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The oil and gas industry uses many acronyms and abbreviations. This list is meant for indicative purposes only and should not be relied upon for anything but general information. This list is meant for indicative purposes only and should not be relied upon for anything but general information.
Surface gold mine with haul truck in foreground, in Kalgoorlie, Australia. Mining in the engineering discipline is the extraction of minerals from the ground. Mining engineering is associated with many other disciplines, such as mineral processing, exploration, excavation, geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and surveying.
These are oil and gas extraction, coal mining, metal ore mining, nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying, and mining support activities. [84] Of all of these categories, oil and gas extraction remains one of the largest in terms of its global economic importance.
Depletion is the using up of natural resources by mining, quarrying, drilling, or felling. According to the IRS Newswire, [2] over 50 percent of oil and gas extraction businesses use cost depletion to figure their depletion deduction. Mineral property includes oil and gas wells, mines, and other natural resource deposits (including geothermal ...
The oil and gas extraction workforce faces unique health and safety challenges and is recognized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a priority industry sector in the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) to identify and provide intervention strategies regarding occupational health and safety issues.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was first launched in September 2002 by the then UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, [2] following years of academic debate, as well as lobbying by civil societies and companies, on the management of government revenues from the extractive industries.
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company: United Energy Group: Indian Oil Corporation Limited India: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation: Oil India: Bharat Petroleum: Hindustan Petroleum: Nayara Energy: Reliance Industries: Cairn India: GAIL: Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation: MedcoEnergi Indonesia: Pertamina: National Iranian Oil Company Iran: North ...
This is a list of oilfield service companies – which provide services to the petroleum exploration and production industry but do not typically produce petroleum. In the list, notable subsidiary companies and divisions are listed as sub-lists of their current parent companies.