In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

Cargo 9, Liquified Gas 3, Passenger / Cargo 2, Petroleum Tanker 1, Roll on / Roll off 2

Cargo 25, Combination bulk 8, Petroleum tanker 2, Railcar carrier 1, Refrigerated cargo 6, Roll on / roll off 2, Short-sea passenger 3.

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.

The Elantra LPI ( Liquefied Petroleum Injected ) is the world's first hybrid electric vehicle to be powered by an internal combustion engine built to run on liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) as a fuel.

He was intending to return to the Congo for the 2002 elections, but in December 2001 he was put on trial in Brazzaville, in absentia, and convicted to 30 years labor work for treason and corruption, related to a $ 150m oil deal with the American company Occidental Petroleum.

Petroleum products and pesticides, typical soil contaminants, are organic molecules, i. e. they are built on a carbon structure.

The opposition parties and other politicians as well as newspaper columnists have questioned Carl Bildt ’ s suitability as Sweden ’ s Foreign Minister for his private stance on international issues as well as his private affairs as a businessman with interest in Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Lundin Petroleum, an oil company with activities in war-torn Sudan.

At the same time that he was carrying on his war, Zaharoff was also involved in two more significant financial ventures in October 1920, he became involved in the incorporation of a company that was a predecessor to oil giant, British Petroleum.

Vienna has regained a part of its former international stature by hosting international organizations, such as the United Nations ( United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Office at Vienna and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ), the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United European Gastroenterology Federation.

:: 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.

Petroleum geology and geophysics focus on provision of a static description of the hydrocarbon reservoir rock, while petroleum engineering focuses on estimation of the recoverable volume of this resource using a detailed understanding of the physical behavior of oil, water and gas within porous rock at very high pressure.

This article focuses on organic compounds that are not burned as fuel ( see also Petroleum product ).

Ergash Shaismatov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, announced on August 30, 2006, that the Uzbek government and an international consortium consisting of state-run Uzbekneftegaz, LUKoil Overseas, Petronas, Korea National Oil Corporation, and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a production-sharing agreement to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Aral Sea, saying, " The Aral Sea is largely unknown, but it holds a lot of promise in terms of finding oil and gas.

Citronelle Oil Field, located on the crest of the dome, has produced more than 169 MMbbl ( million barrels ) of 42-46 ° American Petroleum Institute ( API ) gravity oil from the Lower Cretaceous Donovan Sand.

Known as the “ Dean of Petroleum Geologists " Orcutt is credited with discovering fossilized prehistoric animal bones preserved in pools of asphalt on the Hancock Ranch.

Later on, Marathon Petroleum Company moved to nearby Robinson, Illinois, and is now the largest inland petroleum refinery in the United States.

* T. Boone Pickens, chairman of the private equity firm BP Capital Management, and former CEO of Mesa Petroleum, currently lives on his ranch north of Pampa.

In the summer of 2007, over 24, 000 gallons of gasoline leaked from a storage tank beneath the Top Stop gas station, located on the corner of South Main and East Center and owned by Wind River Petroleum.

As of 2010, approximately $ 3 million ($ 1 million from a state cleanup fund, $ 2 million from Wind River Petroleum ) had been spent on the cleanup, which is expected to last a decade.

Providing more information about this industry is the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, located on the outskirts of town near Interstate 20.

Woodside Petroleum and ConocoPhillips began development of some resources in the Timor Gap on behalf of the two governments in 1992.

** Petroleum spirit ( North American term: gasoline, British term: petrol )

Mike Johnson, a petroleum geologist in Denver, Colorado, is recognized as responsible for the discovery ( Johnson, M. S., 2011, Discovery of Parshall Field, North Dakota, in, The Bakken – Three Forks Petroleum System in the Williston Basin, edited by John W. Robinson, Julie A. LeFever, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists ( www. rmag. org ).

Unfortunately, because of significant investment in a North Sea oil play by a subsidiary, Westar Petroleum, as well as bad timing in a mining investment by another subsidiary, Westar Mining, the company ran into financial trouble.

Norway was unprepared when representatives from Phillips Petroleum in the US came to Norway in 1962 to request oil exploration rights in the North Sea.

* Woolworths @ Gull – 22 Woolworths Quickstop and Woolworths Micro convenience supermarkets, operating in the North Island on Gull Petroleum fuel sites.

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum ( Caledonia ) Ltd.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation ( Oxy ) is a California-based oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America.

On July 6, 1988, an explosion and subsequent inferno on the Piper Alpha platform, operated by Occidental Petroleum ( Caledonia ) Ltd in the Scottish North Sea, resulted in 167 fatalities in what remains the world's most deadly offshore disaster.

