleum Papers is a 2022 non-fiction book by journalist Geoff Dembicki on climate change and the fossil fuel industry. The book documents that specific...

average of about 20.25 million barrels of petroleum per day, or a total of about 7.39 billion barrels of petroleum. "Crude Oil Consumption by Country (2026)"...

Peak oil, or peak extraction of oil, is the point when global petroleum production reaches its maximum rate, after which it will begin to decline irreversibly...

2699707°N 78.0800053°E / 30.2699707; 78.0800053 The Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), established in 1960, is one of the 37 constituent laboratories...

for Energy and Green Transition (formerly the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum) is the government ministry responsible for ensuring a sustainable, reliable...

The United States has had considerable involvement in the Venezuelan petroleum industry, beginning in the 1920s near the discovery of oil in the country...

gas. It was formed by the merger of Hess Oil and Chemical and Amerada Petroleum in 1968. Leon Hess was CEO from the early 1960s until 1995, after which...

September 8, 1933) was an English-born American chemist who discovered petroleum jelly—which he marketed as Vaseline—and founder of the Chesebrough Manufacturing...

eventually becoming one of the Big Oil companies that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. In 1985, Socal merged with the...

The Institute of Petroleum (IP) was a UK-based professional organisation founded in 1913 as the Institute of Petroleum Technologists. It changed its name...

The China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co., Ltd. (CPP) is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation and the primary builder of pipelines...

The National Petroleum Exchange was a resource exchange in New York City founded in 1882. In 1883 the National Petroleum Exchange and the New York Mining...

Mari Energies Limited, formerly Mari Petroleum Company Limited, and commonly known as Mari (Urdu pronunciation: [ˈmaː.ri] MAH-ree), is a Pakistani energy...

The New-York Petroleum Exchange and Stock Board was a resource and stock exchange in New York City. Founded as the New-York Petroleum Exchange, in 1884...

Marine and Petroleum Geology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering marine and petroleum geology. It was established in 1984 and is published...

Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi. He described the process of distilling crude oil/petroleum into kerosene, as well as other hydrocarbon compounds, in his Kitab al-Asrar...

758 million barrels of oil equivalent (4.134×1010 GJ), of which 46% was petroleum, 34% was natural gas, 14% was natural gas liquids and 6% was bitumen....

The Petroleum University of Technology (Persian: دانشگاه صنعت نفت) is an Iranian public university funded by the Ministry of Petroleum particularly by...

The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) (Arabic: شركة البترول الوطنية الكويتية) is the national oil refining company of Kuwait. Established in October...

Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916. It is presently a subsidiary of HF Sinclair...

natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran. NIOC was established in 1951 and restructured under The Consortium...

the Government of India and administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It is a public sector undertaking which is registered...

The Petroleum Building is a 50 m (164 ft) 10-floor building at 420 South Boulder in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was built in 1921, and is a steel and reinforced...

Algerian Petroleum Institute (Arabic: المعهد الجزائري للبترول, French: Institut Algérien du Pétrole), is a national graduate institute of petroleum engineering...

China Petroleum Corporation may refer to: CPC Corporation, Taiwan, formerly known as "Chinese Petroleum Corporation", operating from Taiwan as a state-owned...

Energidepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry responsible for energy, including petroleum and natural gas production in the North Sea. It is led by Minister of...

The CPC Corporation is a state-owned petroleum, natural gas, and gasoline company in Taiwan and is the core of the Taiwanese petrochemicals industry....

based on their chemical composition. Corrosion inhibitors are used in the petroleum industry in several steps, including drilling, production, transportation...

Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (Russian: Уфимский Государственный Нефтяной Технический Университет, УГНТУ, Bashkir: Өфө дәүләт нефть техник...

led to the founding of the Bahrain Petroleum Company. Gulf Oil was also a minor shareholder in the Iraq Petroleum Company until 1934. In 1934, the Kuwait...

Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore...

Cooper Rand (December 31, 1831 – July 12, 1885) was an innovator in the petroleum industry and the 11th mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rand was born in...

