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Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the nineteenth century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) (Arabic: الهيئة المصرية العامة للبترول) is a national oil company of Egypt. EGPC's business includes crude oil exploration, refining, and storage. The company also produces lubricants and greases and offers services for oil and gas projects. [1]
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.
Although Egypt is not a member of OPEC, it is a member of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. [2] As of 2005, Egypt's proven oil reserves were estimated at 3.7 billion bbl (590 million m 3), of which 2.9 billion bbl (460 million m 3) was crude oil and 0.8 billion bbl (130 million m 3) were natural gas liquids. [2]
During the summer, Egypt resorted to load-shedding to keep its power grid functioning, saying it needed to import around $1.18 billion worth of natural gas and mazut fuel oil to end long-running ...
In April 2010, the 4th Workshop on Regional Cooperation for Clean Utilization of Oil Shale was held in Egypt and later the same month an Oil Shale Cooperation Center was established in Amman by Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Syria and Turkey. [72] In 2011, Israel closed the Mishor Rotem Power Station. [142]
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
Anglo-Egyptian Oilfields Limited was an oil company registered in London, England on 6 July 1911 [1] with oilfields in Egypt. It was a joint venture between Shell and BP. [2]In July 1961 the government of the United Arab Republic acquired a 50% shareholding in the company.