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extraction of petroleum

removal of petroleum from the earth
Thing industry Q1349660
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Summary

extraction of petroleum is an industry[1]. It draws 3,736 Wikipedia views per month (industry category, ranking #26 of 199).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: economic activity[3]
  • Subclass of: mineral extraction[4], process[5], extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas[6], fossil fuel extraction[7]
  • Commons category: Petroleum production[8]
  • Said to be the same as: Q12132756[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Petroleum production[10]
  • Product or material produced: petroleum[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14]
  • Different from: Q112122668[15]
  • Uses: oil rig[16], oil platform[17], drilling rig[18]
  • Practiced by: oil worker[19], driller[20], roughneck[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[22]
  • P14968: Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauotamateapōkaiwhenuakitānatahu[23]

Why It Matters

extraction of petroleum has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Anglo-Persian Oil Company BASF Bashneft Burbach-Kaliwerke Gazprom Lukoil Saudi Aramco Surgutneftegas

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . statbel.fgov.be. statbel.fgov.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2 (2008). wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cv', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'hi', 'hy', '
    Sitelink count → 22
    P14968 → Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauotamateapōkaiwhenuakitānatahu
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14968: Q791, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291586|batch #291586]]"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → oil worker, driller, roughneck
    Uses → —
    Instance of → industry, economic activity
    Aliases → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 15862, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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