The Petroleum Club of Houston (PCOH) is a private social club located on the 35th floor in the Total Plaza in Downtown Houston. As of November 2014 the...

70°N 157°W / 70°N 157°W / 70; -157 The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) is an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the United...

The Petroleum Executive was a UK government body established during World War I to regulate the production, import, storage, allocation, distribution...

Turkish Petroleum Corporation (Turkish: Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı, TPAO) has been established in order to perform hydrocarbon exploration, drilling...

– which provide services to the petroleum exploration and production industry but do not typically produce petroleum. In the list, notable subsidiary...

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (MOP) (Arabic: وزارة الطاقة والنفط), previously known as the Ministry of Oil and Gas (Arabic: وزارة النفط والغاز);...

The Volga-Ural Petroleum and Gas Province, also known as the Volga-Ural Petroleum and Gas Basin, is a geographical region in southern Russia. Stretching...

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) (Arabic: الهيئة المصرية العامة للبترول) is a national oil company of Egypt. EGPC's business includes...

The Petroleum (Transfer of Licences) Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 27) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which empowered local authorities...

Corporation Public Company Limited (BCP), previously known as Bangchak Petroleum, is a petroleum and energy conglomerate in Thailand. It was founded as a state-owned...

BP Canada was a Canadian petroleum company and subsidiary of British Petroleum that existed between 1955 and 1992. The name refers to a group of companies...

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies...

Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Vietnamese: Tập đoàn Xăng dầu Việt Nam), is an industry group in Vietnam. Besides working in petroleum and natural gas...

energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable...

The Petroleum Revolution (Valencian: La Revolució del Petroli) was a libertarian and syndicalist leaning workers' revolution that took place in Alcoy...

Petroleum pricing in Nova Scotia is based on the Petroleum Products Pricing Act which governs the wholesale and minimum and maximum price of gasoline and...

petroleum industry accounting for 89% of the country's exports in 2010. As of June 22, 2018, it is a full member of the Organization of the Petroleum...

Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) is an Indian public sector company responsible for maintaining the country's strategic petroleum reserves...

The Canadian petroleum industry arose in parallel with that of the United States. Because of Canada's unique geography, geology, resources and patterns...

Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is a statutory body to regulate downstream activities in the petroleum and natural gas sector in India...

The petroleum industry in Kuwait is the largest industry in the country, accounting nearly half of the country's GDP. Kuwait has proven crude oil reserves...

36°06′42″E / 32.1230721°N 36.1116669°E / 32.1230721; 36.1116669 Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (Arabic: شركة مصفاة البترول الأردنية) runs the only oil...

describe the petroleum industry in various countries. Petroleum in Australia Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan Petroleum industry in Canada Petroleum industry...

West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd (WAPET) was an oil & gas exploration and processing company in Western Australia. Formed in March 1952 as a joint venture...

RKA Petroleum Companies, formerly Leemon Oil Co, is a family-owned and operated corporation based in Romulus, Michigan. The company specializes in gasoline...

lawyer, and legal scholar. He was involved with and invested in the petroleum industry via his academic, government and commercial endeavors. He owned...

Quartermaster Group (Petroleum Support), at Fort Bliss (TX) Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 77th Quartermaster Group (Petroleum Support), at Fort...

Asiatic Petroleum Company (APC) was a joint venture between the Shell and Royal Dutch oil companies founded in 1903. It operated in Asia in the early...

The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAOU), also known as the Uganda National Petroleum Authority, is governmental organisation that regulates the petroleum...

over responsibility for petroleum. In 1939 the Petroleum Board assumed responsibility for the coordination of the petroleum 'pool' for oil supplies (except...

focused on the operations, continuation, and success of the country's petroleum industry. FIASA actively engages with stakeholders involved in the industry...

The Petroleum (Production) Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 28 (N.I.)) is an act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland which vested in the Northern Ireland...

meaning: State Petroleum Company of Ecuador) is the national oil company of Ecuador. Ecuador is a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries...

