oil industry
Fossil fuel sector
The oil industry encompasses the businesses involved in extracting, refining, transporting, and selling petroleum and its derivatives.
This includes exploration companies, drilling operations, refineries, pipelines, and gas stations.
The oil industry has shaped Middle Eastern politics for a century.
Also called the petroleum industry or, informally, Big Oil when emphasizing its political and economic power.
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- crude oilUnrefined fossil fuel
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- oil rigOffshore petroleum extraction structure
- OPECPetroleum exporters' coalition
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- South Central USTexas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Houston
- economic historystock market crash, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard, Silk Road
- Alaska economycommercial fishing, oil revenues, petroleum, oil drilling, salmon fishing
- Oil Regionsoil boom, oil discovery, oil refineries, oil rigs, oil sands
- AzerbaijanBaku, Caspian Sea, Old City, caviar, tar
- Khuzestanoil fields, sugarcane, date palms, petroleum, oil refineries
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Environmentally sustainable electricity
solar power · wind energy · hydroelectric power · geothermal energy · nuclear power industry
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