The petroleum industry is the industrial sector that exploits and refines petroleum (including natural petroleum, oil shale and natural gas). It consists of geological exploration, oilfield development, petroleum exploitation, transportation, refining and processing units. Petroleum is the "blood" of industry and an important industrial energy source. The development of the petroleum industry requires the following work:
(1) Improve geological exploration, increase industrial reserves and determine a reasonable ratio of storage and production;
(2) Strengthen scientific and technological research on oil exploitation, study and select reasonable exploitation technology and oil well distribution according to natural conditions and factors such as the size of reserves and the natural pressure of oil reservoirs, so as to improve the exploitation rate of oil fields;
(3) Strengthen the construction of supporting projects for oilfield exploitation, and choose reasonable transportation mode while developing the oilfield;
(4) Improve the production technology and management level of oil refining and processing to ensure the automation and continuity of the production process.