Oil resources

( crude oil)
 agenda
Definition of crude oil

Creation of crude oil

Crude oil manufacture

Power plants and crude oil

Advantages of crude oil

Disadvantages of crude oil

 Petroleum
 Petroleum, complex mixture of hydrocarbons that occur in Earth in liquid, gaseous, or solid form.
 A natural resource, petroleum is most often conceived of in its liquid form, commonly called crude oil, but, as a
technical term, petroleum also refers to natural gas and the viscous or solid form known as bitumen, which is found
in tar sands. The liquid and gaseous phases of petroleum constitute the most important of the primary fossil fuels.
Liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are so intimately associated in nature that it has become customary to shorten the
expression “petroleum and natural gas” to “petroleum” when ...(100 of 9031 words)
Crude oil definition
 Crude oil means a mixture of hydrocarbons that
exists in liquid phase
 It is in natural underground reservoirs
 It remains liquid at atmospheric pressure after
passing through surface separating facilities
 Hydrocarbon definition
 Hydrocarbon is chemical compound
 A hydrocarbon is any of a class of organic chemicals made up of only the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H).
 The carbon atoms join together to form the framework of the compound, and the hydrogen atoms attach to them in
many different configurations
 Formation of crude oil
We call crude oil and petroleum fossil fuels because they are mixtures of hydrocarbons that formed from the remains
of animals and plants that lived millions of years ago in a marine environment
Over millions of years, the remains of these animals and plants were covered by layers of sand, silt, and rock. Heat and
pressure from these layers turned the remains into what we now call crude oil or petroleum. The
word petroleum means rock oil or oil from the earth.
Crude oil manufacture

Exploration of crude oil

Extraction of crude oil

Distillation of crude oil

Transportation oil manufacture

 Exploration of crude oil
Exploration Techniques (weebly.com) Exploration

Surface subsurface
geology geology.

-Direct Airborne
-Surface Data Field Geology
Indications: Imagery Geophysics

Gravimetric Magnetic Seismic

method method method
Extraction of crude oil
Distillation of crude oil
Distillation of crude oil
Transportation oil manufacture
Energy and petroleum products
Selected Bond Energies

Bond Bond
Bond Energy(kJ/m Bond Energy(kJ/m
ole) ole)

H-H 432 C=O 799

O=O 494 C-C 347

O-H 460 C=C 611

C=C
C-H 410 (aroma 519
tic)

C-O 360 N=O 623

Advantages of crude oil Disadvantage of crude oil

 It offers us an energy resource that is  It can be unsafe to transport

stable and consistent. petroleum products.
 It offers numerous opportunities for  It can have a devastating effect on the
use ( power plant and vehicles) environment.
 It works with our current  It can change the composition of our
infrastructure. oceans
 It is a fuel with a high-density rating.  It is a resource that could run out one
 day.
It is cheap and easy to extract
petroleum.

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