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2. Extraction of petroleum - Wikipedia

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   Petroleum is mostly recovered from oil drilling. Seismic surveys and other methods are used to locate oil reservoirs. Oil rigs and oil platforms are used to drill long holes into the earth to create an oil well and extract petroleum. After extraction, oil is refined to make gasoline and other products such as tires and refrigerators.

3. Pumpjack - Wikipedia

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   For the scaffolding system, see Pump-jack. A pumpjack is the overground drive for a reciprocating piston pump in an oil well. [ 1 ] It is used to mechanically lift liquid out of the well if there is not enough bottom hole pressure for the liquid to flow all the way to the surface. The arrangement is often used for onshore wells.

4. History of the petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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   History of the petroleum industry. One of the early generations of oil drilling infrastructure. Picture from the Athabasca River, Alberta, Canada in 1898. While the local use of oil goes back many centuries, the modern petroleum industry along with its outputs and modern applications are of a recent origin. Petroleum's status as a key component ...

5. Centrifugal extractor - Wikipedia

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   A centrifugal extractor —also known as a centrifugal contactor or annular centrifugal contactor —uses the rotation of the rotor inside a centrifuge to mix two immiscible liquids outside the rotor and to separate the liquids in the field of gravity inside the rotor. This way, a centrifugal extractor generates a continuous extraction from one ...

6. Deepwater drilling - Wikipedia

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   In the background are the Discoverer Enterprise, GSF Development Driller II, and Helix Producer I. Deepwater drilling, [1] or deep well drilling, [2] is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea. There are approximately 3400 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico with depths ...

7. Oil well - Wikipedia

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   An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is released as associated petroleum gas along with the oil. A well that is designed to produce only gas may be termed a gas well. Wells are created by drilling down into an oil or gas reserve and if necessary ...