Dutch-Shell subsidiaries, Shell Oil Company of California and Oklahoma's Roxana Petroleum, merged with the Union Oil Company of Delaware. Shell drilled the Alamitos...

list of oil refineries in India, per the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, arranged...

objective of administering concessions related to the state monopoly on petroleum products. Originally, the company was structured so that the state would...

Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company, formerly known as Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, was an oil exploration and development company in Abu Dhabi...

Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom produced around 51.45 million tonnes of petroleum products in 2023, down 16% from 2015 and 32% from 2011. There...

energy-related fields. The EI was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Institute of Petroleum (dating back to 1913) and the Institute of Energy (dating back to 1925)...

mineral turpentine (AU/NZ/ZA), turpentine substitute, and petroleum spirits, is a petroleum-derived clear liquid used as a common organic solvent in painting...

occupational health and safety, radiation control, water management and petroleum storage tank management. New Mexico is committed to the protection of...

1923 – November 11, 2008) was an American petroleum industry executive who was chairman of Hunt Petroleum and an advisor to his uncle H. L. Hunt, the...

conversion process used in petroleum refineries to convert the high-boiling point, high-molecular weight hydrocarbon fractions of petroleum (crude oils) into gasoline...

Krebs On Security. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "ACCELLION INCIDENT". RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "RaceTrac Completes Gulf Oil...

The Journal of Petroleum Geology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the geology of petroleum and natural gas. It was established...

from Norsk Petroleum, oil and petroleum is Norway's most crucial commodity export. In 2020, 40% of Norway's exports stemmed from the petroleum sector. This...

and petroleum specialty oils production company with its headquarters at Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has primarily engaged in manufacturing of petroleum specialties...

(CEO) of Seplat Petroleum Development Company. In April 2025, he was appointed a non-executive director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)...

Industrija Srbije (Serbian Cyrillic: Нафтна Индустрија Србије, lit. 'Petroleum Industry of Serbia'; abbr. NIS / НИС) is a Serbian multinational oil and...

the fossil fuel industries, hydrocarbon refers to naturally occurring petroleum, natural gas and coal, or their hydrocarbon derivatives and purified forms...

Petroleum och tång was released on 14 November 2007, and is a studio album by Eva Dahlgren, with her ballad hit songs between 1980-2005. Petroleum och...

The Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources (ASPER) is a centre for education, training and research in petroleum and energy resources engineering...

Ministry of Energy and Petroleum could refer to: Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (Ghana) Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (Sudan) This disambiguation...

distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in the Democratic Republic...

(มหาชน)) is a Thai state-owned SET-listed petroleum and natural gas company. Formerly known as the Petroleum Authority of Thailand, it owns extensive submarine...

Seplat Petroleum Development Company in June 2009 through the partnership of Shebah Petroleum Development Company Limited and Platform Petroleum Joint...

the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. HDIP works closely with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. The Petroleum Institute of Pakistan...

the project. However, this deal never materialized. In June 2010, Rusia Petroleum, the developer of Kovykta field filed for bankruptcy. TNK-BP also tried...

RP-1 (Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) and similar fuels like RG-1 and T-1 are highly refined kerosene formulations used as rocket fuel. Liquid-fueled...

and Sirte Oil Company (SOC). Libya is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and holds the largest proven oil reserves in...

wood, petroleum, peat, and other organic matter. Mineral products resembling tar can be produced from fossil hydrocarbons, such as petroleum. Coal tar...

PGS (Petroleum Geo-Services) was a technologically focused oilfield service company involved in providing geophysical services worldwide. Its seismic...

from Tripoli to Haifa by tankers. The pipeline was built by the Iraq Petroleum Company between 1932 and 1934, the company's first pipeline. The double...

closed the refinery. around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery. The Champlin trade name was...

the Oil Age, the Petroleum Age, or the Oil Boom, refers to the era in human history characterised by an increased use of petroleum in products and as...

