Petroleum geology is the study of origin, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons (oil exploration). ==Sedimentary basin analysis== Petroleum geology is principally concerned with the evaluation of seven key ele...
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(from the article `geology`) During the last half of the 20th century, the consumption of petroleum products increased sharply. This has led to a depletion of many existing oil ... ...century, fossil fuels have been consumed at an ever-increasing rate. Today they supply nearly 90 percent of all the energy consumed by the ... The prac...
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n] - the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields
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noun the branch of economic geology that deals with the occurrence and exploitation of oil and gas fields
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