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2. Petroleum refining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the oil shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just ...

3. List of oil refineries - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.

4. List of oil fields - Wikipedia

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   4.5 Jubilee oil field: Ghana: 2007 2010 3 0.15 Ekofisk oil field: Norway: 1969 1971 2006 3.3 0.13 Troll Vest: Norway: 1979 1990 2003 1.4 Statfjord: Norway: 1974 1979 1987 5 [35] Gullfaks: Norway: 1978 1986 1994 2.1 Oseberg: Norway: 1979 1988 2.2 0.089 Snorre: Norway: 1979 1992 2003 1.5 Johan Sverdrup oil field: Norway: 2010 2019 2023 2.8 0.76

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6. Petroleum seep - Wikipedia

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   The first oil "well" in North America was in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858, dug by James Miller Williams. The US petroleum industry began with Edwin Drake's drilling of a 69-foot (21 m) oil well in 1859 [27] on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania, both named for their petroleum seeps.

7. Petroleum in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Most oil is initially carried off the site by tanker truck. The truck may take the oil directly to a nearby refinery. In 2014, 2.6 percent of oil arrived at refineries by truck, up from 2.6 percent in 2005. If the refinery is not close, the tanker truck will take the crude oil to a pipeline, barge, or railroad for long-distance transport.