Oil and Petroleum
Extracted from the depths of the earth, oil and petroleum make our cars drive and airplanes fly. Derivatives of this nonrenewable resource are used in thousands of consumer products. Because of our worldwide dependence on oil, it is often called "black gold."
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I was stunned at how many products there actually are. Check out the Related Link for a long list. Gasoline Kerosine Paraffin...
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The density of crude oil varies between 790 and 970 kg/qm. Assuming (970+790)/2=880 kg/qm as an average density, the answer would...
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"How do you make petroleum jelly?" im having a KY jelly wrestling match but i need alot of jelly how do you make KY jelly or were...
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This type of sealing material is used primarily to reduce evaporation of liquid and to eliminate air current in the preparation.
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Yes Petroleum is a nonrenewable resource.
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Petrol is obtained from crude oil by fractional distillation and subsequent mixing of some of the fractions to obtain the desired...
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Marathon Oil Corporation ConocoPhillips Whiting Petroleum Corporation Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation Citation Oil and Gas...
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Petroleum is a word derived from Latin: Petra - rock, oleum - oil. Thus, in direct translation petroleum means oil from rock and...
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The petroleum industry often characterizes crude oils according to their geographical source, e.g., Alaska North Slope Crude....
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RussiaUnited States Iran China Canada MexicoBrazilVenezuelaEuropean Union Norway NigeriaAngolaKazakhstan United...
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This person has no trouble buying petrol.
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Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil producer.
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People fought for Britain when we colonised every African country, they never had "CRUDE OIL".But Britain wanted it so much, that...
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depends on your point of view:- is using crude oil for transportation of millions of people and tonnes of cargo (including food,...
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Petroleum is called a fossil fuel because it was made from the remains of plants. The energy in petroleum came from the energy in...
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A Crude mixture is a mixture that has more than one kind of atoms in it. For example if you were to shrink down to a tiny size...
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It was discovered on the 19th October 1970.
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you use fractional distillation! basically, all the different substances in crude oil have different boiling points, and the...
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After several mergers and acquisitions with companies such as Castrol, ARCO and latterly Amaco, British Petroleum changed it's...
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Yes, it does. Fossil Fuels are formed from the remains of dead organisms. Since these organisms got their energy directly or...
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CNG can be used instead of petroleum
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No, because when we burn crude oil we are wasting the carbon dioxide that is being produced which can be used to medicine,...
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Synthetic rubber is petroleum based. According to Wikipedia, using 2005 statistics, 58% of all rubber production is synthetic...
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Unites States & China
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Oil results as a process of decomposition of plant and animal matter. Obviously, humans have used fossil fuels, coal, natural gas...
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It's a very densely packed, easy to use, easy to transport form of energy. And it's still not that expensive.
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its oily and it is watery
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bad countriesvery bad countriesvery very bad countries
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See the link below for petrochemistry.
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The American Petroleum Institute (API) scale on hydrometers is an arbitrary scale based on Relative Density (Specific Gravity)...
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woodside is a mid tier, highly profitable oil and primarily gas player. its main competitors are anyone selling LNG. within its...
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Crude oil is not largely made up of Dinosaurs as many people believe. Instead they are made up of infinite trillions of...
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Every 42-gallon (159-liter) barrel of oil can be refined into 19.4 gallons (73 liters) of gas, 10.5 gallons (40 liters) of...
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A:Advantages of oil: It is cheap, portable and has a high energy content. When used for electricity generation, it can meet...
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Lots of crude oil comes from under sea, as you might have heard on the news about the U.S.A oil slick, which is causing most sea...
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Es wird durch Herunterfallen ein Loch und Brechen Sie die Beine gestellt.
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would you ever hire any type of engineer that was bad at math?........ didn't think so
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Natural mineral oil, a thick greenish-brown flammable liquid found underground in permeable rocks. Petroleum consists of...
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by year 2050 all the existig wells will be out of oil and if there will be some new wells, that will also not last more than a...
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FIRST OF ALL DO NOT DO THIS!!! I WORK FOR A LARGE IND. LP DEALER IN MN,WI AND MICH.-PROPANE IS AT A LIQUID TEMP OF 44-BELOW...
