petroleum

Summary

petroleum is a product^[1]. petroleum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]

Key Facts

• petroleum's instance of is recorded as product^[3].
• petroleum's instance of is recorded as nonmineral^[4].
• petroleum's instance of is recorded as mixture^[5].
• petroleum's instance of is recorded as commodity^[6].
• petroleum is a type of organic non-mineral compound^[7].
• petroleum is a type of fossil fuel^[8].
• petroleum is a type of oil^[9].
• petroleum's Commons category is recorded as Petroleum^[10].
• petroleum's has cause is recorded as Carboniferous^[11].
• petroleum's UN classification code is recorded as F1^[12].
• petroleum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Petroleum^[13].
• petroleum's Commons gallery is recorded as Petroleum^[14].
• petroleum's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as resource=oil^[15].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia^[18].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon^[19].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[22].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[23].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[24].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia^[25].
• petroleum's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[26].
• petroleum's has effect is recorded as climate change^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include product^[3], nonmineral^[4], mixture^[5], and commodity^[6]. Recorded subclass of include organic non-mineral compound^[7], fossil fuel^[8], and oil^[9].

Influence

Things named for petroleum include Petroleum County^[28], a county of Montana^[29], in United States^[30], founded in 1926^[31]; Age of Oil^[32], an era^[33]; tonne of oil equivalent^[34], an unit of energy^[35]; Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast^[36], a ghost town^[37], in Russia^[38]; Naftan oil refinery^[39], an enterprise^[40], in Belarus^[41], founded in 1963^[42], headquartered in Navapolack^[43]; and Nefteyugansk^[44], an administrative divisions of Russia^[45], in Russia^[46], founded in 1961^[47].

Why It Matters

petroleum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2] petroleum is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[48]

Entities named for petroleum include Petroleum County^[28], a county of Montana^[29], in United States^[30], founded in 1926^[31]; Age of Oil^[32], an era^[33]; tonne of oil equivalent^[34], an unit of energy^[35]; Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast^[36], a ghost town^[37], in Russia^[38]; Naftan oil refinery^[39], an enterprise^[40], in Belarus^[41], founded in 1963^[42], headquartered in Navapolack^[43]; and Nefteyugansk^[44], an administrative divisions of Russia^[45], in Russia^[46], founded in 1961^[47].