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petroleum traps
Alberta tar sands
Arabian-Iranian basin oil fields
northern Eurasian oil and gas fields
oil and gas fields of North America
Deepwater oil-loading port off Sitrah island, Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf.
Colombia: oil refinery
Siberia, Russia: oil well
seismic exploration
Central Asia's oil resererves and pipelines.
The environmental impact of Canada's oil sands industry
Learn how crude oil is heated to condense into gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, bitumen, and other products
Visit an oil rig in Texas's Permian Basin and learn how petroleum is pumped and refined along the Gulf Coast
See Germany's use of modern exploration and drilling techniques to tap its petroleum resources in the North Sea
Go aboard an oil platform to learn about petroleum extraction from the reserves off the Chilean coast
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