Petroleum products
What is petroleum? How is Petroleum Formed? How is Petroleum Found? Where is Petroleum Found?
What is petroleum?
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.

Gaseous fuels
Liquid fuels
Lubricants
Paraffin wax
Slack wax
Sulfur
Bulk tar
Asphalt
Petroleum coke
Petrochemicals

Where is the largest oil reserve in the world? Oil reserves
2010

Proved Reserves ?(billion barrels) Africa

Libya
Nigeria
Algeria
Angola

Asia

Kazakhstan
Qatar
Jiangsu
Malaysia Norway

Dammam (Eastern Province)
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
North Asia (Magadan Oblast)
North America

Latin

Venezuela
Acre (Asif Province)

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