Depends upon what you call major. Idaho Falls ID is about 155 miles from Yellowstone. It has a mall. The nearest city with over a million residents is Denver CO, about 580 miles from Yellowstone. Amused Contestant Â· 6 years ago.
Â­ Crude oil is the term for unprocessed oil, the stuff that comes out of the ground. It is also known as petroleum. Crude oil is a fossil fuel, meaning that it was made naturalÂ­ly from decaying plants and animals living in ancient seas millions of years ago -- most places you can find crude oil were once sea beds. Crude oils vary in color, from clear to tar-black, and in viscosity, from water to almost solid.
Dubai-Oman oil is used as a benchmark for sour crude oil in the Middle East. A pumpjack brings oil to the surface. Crude oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons that is extracted from beneath the Earth's surface. An oil well.Crude oil can be refined into other petroleum products.rude oil is the liquid form of petroleum, natural gas is the gaseous form of petroleum, and oil shale and sands are the semi-solid forms of petroleum. Both petroleum and coal come from decayed organic matter that was compressed underneath layers of sedimentary rock deep below the Earthâs surface.