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tight oil

light crude oil contained in petroleum-bearing formations of low permeability, often shale or tight sandstone
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tight oil

Summary

tight oil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (147 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tight oil's image is recorded as Schematic cross-section of general types of oil and gas resources and the orientations of production wells used in hydraulic fracturing.jpg[2].
  • tight oil's subclass of is recorded as light crude oil[3].
  • tight oil's subclass of is recorded as unconventional oil[4].
  • tight oil's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gmcy9w[5].
  • tight oil's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/tight-oil[6].
  • tight oil's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 78641617[7].
  • tight oil's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C78641617[8].

Why It Matters

tight oil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (147 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). tight oil. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tight-oil
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_tight-oil_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{tight oil}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/tight-oil}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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