Nixon was founded in 197 1 and listed in Toronto and new york. Headquartered in Calgary, the economic center of Alberta (Canada's most abundant oil and gas resources), Nixon has about 3,000 employees and is the 14 largest oil company in Canada. It focuses on three development strategies: oil sands and shale gas in western Canada, and conventional oil and gas exploration and development mainly in the North Sea, offshore West Africa and deepwater Gulf of Mexico. 20 12 On September 20th, Nixon shareholders approved the CNOOC acquisition agreement.
20 12 On February 7th, 12, the Canadian federal government approved CNOOC's acquisition of Nexen, a Canadian federal oil company, which was the largest overseas acquisition of China oil company in recent years. Nixon's assets include exploration, development and production projects, which are distributed in western Canada, the North Sea of Britain, offshore Nigeria, the Gulf of Mexico, Colombia, Yemen and Poland. Conventional oil and gas, oil sands and shale gas are its three core businesses.
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Petroleum is one of the main targets of geological exploration, and it is a viscous dark brown liquid called "industrial blood". There are oil reserves in some parts of the upper crust. The main components are mixtures of alkanes, cycloalkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons. There are two theories about the mechanism of petroleum formation: biological deposition and petrochemical formation. The former is widely accepted that oil is formed by the long evolution of organisms in ancient oceans or lakes, which belongs to biological deposition and cannot be regenerated. The latter thinks that oil is generated by carbon in the earth's crust, which has nothing to do with living things and is renewable. Petroleum is mainly used as fuel oil and gasoline, and it is also the raw material of many chemical industrial products, such as solutions, fertilizers, pesticides and plastics.
The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians developed and utilized oil a long time ago. The Chinese name "Petroleum" was first named by Shen Kuo, a great scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The nature of petroleum varies from place of origin, with a density of 0.8-1.0g/cm3, a wide range of viscosity, a great difference in freezing point (30-60 degrees Celsius), and a boiling point ranging from normal temperature to over 500 degrees Celsius. It is soluble in various organic solvents and insoluble in water, but can form an emulsion with water. But the composition and appearance of oil in different oil fields can be very different. Petroleum is mainly used as fuel oil and gasoline, which constitutes one of the most important secondary energy sources in the world. Petroleum is also the raw material of many chemical industrial products, such as solvents, fertilizers, pesticides and plastics. 88% of the oil produced by 20 12 is used as fuel, and the other 12% is used as chemical raw materials. In fact, oil is a non-renewable raw material.
The world's ocean area is 360 million square kilometers, which is about 2.4 times that of land. The continental shelf and continental slope are about 55 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to the sum of the areas of onshore sedimentary basins. 1/4 of the proven oil resources on the earth and 45% of the final recoverable reserves are buried in the seabed. The center of gravity of the world's proven oil reserves will gradually shift from land to sea.