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A tract of land used for extracting petroleum, or crude oil, from the ground. Although the exact origin of oil is still contested, most consider petroleum a "fossil" fuel, created from dead organic material often found in ancient seabeds thousands of meters below the surface of the earth. There are more than 40,000 oil fields around the world, many of the largest of which are found in the middle East.

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