Shale oil is an oil distilled from shales and used as fuel
The British Petroleum(BP) who are responsible for the oil spill but they are still the biggest company regarding the oil spills.
Basestock is refined petroleum oil with no additives.
It is sold under the brand name Vaseline.
The largest petroleum company in the world is the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, not Shell, as the original answer stated. The top 10 petroleum companies in the world are as follows according to petrostrategies.org (http://www.petrostrategies.org/Links/Worlds_Largest_Oil_and_Gas_Companies_Sites.htm):Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Arabia)National Iranian Oil Company (Iran)Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (Qatar)Iraq National Oil Company (Iraq)Petroleos de Venezuela.S.A. (Venezuela)Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (UAE)Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (Kuwait)Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (Nigeria)National Oil Company (Libya)Sonatrach (Algeria)The largest petroleum company in the United States is Exxon/Mobile, which ranks seventeenth in the world.Seems to be a pretty up to date list of Buyers, Sellers & Refiners below :Abu Dhabi National Oil CompanyBHP Billiton, AustraliaBP, United KingdomExxon MobilChevronConocoPhillipsCitgo, VenezuelaGazprom, Russia (Largest Per Barrell Refining in Russia)Global Energy Swiss AG, ZUG, SwizterlandGulf Oil, LuxembourgIraq National Oil CompanyKuwait Gulf Oil Company, KuwaitLocstein Petroleum Commodities, Switzerland (Reported Multi Billion Dollar Buying Capabilities)LUKoil, RussiaNippon Oil, JapanOman Oil Company (OOC), OmanPetrobrasPetrochina, China (Largest globally)Petrolos De VenezuelaPETRONAS, MalaysiaQatar Petroleum, QatarQuestar, United States of AmericaReliance Industries Limited, IndiaRepsol YPF, Spain ( Largest Spanish End User )Rosneft, Russia (Second Largest in Russia )Royal Dutch Shell, NetherlandsSasol, South AfricaSaudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia (the largest in the world)Shell Canada, Canada (subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell)Shell Oil Company, United States of America (subsidiary of Royal Dutch ShellState Oil Company of Azerbaijan, SOCAR AzerbaijanSonatrachTotal, France
Petroleum
Yes
Petrol. actually its oil.
The answer is crude oil(petroleum)
petroleum is just another name for petrolatum.
"Petroleum" is another name for what the rest of us call "oil" pumped out of the ground. The only difference is that when you call your oil "petroleum", you can get a better price for it.
Petroleum
Oil
Commonly, Petroleum is considered a synonym for Crude Oil. However, according to Britannica Encyclopedia, petroleum as a technical term encompasses: the liquid (crude oil), gaseous (natural gas), and viscous or solid forms (bitumen and asphalt).
Shale oil is an oil distilled from shales and used as fuel
petroleum, residual, crude, bitumen, asphalt among others.
Petroleum jelly is actually derived from petroleum as its name suggests, and by petroleum we mean oil, the kind that comes out of oil wells; water is not involved. It is a hydrocarbon.