oil
German translation: Erdöl
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peer agreement (net): +5Erdöl Explanation: The usual way of describing the stuff in the business I was in for over 30 years is either Erdöl (technical and gelogical term) or Öl und Gas (industry term for refined oil and oil products like petrol ). A few examples of the use of both terms: Rohöl = unrefined oil/ aka crude oil or simply crude (as it comes out of the ground) Erdöl = mineral oil/petroleum - liquid oil extracted from boreholes or extracted from tar sands/shales - often very viscous before refining. AKA Petroleum (literally Steinöl) doesn't look (or smell) like anything you think of as being oil - in many cases, it is more similar to tar and smells of rotten eggs. BTW: OPEC is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - translated as "Organisation erdölexportierender Länder" Ölvorkommen - oil reserves/oil fields Öllagerstätten - oil fields/oil deposits - not necessarily tapped Ölschiefer - oil shales Ölsande - oil sands In my industry sector (exploration geophysics) - aka the upstream segment or E&P (exploration and production) the term used is Erdöl (and natural gas is Erdgas). The midstream and downstream segments (refining, transportation, petroleum products and marketing) call it oil. As you can see, it depends on which end of the production chain you are at. Bearing this in mind, I would recommend calling it "Erdöl" when speaking of the countries possessing oil reserves and exporting "crude/Rohöl" and "Öl" when talking about refining, processing and finished products. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2014-01-05 23:29:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- BTW: The company I worked for almost 30 years was a German company based in Hannover called Prakla-Seismos - one of the world's three largest seismic exploration companies - which was later gradually swallowed by the Schlumberger oilfield services concern from the USA and, in a fusion of various US, Scandinavian, British and German companies, eventually became Geco-Prakla and finally Western Geco. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2014-01-06 09:41:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Interesting oil industry trivia: From an article about Saudi Aramco's plans to invest 100 billion USD in the construction of refining facilities in Saudi Arabia: "Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab economy, will need to import 100,000 to 120,000 barrels of gasoline a day from June through August to meet summer demand, the traders and analysts in the Bloomberg survey said. A joint-venture facility at the port of Jubail will produce 90,000 barrels of the fuel a day after it starts operating next quarter, according to Saudi Aramco, as the state-owned company is known. " |
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