It was originally thought the spill involved about 3, 000 litres of a chemical liquid, but the fire service said it was 775 litres of non-hazardous petroleum distillates.

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It must either be mined from the surface like coal (to which it is just as similar as it is to oil) or through expensive steam injection with or without the injection of petroleum distillates.

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ConocoPhillips refines crude oil into petroleum products such as gasoline, distillates and aviation fuels.

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Every crude petroleum source material can produce so many gallons of gasoline and other distillates per barrel.

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This is because of a relatively small contribution of natural gas to ConocoPhillips? stock value compared to other petroleum products produced by ConocoPhillips such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, gasoline, distillates, fuel oil, and a variety of others.

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The American Petroleum Institute has announced that for the week ending April 15th, US combined stocks of crude, gasoline and distillates fell by 4.53 million barrels.

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