petroleum industry
Crude oil business
The petroleum industry encompasses all commercial activities related to crude oil and natural gas—extraction, refining, transportation, and distribution.
It includes upstream operations (exploration and drilling), midstream (pipelines and storage), and downstream (refineries and retail).
The petroleum industry dominates the global energy sector.
Often called the oil industry or oil and gas industry.
- crude oilUnrefined fossil fuel
- refineryIndustrial purification facility
- oil fieldsAreas yielding crude petroleum
- oil patchPetroleum extraction region
- wildcatterSpeculative petroleum explorer
barrel of oil · offshore drilling · oil rig · oil exploration · oil reserves · peak oil · black gold · oil spills · tar sands · tankers · oil companies · big oil · fracking · petrodollar · Seven Sisters · oil baron · shale oil · natural gas
- oil industryoil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production, oil field
- Alberta HistoryEdmonton, Calgary, Banff, homesteaders, settlers
- Oil Historycrude oil, oil wells, oil derricks, derricks, oil rigs
- VenezuelaCaracas, Simon Bolivar, arepa, Bolivar, cuatro
- Caspian RegionCaspian Sea, Baku, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Gulf MexicoTabasco, Tampico, Veracruz, Emiliano Zapata, Candelaria
petroleum industryrenewables
Replenishing energy sources
hydroelectric power · nuclear power industry · tidal energy · solar power · wind energy
petroleum industryclean energy
Power from sustainable sources
environmental restoration · green technology · green economy · circular economy · ecological preservation
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