In 1977, he and his crew ( including Asger " Boots " Hansen ) contributed to the capping of the biggest oil well blowout ever to have occurred in the North Sea ( and the second largest offshore blowout worldwide, in terms of volume of crude oil spilled ), at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, located in the Norwegian sector and operated by Phillips Petroleum Company ( now ConocoPhillips ).

A diversified base of agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, processing, and distributing provides employment for citizens throughout southeast Illinois in such industries as Automotive Technology Systems, Marathon Petroleum Refining, Champion Laboratories, Hella Electronics, North American Lighting, Wal-Mart Distribution Center, and various healthcare centers.

FeNaClNGEach year in August Pilbara Iron, Dampier Salt, Woodside Petroleum Limited ( WEL ), and other smaller companies sponsor one of the largest festivals in the North West, over two days.

He was a member 1979-1985 of the Scottish North investment Trust, and a director of Britoil plc 1988-1990, and joined the British Petroleum ( BP ) Scottish Advisory Board ( 1990 – 1996 ).

Discovered in 1969 by Phillips Petroleum Company, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea.

Petroleum has long been produced from anticlinal traps of the Muddy Sandstone ( Cretaceous ) at North McCallum and South McCallum oil fields.

A joint venture with China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Limited ( or Sinopec ) was announced, that saw Talisman sell 49 % of its Aberdeen, Scotland-based North Sea business to Sinopec for US $ 1. 5-billion.

Petroleum, mining machinery and aircraft have been the primary U. S. exports to Papua New Guinea.

Gas turbines have been used experimentally to power seagoing commercial vessels since about 1949 ( Anglo Saxon Petroleum oil tanker " Auris ").

Petroleum engineering education is available at 17 universities in the United States and many more throughout the world-primarily in oil producing regions-and some oil companies have considerable in-house petroleum engineering training classes.

' Several of Rendon's non-governmental clients also have headquarters in Kuwait: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Kuwait University, American Housing Consortium, American Business Council of Kuwait, and KPMY / Peat Marwick.

Both companies have since undergone reorganization and Phillips, once a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum is now part of ConocoPhillips, an American oil and discount fossil fuel company, while Alcolac International has since dissolved and reformed as Alcolac Inc. Alcolac was named as a defendant in the Aziz v. Iraq case presently pending in the United States District Court ( Case No. 1: 09-cv-00869-MJG ).

On that month, he nationalised 246 Dutch companies which have been dominating Indonesian economy ( most notably the NHM, Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, Escomptobank, Internatio, Geo Wehry & Co, Jacobson & Berg, etc.

In 1999, Abraham co-sponsored S. 896, a bill to abolish the U. S. Department of Energy, which would have transferred control of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in large part to the Defense Department.

* Integrated operations, a term used in the Petroleum Industry describing new work processes and ways of working that have been facilitated by modern information and communication technologies

Research organizations in India which have a MOU with IIT Roorkee include Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun ; Department of Atomic Engineering ( DAE ), Mumbai ; Intel Technology India Pvt.

Petroleum reserves have also been discovered and a number of oil fields are under development in this region, most notably the Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose projects ; the harsh environment on the Grand Banks also led to the Ocean Ranger disaster.

Many world level oil and gas companies such as Gazprom, LUKoil and Gazpromneft, TNK-BP, Shell ( Salym Petroleum Development N. V .) have their representative offices in Tyumen.

Some collectors of used stamps have discovered that although not readily removable by water, the self-adhesives can be removed with Bestine ( a hexane solvent ), Benzine ( Petroleum Ether ), or a natural based citrus solvent containing d-limonene ( e. g., Pure Citrus Orange is an air freshener product that works for this purpose ).

Petroleum refineries also have very large cooling tower systems.

They have since sold Getty Petroleum Marketing to a private investment group in 2011.

Petroleum politics have been an increasingly important aspect of diplomacy since the rise of the petroleum industry in the Middle East in the early 20th century.

Vice President Cheney was reported to have met personally with the Chief Executive Officer of BP ( formerly British Petroleum ) during the time of the Energy Task Force's activities.

Under special legislation they have extended land rights and are given special privileges for employment opportunities in the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and Brunei Shell Petroleum.

Initially, ownership shares in the Consortium proposed to be divided along the following lines: 40 % to be divided equally ( 8 % each ) among the five major American companies ; British Petroleum to have a 40 % share ; Royal Dutch / Shell to have 14 %; and CFP, a French Company, to receive 6 %.

Petroleum exploration in the region threatens the foundations of the site, as various seismic tests have been undertaken to explore for reserves of petroleum.

Petroleum hydrocarbons, benzo ( a ) pyrene ( polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ), and mercury have all been found in quantities several times the maximum safe levels.