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The facts about Petroleum


Crude Oil

This Fact Sheet will address the following issues – petroleum as a form of chemical energy; the historical use of petroleum products; the formation of petroleum; exploration and drilling; today’s petroleum industry; oil shale; the Australian oil industry; the BP Oil Refinery in Kwinana; the Kwinana Power Station; and modernising old diesel-fired power stations in regional Western Australia.

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  How was petroleum formed?
  In regional Western Australia.

 

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Petroleum
Introduction  
How was
petroleum formed?
 
Who finds
petroleum and where?
 
today's
petroleum
industry
 
New energy opportunities  
the development
of the AustrALIAN OIL INDUSTRY
 
REFINING OIL
AT kWINANA
 
wa'S SECOND LARGEST POWER STATION  
iN REGIONAL
wESTERN aUSTRALIA
 
CONCLUSION  
Useful references  
 

 

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