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Beneath the Rocky Mountains is one of the largest untapped oil reserves on the planet.
Current estimates are that there is approximately 2 trillion barrels located around 1000 feet below the surface of the mountains.
To put that in perspective there is more oil under the rocky mountains than there is located in every currently tapped oil field on the planet... total.
8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
18-times as much oil as Iraq
21-times as much oil as Kuwait
22-times as much oil as Iran
500-times as much oil as Yemen
There are currently 3 companies with permission from the US government to explore how to extract this oil. The depth of the oil is the first obstacle as it is deeper than most currently tapped oil reserves.
The terrain is also another obstacle as many of the current oil reserves are in flat open areas not mountains.
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Where is crude oil?
under the ocean
What kind of oil is found under the ground?
This oil is called crude oil.
Where do you get crude oil from and how do you extract it?
In the ground or under the ocean, by using oil pumps.
Why is crude oil in the Earth's crust a problem?
We can not get to the Crude oil easy, and you normaly find it under the sea, and as you are digging under the sea and the oil spills it will cause pollution and kill the sea creatures. -Bethany Wilden-
What is Nigeria's position in the world in producing crude oil?
Crude oil is crude..
How are polymers made into crude oil?
Polymers are not made into crude oil. Crude oil is made into polymers.
Where do you get diesel from?
You can buy diesel fuel from a filling station. The filling station gets it from an oil refinery. The oil refinery gets crude oil from a crude oil drilling company and produces lots of different products including diesel and gasoline fuels. The drilling company gets the crude oil from rocks deep down under the surface of the ground or under the sea bed.
Where do you get diesel fuel from?
You can buy diesel fuel from a filling station. The filling station gets it from an oil refinery. The oil refinery gets crude oil from a crude oil drilling company and produces lots of different products including diesel and gasoline fuels. The drilling company gets the crude oil from rocks deep down under the surface of the ground or under the sea bed.
What can you do with crude oil?
What other thing you can do with crude oil.
Is crude oil a mixture?
It is a mixture of hydrocarbons, which can be separated by fractional distillation. Oil is NOT an element.
Crude oil beneath the earth is often under pressure because it is trapped under?
Nonporous rocks.
What is the original source of crude oil?
Crude oil comes from plants, remnants of animals, and other vegetation that were compressed under the ground and exposed to extreme heat for thousands of years.