The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC) is a petroleum exploration and production company operating in Sudan. It was incorporated on 18 June...

and assessing the portion that can be economically recovered. In the petroleum industry, a distinction is made between resources, which represent the...

— Saudi Arabia Alliance — Russia Allied Petroleum — Pakistan Allied Petroleum - New Zealand Aloha Petroleum — Hawaii Alon — United States Amerika — South...

American oil and gas exploration and production company. Known as Par Petroleum Corporation after it emerged from bankruptcy, it was renamed Par Pacific...

Pacific Petroleums Limited was a Canadian integrated petroleum company that existed between 1939 and 1979. The company was founded and built by Frank McMahon...

columns using packing rather than trays. Increasing yield, and purity. Petroleum crude oil is a complex mixture of hundreds of different hydrocarbon compounds...

(also Frantz or Frantzville) is an unincorporated community in eastern Petroleum County, Montana, United States. The Cat Creek community is located in...

Calgary Petroleums Ltd. was a Calgary, Alberta based oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for and development and production of petroleum and natural...

lawyer and petroleum and gas industry expert who served as the inaugural commission chief executive (CE) of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory...

The Ministry of Petroleum (MOP) (Persian: وزارت نفت, romanized: Vezârat-e Naft) manages all aspects of the Iranian oil industry, including the discovery...

the Petroleum Industry was created by the 28 December 1948 ukase of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR merging the Ministry of the Petroleum Industry...

The United States Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, established in 1927, is a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, responsible for...

The Institute of Petroleum Safety, Health and Environment Management (IPSHEM) is a training institute of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation that provides...

Williams, J.A. (1980). "Petroleum source rocks, Grand Banks area". In Miall, A.D. (ed.). Facts and Principles of World Petroleum Occurrence. Vol. Mem. 6...

In the petroleum industry, Allocation is typically referred to as Production Allocation, which consists of two key components: commercial allocation and...

African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) (French: Organisation Africaine des Producteurs Pétroliers, Portuguese: Organização dos Produtores Africanos...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR; Chinese: 中华人民共和国战略石油储备) is an emergency fuel store of oil maintained by the People's Republic of China National...

Petroleum is an unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky, United States. It is on U.S. Route 231 at the northern terminus of Kentucky Route...

Hastings Oilfield is an approximately 20-square-mile petroleum reservoir in Brazoria and Galveston County, Texas, United States. Hastings Oilfield was...

previously Petroleum & Resources Corp. (NYSE: PEO), is a closed-end investment company, specializing in securities of companies engaged in petroleum, natural...

crude oil, but it can also be produced from natural-gas condensates, petroleum distillates, and the fractional distillation of coal tar and peat. In...

Renaissance Saint Elm Dallas Downtown Hotel, formerly the historicTower Petroleum Building, is an Art Deco Skyscraper located at 1907 Elm Street in the...

Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) is an international upstream company, which is a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)...

OLCO Petroleum Group, Inc. is a marketer and distributor of refined oil products in Canada. It operates gas station franchises in the provinces of Ontario...

of industrialist Armand Hammer. Best known for his ties to Occidental Petroleum, the company of his late grandfather, Hammer oversaw the Hammer International...

Kongsberg Offshore". PR Newswire Association. Retrieved 9 February 2015. Petroleum Industry Transformations: Lessons from Norway and Beyond. Routledge. Oct...

Energy Ltd. (previously known as Penn West Exploration Ltd., Penn West Petroleum and Penn West Energy Trust) is a mid-sized Canadian oil and natural gas...

energy industry. It is an official journal of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The current editor-in-chief is Matthew J. Pranter (University...

Mines and Petroleum (Amharic: የማዕድንና ነዳጅ ሚኒስቴር) is the Ethiopian government department responsible for management of mining and petroleum sector in Ethiopia...

CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC, formerly known as Nexen, is a Canadian oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. Originally the Canadian subsidiary...

as idemitsu) is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries, produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products...

The Petroleum Licensing (Production) (Seaward Areas) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/225) are a group of regulations passed for the Petroleum Act 1998 that...

The Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, also known as NIOC-RIPI, often shortened to RIPI (Persian: پژوهشگاه صنعت نفت romanized: Pajouhesh-Gah-e...

engine that can use two different types of fuel. Examples are petroleum/CNG and petroleum/LPG engines, which are widely available in the European passenger...

businessman, oil mogul and philanthropist who is CEO of Atlas Oranto Petroleum. He is also the pro-chancellor of Peaceland University, Enugu, Enugu State...

Canadian operations for the Phillips Petroleum Company. Upon the merger between Conoco, Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company in 2002, he became Vice President...

Petróleo may refer to: Petroleum, crude oil Petroleum (film), a 1936 Mexican film Petróleo (footballer, born 1961), full name José Carlos de Oliveira,...

towards mass production of sustainable aviation fuel. In March 2020, Zero Petroleum Limited, simply known as Zero, was founded by Paddy Lowe and Nilay Shah...

Italian petroleum businessman Letizia Moratti (born 1949), Italian businesswoman and politician Massimo Moratti (born 1945), Italian petroleum businessman...

provided Petroleum Development Oman with valuable information for planning potential large-scale projects in the future. In July 2015, Petroleum Development...

John T. Leftwich, Jr. is a geologist with a specialization in petroleum geology. Leftwich has degrees from Virginia State University (B.S., 1969), the...

The Abu Safah field (Arabic: حقل أبو سعفة) is a joint petroleum reservoir between the waters of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Discovered in 1963, the field...

company became known as Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. In 1997, Getty Petroleum spun off a new company of its petroleum marketing and distribution segments...

(April 29, 1900 – February 13, 1947) was an American petroleum executive who served as a senior petroleum distribution officer with the U.S. Navy during World...

of oil equivalent (1.454×1010 GJ) of proved reserves, of which 41% was petroleum, 23% was natural gas liquids, and 28% was natural gas. In 2022, the company...

supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for over half of GDP. Per capita GDP is high, and substantial...

The Sudan National Petroleum Corporation, also known as Sudapet, is a state-owned oil company based in Sudan. It was founded in 1997 and is 100% owned...

transportation of crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It operates as a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), the state-owned...

(1989–2000) was a supply chain management software company with a focus on the petroleum industry. Petrolsoft Corporation was founded at Stanford University in...

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd (GSPCL) is a state government-owned group of oil and gas exploration, production and distribution companies based...

standard equipment, and gushers became a thing of the past. In the modern petroleum industry, uncontrollable wells became known as blowouts and are comparatively...

In petroleum geology, source rock is a sedimentary rock which has generated hydrocarbons or which has the potential to generate hydrocarbons. Source rocks...

Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB (Svenska) is a Swedish-based oil company in offshore production. The company is fully owned by Petroswede AB, a privately...

The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity...

Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (trading as Petrotrin) was a state-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago. Its principal activities...

Norwegian-Iraqi petroleum geologist. He played a major role in the exploration of Norway's petroleum resources within the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate...

added to molten steel. Carbon additive includes calcined petroleum coke, graphite petroleum coke, calcined anthracite coal, electrical calcined anthracite...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) is a trade union representing workers in the extractive industries in Nigeria. The union...

Azerbaijani crude. It meets the country's entire demand for petroleum products, and 45% of its petroleum products are exported. The Gas Processing Plant produces...

Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate is a 2005 book published by Princeton University Press and written by William Ruddiman...

The Tanzania–Zambia Petroleum Products Pipeline (TZPPP) is a proposed pipeline to transport refined petroleum products from Tanzania's sea-port of Dar...

The Petroleum Association of Japan (石油連盟, Sekiyu Renmei; PAJ) is composed of 18 refiners and primary distributors in Japan. It was incorporated in November...

Exploration for petroleum in the Arctic is expensive and challenging both technically and logistically. In the offshore, sea ice can be a major factor...

