Petroleum exports are in the form of crude petroleum because Vietnam has a very limited refining capacity.

:: The History and Technology of Brunei Darussalam's Petroleum Gallery: The state's main industry is presented in this gallery, covering descriptive narratives on the origin and formation of oil, process of drilling, refining, the history of the petroleum industry in Brunei and a map depicting current oil fields.

Los Angeles in the distance. Petroleum refining is another important component of the South Bay's economy.

Flint Hill Resources LP, originally called Koch Petroleum Group, is a major refining and chemicals company based in Wichita, Kansas.

That same year, Cities Service Company transferred all of the assets of its Refining, Marketing and Transportation division ( which comprised its refining and retail petroleum business ) into the newly formed Citgo Petroleum Corporation subsidiary, to ease the divestiture of the division, which Occidental had no interest in retaining.

Petroleum refining was added in 1946.

The British Petroleum chemical works at Saltend uses condensates from the gas refining process and is a major employer in the area.

In 1966, Phillips Petroleum Company ( now ConocoPhillips ) purchased Tidewater's western refining, distribution and retailing network.

Petroleum refining is the main economic activity of the province, with 13 % of Argentine oil production ( mostly off-shore ).

In 1997, Marathon and Ashland formed Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC ( MAP ), a joint venture combining the companies ’ refining, marketing and transportation businesses, with Marathon owning 62 % of the operations while Ashland owned 38 %.

In 1997, Marathon and Ashland Petroleum merged, forming Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC ( MAP ), a joint venture combining the companies ’ refining, marketing and transportation businesses, with Marathon owning 62 % of the operations while Ashland owned 38 %.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is a U. S. based oil refining, marketing, and pipeline transport company.

As a result, Marathon Petroleum Company exists as an independent downstream oil company, with focus on refining, pipeline, and marketing.

The split was expected by Marathon executives to allow Marathon Petroleum Company to focus more directly on refining, pipeline and marketing portfolio enrichment.

Another early example of this synergy is the use of LP in refining operations, which was started by Alan Manne, an economist, with his book on Scheduling of Petroleum Refinery Operations in 1956.

Hellenic Petroleum S. A. is the largest oil refining company in Greece and with its roots dating to 1958 with the establishment of the first oil refinery in Greece ( Aspropyrgos ).

Hellenic Petroleum operates three refineries in Greece, in Thessaloniki, Elefsina and Aspropyrgos, which account for 73 % of the refining capacity of the country ( the remaining 27 % belongs to Motor Oil Hellas ), and one in the Republic of Macedonia, the OKTA refinery, which is supplied by crude oil through pipelines from Thessaloniki and covers approximately 85 % of the country's needs.

In 1997, Marathon Petroleum and Ashland, Inc. formed Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC ( MAP ), a joint venture combining the companies ’ refining, marketing and transportation businesses, with Marathon owning 62 % of the operations while Ashland owned 38 %.

The company that makes Phillips 66 gasoline began in 1917 as Phillips Petroleum Company, founded by L. E.

Orimulsion is a registered trademark name for a bitumen-based fuel that was developed for industrial use by Intevep, the Research and Development Affiliate of Petroleos de Venezuela SA ( PDVSA ), following earlier collaboration on oil emulsions with British Petroleum.

NME gave the album a 6 / 10 rating, and Robert Christgau rated it an " A -", saying, " Thing is, I can use some new punk rage in my life, and unless you're a fan of Goldman Sachs and BP Petroleum, so can you.

The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum houses a collection of race cars designed by Jim Hall, a long time Midland resident who pioneered the use of aerodynamic downforce in the design of Formula One cars.

The Kirkuk oil field was brought into use by the Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) in 1934.

Creole Petroleum, a Venezuelan spin-off of Standard, agreed to cover the cost of the station and finished a small portion of the vast structure for Beebe and his team to use.

In addition, Audubon was a leader in pushing for legislation to use British Petroleum oil spill penalties to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Reference Two presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Aneheim, Ca, November, 2007 explains the resonant vibration theory in more detail as well as its use in extracting long lengths of mud stuck tubulars.

The Christian Science Monitor observed that a " rhetorical prickliness " had come about from escalating Obama administration criticism of BP — straining the special relationship — particularly the repeated use of the term ' British Petroleum ' even though the business no longer uses that name.

