Petroleum

Petroleum

A community portal about Petroleum with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Petroleum or crude oil is a black, dark brown or greenish liquid found in formations in the earth. The American Petroleum Institute, in its... [more]

A community portal about Petroleum with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Petroleum or crude oil is a black, dark brown or greenish liquid found in formations in the earth. The American Petroleum Institute, in its Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards, defines it as "a substance, generally liquid, occurring naturally in the earth and composed mainly of mixtures of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen with or without other nonmetallic elements such as sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen."

The operator of an oil rig in the Timor Sea announced Tuesday it plugged the leak that had been spewing oil for 10 weeks and brought under control a massive fire that had been burning since Sunday. Since Aug. 21 up to 400 barrels of oil leaked daily ...  
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