How Offshore Drilling Works" Some people say money makes the world go round.
Others insist the key ingredient is love or even music. But whatever drives humanity to carry on from day to day, our dependence on fossil fuels leaves one fact for certain: The axle of our spinning globe is greased with oil. We consume more than 80 million barrels of the stuff every day [source: CIA]. Oil has many daily uses. What are the advantages and disadvantages of petroleum. Disadvantages: 1.Oil is a carbon based fuel and the primary way it is used is to burn it, releasing more than its weight in CO2 because of the added oxygen.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas and is expected by most scientists to be a cause of global warming. 2.We are running out. Estimates vary from 50 to 150 years before we run out of oil. Petroleum - Sources Of Petroleum - Rock, Reservoir, Rocks, and Organic. Petroleum is typically found beneath the surface of the earth in accumulations known as fields. Fields can contain oil, gas, tar, water, and other substances, but oil, gas, and water are the most common. In order for a field to form, there must be some sort of structure to trap the petroleum, a seal on the trap that prohibits leakage of the petroleum, and a reservoir rock that has adequate pore space, or void space, to hold the petroleum. To find these features together in an area in which petroleum has been generated by chemical reactions affecting organic remains requires many coincidences of timing of natural processes.
Petroleum generation occurs over long periods of time—millions of years. In order for petroleum generation to occur, organic matter such as dead plants or animals must accumulate in large quantities. Once a source rock generates and expels petroleum, the petroleum migrates from the source rock to a rock that can store the petroleum. Petroleum Products. Category:Petroleum products. Petroleum product. Petroleum products are useful materials derived from crude oil (petroleum) as it is processed in oil refineries.
Unlike petrochemicals, which are a collection of well-defined usually pure chemical compounds, petroleum products are complex mixtures. The majority of petroleum is converted to petroleum products, which includes several classes of fuels.[1] Specialty and products[edit] A breakdown of the products made from a typical barrel of US oil.[2] Oil refineries will blend various feedstocks, mix appropriate additives, provide short term storage, and prepare for bulk loading to trucks, barges, product ships, and railcars. Petroleum By-products[edit] Over 6000 items are made from petroleum waste by-products including: Fertilizer, Linoleum, Perfume, Insecticide, Petroleum Jelly, Soap, Vitamin Capsules. Gallery[edit] References[edit] The Story of Petroleum. Petroleum refining basics. Plastics. Plastic is tough, light, strong, easily moulded into almost any shape, can be made in many colours, lasts a long time and is waterproof.
This all makes it an ideal material for many things. In the past there was the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age all named after the most important material used by people at the time. Today could be called the Plastic Age we use it so much. Take a look around you and I’m sure you will be able to see many different things made from plastic. Most plastic is also non-biodegradable, meaning that it can take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose after being sent to the landfill. There are many different types of plastic and this makes it very difficult to recycle. Most plastics are made from oil from deep under the ground or under the seabed.