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Petroleum is found in the form of a thick natural mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons obtained from beneath the surface of the earth. The main producing countries are Russia, the USA,...

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Petroleum is obtained from oil deposits within the Earth. They were formed from centuries of ancient plant deposits, which were buried, heated, and compressed, and underwent complex chemical changes.

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