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An oil company may work for several years on a prospective area before an exploration well is spudded. In common language petroleum is made of hydrogen and carbon atoms and so commonly referred as hydrocarbon. A natural, yellowtoblack, flammable, liquid hydrocarbon found beneath the earths surface the. Best available techniques guidance document on upstream. The business of petroleum exploration treatise of petroleum geology handbook of petroleum geology series 2nd printing edition. In the early days of petroleum exploration, most oil deposits were discovered by obvious oil seeps on the surface or by telltale surface expressions of a subsurface structure that is indicative of an oil trap e.
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