Talk:Petroleum industry/Archives/2013

Error in "Top 10 largest world oil companies by reserves and production" table?
Not sure what's up with this table. There's two columns marked "companies" - not sure what the second one is referring to. --CircleAdrian (talk) 21:10, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Supermajors?
"Supermajors" is inconsistently used across Wikipedia: here Total is not included in other places it is. I always thought there were three super majors with a turnover of about 300m (E,BP,S) and the other 3 grouped at 180m (T,CP,ChT) were called majors but looking around the internet there is no consistency anywhere: so what do we do? Acknowledge the lack of consistency in the text? --BozMo talk 12:50, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * While we are at it, we might mention the differences between these companies and state-owned companies, many of which are significantly larger, in terms of reserves and/or production, than ExxonMobil. --Geologyguy 13:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

US-centric?
First paragraph seems a little US-centric. How about changing

"Oil accounts for 40% of the United States' energy supply and a comparable percentage of the world’s energy supply."

to

"Oil accounts for 40% of the world's energy supply."

Maybe so. But perhaps with different languages the country changes. I could check that, therefor agreeing with you. The Americans are self-centered sometimes. 24.97.33.132 19:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Starletly

Content Needed
This article would benefit from a significantly deeper history section, evolution of the oil industry from 1700-present in particular. The formation of oil section is thin, but could link to petrol. Maybe more info about OPEC? current Russian oil? just more information in general, some of which is available in other articles, including Petroleum.

Dialectric (talk) 18:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

largest £ value industry
In the article it states that "The production...of petroleum taken as a whole represent the single largest industry in terms of dollar value on earth."

Does this include the defense/space industry?

W. Shipway 213.208.120.226 (talk) 19:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Merger from 'Early uses of petroleum'
Someone on the Early uses of petroleum page suggested that that page be merged into this one. I support this merge, as the 'early uses' page is a stub with little additional info, and it seems reasonable to include that info here under the history / early history section. Dialectric (talk) 00:04, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree for reasons above. Heds (talk) 06:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm
"The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). " Volume? Associated natural gas is a larger volume, cos its a gas. Presumably this is in BOE, in which case we need to say so. --BozMo talk 09:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Question
Are Lukoil and PetroChina truly government-owned companies? I'll have to alter the pie chart at the top of the graph if they form part of the private sector. From what I can gather, Lukoil is privately owned but heavily government-influenced. PetroChina is the "listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation". Thoughts? AniRaptor2001 (talk) 23:56, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

In fiction
I have restored the "in popular culture" section which had been removed for no good reason. When properly written, such sections can positively distinguish Wikipedia from more traditional encyclopedias. If someone wants to improve it, that'd be great. Axelode (talk) 15:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Environmental impact question
Shouldn't greater emphasis be given to the vast environmental impact the petroleum industry has? There are far more dimensions than water pollution. Perhaps there could be a mention in the first paragraph. What do other editors think? It is covered in another article,but I think there should nonetheless be more info here.Rwenonah (talk) 16:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Carbon offsets for oil exploration and production companies
At present oil exploration and production companies currently don't pay for the carbon offsets of the burning of the total amount of crude oil they sell (about 0.43 metric tons CO2/barrel ).

This seems unfair as other companies do pay carbon offsets, and it can be expected that the crude oil they sell will all be burned and its co² released into the atmosphere, so the amount of money needed to eliminate this (ie by planting forests) should be included in the sale price.

The local governments (which add a large tax on the product) should also pay their share, a same percentage as the tax they raise in comparison to the sale price of the crude oil.

KVDP (talk) 09:01, 29 November 2013 (UTC)