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  2. Factorio - Wikipedia

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    Factorio is a construction and management simulation game developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software. The game follows an engineer who crash-lands on an alien planet and must harvest resources and create automated industry to build a rocket ; players can continue the game after achieving the end goal.

  3. Pumpjack - Wikipedia

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    The arrangement is often used for onshore wells. Pumpjacks are common in oil-rich areas. Depending on the size of the pump, it generally produces 5 to 40 litres (1 to 9 imp gal; 1.5 to 10.5 US gal) of liquid at each stroke. Often this is an emulsion of crude oil and water. Pump size is also determined by the depth and weight of the oil to ...

  4. Gas flare - Wikipedia

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    Flare stack at the Shell Haven refinery in England. A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, flare boom, ground flare, or flare pit, is a gas combustion device used in places such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants and natural gas processing plants, oil or gas extraction sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills.

  5. List of components of oil drilling rigs - Wikipedia

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    Casing head (#27) is a large metal flange welded or screwed onto the top of the conductor pipe (also known as drive-pipe) or the casing and is used to bolt the surface equipment such as the blowout preventers (for well drilling) or the Christmas tree (oil well) (for well production).

  6. List of oil fields - Wikipedia

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    Bakken Oil Field: United States, North Dakota: 1951 7.3 [38] Yates Oil Field: United States, Texas: 1926 1926 1929 3.0 (2.0 billion recovered; 1.0 reserve remaining) [39] [40] Kuparuk oil field: United States, Alaska: 1969 6 Alpine, Alaska: United States, Alaska: 1994 2000 2005 0.4–1 0.05 East Texas Oil Field: United States, Texas: 1930 6 ...

  7. Floating production storage and offloading - Wikipedia

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    The first oil FPSO was owned by Shell and built by with help of SBM Offshore and Gusto [5] in 1977 on the Shell Castellon field, located in the Spanish Mediterranean. [6] Today, over 270 vessels are deployed worldwide as oil FPSOs. [7] On July 29, 2009, Shell and Samsung announced an agreement to build up to 10 LNG FPSOs, [8] at the same ...

  8. Eastern Trough Area Project - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Trough Area Project, commonly known as ETAP, is a network of nine smaller oil and gas fields in the Central North Sea covering an area up to 35 km in diameter . There are a total of nine different fields, six operated by BP and another three operated by Shell, and together, they are a rich mix of geology, chemistry, technology and equity arrangem

  9. Oil production plant - Wikipedia

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    Oil may be transferred by road or rail tanker or by pipeline to an oil refinery. Gas may be used on the site to run gas engines to produce electricity or can be piped to local users. [3] Excess gas is burned in a ground flare. Produced water may be re-injected into the reservoir. Small fields can use portable integrated packages, like vapor ...