Liquid hydrocarbon resources that are refined into fuels and chemicals, namely conventional crude oil and the unconventional deposits of oil sands and oil shale that need mining or heating before they yield oil. A source belongs here when its cited article describes petroleum or a deposit from which oil is obtained. It excludes natural gas and coal, which have their own groups, and it is kept separate because these resources are refined into gasoline, diesel and other products.
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Petroleum (Wikipedia)
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Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a natural resource that appears as a yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting primarily of hydrocarbons.
Oil sands (Wikipedia)
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Oil sands are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit.
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