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The process is called cracking
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Petroleum jelly is used in the hang drop procedure because , it reduces the evaporation of the drops of fuild...
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Oil and gas are chemicals made from molecules containing just carbon and hydrogen. All living things are made of complex...
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I very seldom "fill up" my truck anymore due to high fuel costs. I posed that question to a clerk in one of the RaceTrac...
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IFP is a very reputed institute but the rankings for Petroleum Engineering courses have not been done in an exhaustive way I...
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The largest petroleum company in the world is the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, not Shell, as the original answer stated. The top 10...
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It all depends on the job you take. Production engineers, like those that work for chevron will work 40 hours a week like most...
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Petroleum is distilled into a range of hydrocrabons for the production of fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel), plastics, and...
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cooking stoves, lamps, trains ran on it.
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When the Trans Alaska Pipeline was constructed it was illegal to ship any of the oil from Alaska to other countries. Then during...
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Petrolium is obtained from wells that pump out the petroleum.
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The correct answer is a nauseating 9.6 million barrels per day as of July 4, 2008. Current rates can be seen here under "Crude...
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Enough so that all countreis will run out of money before the middle east runs out of oil.
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gasoline,airplane fuel,fibers for clothing,detergents,motor oil and other lubricants, asphalt for roads, and natural gas
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Well, I tried and I got diarrhea afterwards. I'm not sure if the cause is eating a spoonful of petroleum jelly, but it just...
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Powering vehicles, including aircraft
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The United States of America.
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Okay Ly x -fractional distillation Warhamr
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Oil is the world's most significant and important trade good and is expensive as well. Oil is traded in a world market with...
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All are fossil fuels which means that they were formed from plants and animals from millions of years ago. Coal is a solid. It...
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About 42 gallons (US) or 159 liters. 1.) The barrel is the name of several units of volume, generally in the range of about...
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Lots, the problem is it isn't economically viable to go after it. This may change soon with the way the price of oil is going...
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Yes. Vaseline IS petroleum jelly.
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Crude oil comes from plants, remnants of animals, and other vegetation that were compressed under the ground and exposed to...
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Petroleum is not considered a rock. The definition of rock includes the word 'solid'.
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South Africa does not have any significant oil deposits. However there is gas on the West Coast towards Namibia
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Today most plastics are made from crude oil and natural gas, although they can be also produced from corn and other biomasses....
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38 to 39 API So taking 38,5 API this is 0,8324 kg / cbm or 7,574 Barrel per mt.
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White Mineral oil is derived from crude oil, however its high degree of refinement dictates the properties it takes on. White...
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The average price for a barrel of crude oil in May 2007 was: $58.90
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The different petroleum products are- Fuel Gas Naphtha Light Kerosene Heavy Kerosene Light Gas Oil Heavy Gas Oil Gasoline Diesel...
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Fractional Distillation-I think
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A very large quantity goes into tanks as gasoline. But the list is huge and in fact hundreds of products you find in grocery...
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Clothes GluePensTiresCarpet PerfumeBalloonCredit CardsCrayonsMilk JugsDoll HousesToothpasteShoesInflatable Swimming PoolsGarbage...
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Crude oil is vital in this day and age. Countries in the middle-east such as Saudi Arabia have economic control over other...
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Usually, electricity is generated or more accurately converted from other energy sources (conservation of energy). And most of...
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Nigeria is an African country that has petroleum reserves.
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They can either buy more gas or use other sources of energy.
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Crude oil either flows naturally to the surface or it requires artificial lift. In the US, the majority of wells require...
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c6h6 Petroleum Ether is made of hydrcarbon fractions produced from the cracking of petoleum. It does not have a single formula...
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Binary molecular (covalent) compounds are named according to the number of atoms in the compound. Each number has it's own...
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No because soyabean oil is derived from soyabeans while crude oil is derived from fossil fuels.
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You can't smoke in a petrol station because petrol especially has very volatile vapours. In theory petrol in the liquid where the...
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I will rephrase your question as follows: What is the relationship between mining engineering and petroleum engineering...
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