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  2. Bolivar Coastal Fields - Wikipedia

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    The Bolivar Coastal Fields (BCF), also known as the Bolivar Coastal Complex, is located on the eastern margin of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. [1] Bolivar Coastal Field is the largest oil field in South America with its 6,000-7,000 wells and forest of related derricks, stretches thirty-five miles along the north-east coast of Lake Maracaibo.

  3. Foreland basin - Wikipedia

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    A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by crustal thickening associated with the evolution of a mountain belt causes the lithosphere to bend, by a process known as lithospheric flexure.

  4. Andean foreland basins - Wikipedia

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    [1] A 2018 synthesis of previous research [4] looked at the sedimentary record of eight foreland basins and 5 hinterland basins to reconstruct a composite model for their development as a single Andean foreland basin system. During the Mesozoic, rapid accumulation of sediment occurred at the onset of back arc extension between 250 and 140 Ma.

  5. Oil can - Wikipedia

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    An oil can for a Singer sewing machine Oil can used to store household lamp oil (1882). Windows in the tin allow to observe the level. Cap for the spout on a chain. Soldered Oil can with a push-button pump, indented at the top with the screw cap. An oil can (oilcan or oiler) [1] is a can that holds oil (usually motor oil) for lubricating machines.

  6. Bandar Abbas Oil Refinery - Wikipedia

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    It covers an area of 7 square kilometers, and processes heavy crude oil along with condensate transported from the Sarkhoon gas processing complex. As of 2020, it is the third-largest refinery in Iran after Abadan and Isfahan refineries. [3] Currently, its stated capacity exceeds 320,000 barrels per day (BPD). [2]

  7. Paraguaná Refinery Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Paraguana Refinery Complex is still the largest refinery in the Western Hemisphere. [1] As of 2012, it refined 955 thousand barrels per day (151,800 m 3 /d). [ 2 ] The complex is located in the Paraguaná Peninsula in Falcón state (Amuay and Cardón refineries) and the western coast of Lake Maracaibo in the Zulia state (Bajo Grande ...

  8. 5 Oil Refining Stocks on Watch Amid Biden’s Petroleum Reserve ...

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    President Joe Biden’s administration is taking a proactive approach to handling the oil crisis. He decided to tap into its strategic petroleum reserve in a bid to cool down fuel prices. Since ...

  9. Dubose Oil Products Co. - Wikipedia

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    The current site status has a long- term remedy. In 1990, selected remediation of this location included but was not limited to digging and the removal of any remaining contaminated soil, to use eco-friendly, natural or living organisms for the purpose of breaking down any further traces of soil contamination, to efficiently drain and maintain any possible backfilling relating to this sites ...