NAICS 211120 · Mining
Crude Petroleum Extraction: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 3,973 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) the exploration, development, and/or the production of petroleum from wells in which the hydrocarbons will initially flow or can be produced using normal or enhanced drilling and extraction techniques or (2) the production of crude petroleum from surface shales or tar sands or from reservoirs in which the hydrocarbons are semisolids. Establishments in this industry operate oil wells on their own account or for others on a contract or fee basis.
Businesses classified here include
- Crude petroleum from oil sand
- Crude petroleum from oil shale
- Crude petroleum lease condensate production
- Crude petroleum production
- Kerogen processing
- Offshore crude petroleum production
- Oil field development for own account
- Oil field exploration for own account
- Oil shale mining and/or beneficiating
- Operating crude petroleum field gathering lines, except on a contract basis
- Petroleum, crude, production (i.e., extraction)
- Shale, oil, mining and/or beneficiating
- Stripper oil well production
- Tar sands mining
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 211120), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for crude petroleum extraction
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for crude petroleum extraction
- Texas 1,536 locations
- Oklahoma 660 locations
- Kansas 262 locations
- Louisiana 204 locations
- Colorado 199 locations
- Illinois 121 locations
- California 106 locations
- Ohio 97 locations
- New Mexico 91 locations
- Wyoming 82 locations
All 34 states
- Alabama (13)
- Alaska (15)
- Arizona (8)
- Arkansas (52)
- California (106)
- Colorado (199)
- Florida (13)
- Georgia (6)
- Illinois (121)
- Indiana (22)
- Kansas (262)
- Kentucky (39)
- Louisiana (204)
- Massachusetts (3)
- Michigan (35)
- Minnesota (3)
- Mississippi (46)
- Missouri (3)
- Montana (62)
- Nebraska (12)
- Nevada (9)
- New Jersey (3)
- New Mexico (91)
- New York (14)
- North Dakota (58)
- Ohio (97)
- Oklahoma (660)
- Pennsylvania (78)
- South Dakota (3)
- Texas (1,536)
- Utah (26)
- Washington (5)
- West Virginia (70)
- Wyoming (82)