The Nile Valley and Delta is the most extensive oasis on Earth, covering approximately 22,000 km² (8,500 miles²). Without the Nile, Egypt would be entirely composed of desert. The River Nile has a total length of 6,695 km (4,160 miles).
The largest oak leaf measured 41 cm (16.14 in) long and 28 cm (11 in) wide and was found by Brady Plebon (Canada) in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, Canada, on 17 October 2010. The leaf was discovered when the family was searching for an oak to transplant to their yard.
The largest nutrition lesson was achieved by 9,079 participants in an event organised by Sportregion Rhein-Neckar e.V” and Mussler & Felten GmbH in Germany, on 12 May 2009. Turnstiles were used to count the people.
The largest nutcracker measures 10.10 m (33 ft 1 in) high and is fully functional. It was made by J?rgen and Uwe L?schner (both Germany) in Neuhausen, Germany, on 09 August 2008.
The largest okonomiyaki was made by Kamigata Okonomiyaki Takoyaki Cooperative Association, Osaka, Japan and weighed 1.6 tonnes (3,527.3 lb). The giant okonomiyaki was displayed at Nishinomaru Garden, Osaka Castle park, Osaka, Japan on 3 November 2002. An okonomiyaki is a thin, flat cake made from unsweetened batter fried with ingredients such as vegetables, meat and seafood.
The 4 T1 class ultra-large crude carriers were constructed in 2002/2003 by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea. They are 379 m long and 68 m wide and have a displacement of 517,659 metric tonnes when fully loaded. Named T1 Africa, T1 Asia, T1 Europe and T1 Oceania, they are the largest ships constructed since the Jahre Viking (Seawise Giant, Knock Nevis). In 2010 two of the T1 ships were converted to floating oil storage vessels.
The Reliance Jamnagar complex, in Gujarat, India, consists of two massive oil refineries adjacent to each other, completed in 1999 and 2008. The two refineries between them have a maximum capacity of more than 1.2 million barrels (190 million litres) of crude oil each day.
The world’s largest oil producing company is Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco), which controls oil reserves of approximately 303,285 billion barrels.
An oil gusher, or wildcat, is the uncontrolled release of oil which, because of its depth below the ground, is under great pressure. On 26 August 1956 an enormous wildcat occurred near Qom, Iran, in which some 120,000 barrels of crude oil per day leaked in a fountain that reached 52 m high. The Qom wildcat was extinguished after 90 days.
The Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia was discovered in 1948 and measures around 280 x 25 miles, with an area of around 1.3 million acres (5,260 km2). It is owned and operated by Saudi Aramco and contains approximately 71 billion barrels of oil, with an estimated production rate of around 5 million barrels per day.