No. 1, 1914 Bitumount, 1925 Leduc No. 1, 1947 Pembina No. 1, 1953 The petroleum industry has had massive social, economical, political, cultural, and...

to Sidon in Lebanon. It was an important factor in the global trade of petroleum, as well as in American–Middle Eastern political relations, while locally...

crude oil represented 22% of all export earnings. Petroleum exports are in the form of crude petroleum because Vietnam has a very limited refining capacity...

The Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau (or ZPEB) is a Chinese oilfield services company. It is a subsidiary of Sinopec, one of China's national oil...

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum is responsible for the management of natural resources in Afghanistan. The Ministry is responsible for developing...

Petroleum Corporation. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. Before he was appointed CEO of GNPC, he was the CEO of National Petroleum Authority...

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), in Jais, Amethi (formerly in Raebareli), Uttar Pradesh, India, is a training and education institute...

the nation's petroleum resources. Established in 2007 as a unit of the National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA), the government's petroleum regulator, it...

and 7% was offshore of Suriname. The company's proved reserves were 48% petroleum, 23% natural gas liquids, and 29% natural gas. In 2026, the company is...

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) is the first Arab university in to be ranked amongst the top 100 in the world. A research university...

Vital Energy, Inc. (formerly Laredo Petroleum, Inc.) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. Incorporated in Delaware, its principal...

cease-and-desist in 2001. The field was then managed by Canadian energy firm Tethys Petroleum, following the acquisition of the PEC rights in 2009 for US$6.5 million...

The Irish National Petroleum Corporation (INPC) is a semi-defunct Irish State-owned company which owned and operated the Whiddy Island Terminal on Whiddy...

subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation, a central public sector undertaking company functioning under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government...

Center Institute of Petroleum and Mineral Professions Petroleum industry in Syria Ministry of Petroleum "Syrian Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources...

Atlantic Petroleum P/F P/F is an oil and gas company situated in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands and has technical offices located in London (United Kingdom)...

The Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP) is a representative body for Australia's petroleum industry. it was established in 1976 and Its headquarters...

The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum is a museum in Midland, Texas, USA, with exhibits relating to the oil and gas industry of the Permian Basin of west...

The Petroleum Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 25) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended and extended the Petroleum Act 1871 (34...

Ph.D., F.R.S.C., P.Geol. (May 20, 1917 – May 14, 2016) was a Canadian petroleum geologist, paleontologist, stratigrapher, and university professor. He...

enactments relating to petroleum and petroleum products that already applied to other parts of the United Kingdom. The Petroleum Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict...

Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) was established on May 22, 1978. It is based in Hanoi, with a branch in Ho Chi Minh City. The Institute's assigned functions...

largest oil producer in 2009, and has the world's fifth largest proven petroleum reserves. Just a fraction of Iraq's known fields are in development, and...

insurance, healthcare, information technology, insurance, machinery, media, petroleum, pharmaceutical and pharmacy wholesale, retail, technology, telecommunications...

entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry." As an internationally known oil broker he partnered with Phillips Petroleum Company and Signal Oil and...

(EIA), Pakistan may have over 9 billion barrels (1.4×109 cubic metres) of petroleum oil and 105 trillion cubic feet (3.0 trillion cubic metres) in natural...

transportation of crude oil, and production of liquid petroleum gas. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas oversees its operations. Headquartered...

Petroleum, natural gas, and coal are exported from various source countries to countries reliant on these fossil fuels. Fossil fuel exports are dominated...

of reserves conducted by DeGolyer and MacNaughton and according to the Petroleum Resources Management System standards, the company's proven reserves at...

The petroleum industry in India dates back to 1889 when the first oil deposits in the country were discovered near the town of Digboi in the state of...

and a negligible amount was in Canada and China. The reserves were 35% petroleum, 27% natural gas liquids, and 38% natural gas. In 2020, the company's...

includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as well as the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA). Within the North Slope, only a surface "active...

effectively nationalizing the company. It was the first company to extract petroleum from Iran. In 1935 APOC was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)...