克拉玛依是以石油命名的城市,得名于本世纪50年代中叶在此发现的新中国成立后第一个大油田——克拉玛依油田,现在是新疆维吾尔自治区直辖市,也是我国西部地区最大的石油生产基地和重要的石油化工城市。 克拉玛依是维吾尔语和哈萨克语Kara-may的音译,其含义是“黑油”。在今克拉玛依市区东北侧约1公里的地方有一群天然石油沥青丘,有的至今仍有黑色的原油自然向外流淌,其中最大的一个高约30米,丘顶雕有 Karamay is a city named after oil. It was named after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in the mid-1950s of this century. After the founding of new China, the first large oilfield, the Karamay Oilfield, is now the municipality directly under the Central Government in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the largest oil production base in western China And the important petrochemical city. Karamay is a transliteration of Uyghur and Kazakh Kara-may meaning “black oil.” In this Karamay urban area about 1 km northeast of a group of natural oil asphalt mound, and some have so far still naturally flowing black crude oil, of which the largest one is about 30 meters high, the top carved