Negotiations went on, pushing commencement further and further back, until 1977, when PETRONAS and the government, faced with the costs of maintaining the tankers between delivery and first use, surrendered management rights — leading to a repeal of part of the Petroleum Development Act — and settled for PETRONAS ' taking 60 % of equity in the new company Malaysia LNG.

Petroleum industry basin analysis is often conducted on subterranean basins through the use of reflection seismology and data from well logging.

In 1984, a trial was carried out with a four 0305 buses already in use in Auckland, New Zealand with two powered by Liquid Petroleum Gas and two with Compressed Natural Gas.

Saga Petroleum, who used Florø Airport as a helicopter base to fly their workers to offshore oil platforms, was critical to the use of the ATR 42 aircraft ; while they were suitable for Florø, that has a runway, the planes would not be able to land at other airports in Sogn og Fjordane.

This allowed the use of Liquid Petroleum fuel for the first time and made the use of the engine in transportation feasible.

Following a further massive U. S. pledge of support on October 19, the oil-exporting Arab states within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) held to their previously declared warnings to use oil as a " weapon " and declared a complete oil embargo on the United States, and restrictions on other countries.

Such use of the economic weapon of oil embargo in the struggle against Israel had been regularly proposed at Arab Petroleum Congresses, but it took the Six Day War for the embargo happen.

Subic has since been transformed and became a model for bases conversion into commercial use after the Cold War with blue chip companies like Coastal Petroleum, Enron and Fed Ex pumping in over $ 3 billion of investments creating 70, 000 jobs in the free port's first four years.

The Petroleum Revenue Oversight and Control Committee or Collège de Contrôle et de Surveillance des Ressources Pétrolières is a Chadian government watchdog committee in charge of overseeing the government's use of petrol reserves and revenues.

Gauntlett bought a 12. 5 % stake in Aston Martin for £ 500, 000 via Pace Petroleum in 1980, with Tim Hearley of CH Industrials taking a similar share.

In December 2011, Afghanistan signed an oil exploration contract with China National Petroleum Corporation ( CNPC ) for the development of three oil fields along the Amu Darya river.

Desire Petroleum and Rockhopper Exploration began drilling for oil in the vicinity of the Falklands in the first half of 2010, sparking strong protest from the Argentine government.

Petroleum found close to the Faroese area gives hope for deposits in the immediate area, which may lay the basis to sustained economic prosperity.

In Italy, the Fascist period presided over the creation of the largest number of state-owned enterprises in Western Europe, such as the nationalisation of petroleum companies into a single state enterprise called the Italian General Agency for Petroleum ( Azienda Generale Italiani Petroli, AGIP ).

In late 1997, Nuevo Petroleum concluded an oil exploration agreement accounting for the last of Ghana's offshore mineral rights zones.

Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum is working to promote Greenland as an attractive destination for prospectors.

Petroleum seeps on the North Slope have been known for many years, and in 1923, the federal government created US Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 to cover the presumed oil fields beneath the seeps.

Petroleum accounts for nearly half of GDP, 90 % of export revenues, and 95 % of government income.

Petroleum products are now produced in the far north of Khartoum state, providing fuel and jobs for the city.

Nouakchott's authorities declared that the government would likely seek international arbitration, which Woodside ( which operated for Hardman, BG Group, Premier, ROC Oil, Fusion, Petronas, Dana Petroleum, Energy Africa and the Hydrocarbons Mauritanian Society ) also contemplated.

The ministries are responsible for various parastatals ( government-owned corporations ) such as universities ( Education ), National Broadcasting Commission ( Information ) and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp ( Petroleum ).

Nigeria also nationalized the British Petroleum ( BP ) for supplying oil to South Africa.

Petroleum is the cornerstone of Qatar's economy and accounts for more than 70 % of total government revenue, more than 60 % of gross domestic product, and roughly 85 % of export earnings.

Mr. Lissouba lost favour with the French government early in his presidency by asking the American-owned Occidental Petroleum company to provide financial support for his Government in exchange for promises of future oil production.

In 1967, applying a satirical angle to a fashion for the inclusion of " superman " inspired characters in UK television commercials, Milligan dressed up in a " Bat-Goons " outfit to head up a series of television commercials for British Petroleum.

* CIPR-Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research

In the early 1950s workers at Phillips Petroleum discovered that chromium catalysts are highly effective for the low temperature polymerization of ethylene, which launched a major industrial technologies.