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Anacortes Refinery, on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington, United States Grangemouth Refinery, in Scotland Jamnagar Refinery, the world's largest oil refinery, in Gujarat, India
Natural oil spring in Korňa, Slovakia.. Petroleum is a naturally occurring liquid found in rock formations. It consists of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds.
A form of diagenesis is permineralization, in which buried organisms are replaced by minerals.These trilobites (Lloydolithus) were replaced by pyrite during a specific type of permineralization called pyritization.
Petroleum [a] is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture. It consists mainly of hydrocarbons, [1] and is found in geological formations.The term petroleum refers both to naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil.
A structure map, looking downward, generated by contour map software for an 8,500-ft-deep gas and oil reservoir in the Erath Field, Erath, Louisiana.The left-to-right gap near the top indicates a fault line between the blue and green contour lines and the purple, red, and yellow lines.
In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon–carbon bonds in the precursors.
Pertamina fuel station in Bali. PT Pertamina (Persero) [a] is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation, headquartered in Jakarta. [2] It was created in August 1968 by the merger of Pertamin (established 1961) and Permina (established in 1957).
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active.