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Transportation of Crude Oil

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Once the crude oil is pumped out of the ground, it must be transported to the oil refinery. Oil can be tranprorted several ways.

Copyright, Chevron, 1996

If the oil is pumped out of the ground in the middle of the ocean on an oil platform like this,

Copyright, Chevron, 1996

the oil must be carried by huge oil tankers to refineries.

Copyright, Chevron, 1996

If the oil is pumped out of the ground on land with huge pumps, as seen here, the oil is transported by pipeline just like in the animation below.

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