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Crude oil is a very complex mixture of hydrocarbon compounds with some inorganic compounds. Simple quality terms (light/ heavy and sour/ sweet) are defined for convenience and are inadequate terms to fully characterize the crude.
However, as discussed in the links, a crude that has less than 0.5% sulfur content is sweet crude. Oil that is between 37 to 42 degrees API in density is light oil. Other definitions exist (see link), however this appears the range used for US produced crude.
Light sweet crude will sell for higher prices than other grades, (Heavy sour, heavy sweet, light sour). Many countries produce light sweet crude including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Brazil, Angola, Nigeria, and the US.
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What is the best grade of crude oil in the world?
Bonny Light
Where in the world is crude oil produced?
Crude oil is the raw form of oil mined from underground, not produced. Some places with alot of crude oil however are Alaska and Canada.
Why will the US not drill for oil on American soil?
Because there is not enough quality crude oil in the states
How much crude oil does the world use every day?
The world uses around about 85 million barrels of crude oil each day, or 14,000,000,000,000 milliliters.
How much crude oil is left in the world?
nobody in the world rely knows how much crude oil there is because we might not have found it all yet but the amount we have found is slowly running out
What is the best grade of crude oil in the world?
Bonny Light
What is Nigeria's position in the world in producing crude oil?
Crude oil is crude..
Where in the world is crude oil produced?
Crude oil is the raw form of oil mined from underground, not produced. Some places with alot of crude oil however are Alaska and Canada.
How many gallons of motor oil come fron 42 gallons of crude oil?
That is variable based on the quality of the crude oil, and refineries can also adjust the production of different oils. The majority of crude is converted to fuel.
Why will the US not drill for oil on American soil?
Because there is not enough quality crude oil in the states
Are you making the best use of crude oil?
no
How does crude oil hurt us?
Crude oil can kill wildlife and damages the natural world aound us.
How much crude oil does the world use every day?
The world uses around about 85 million barrels of crude oil each day, or 14,000,000,000,000 milliliters.
In which countries can crude oil be found?
Oil is found all over the world.
Briefly describe the significance of petroleum and find out the places in India where crude petroleum is refind?
petroleum could be found in differnent places like in India America and in nigeria Africa Asia and other some many places and county you can used petroleum for diffrent things such as for vaseline well it's made out of crude oil another name for petroleum is crude oil and black oil.. the significant of crude oil is that it could be used to make anything in the world like almost 90 percent of the things i the world are made out of crude oil see crude oil is the best things that could help humans see how our environment has helped us a lot and not harm us....
What country produces the most crude oil in the world?
oklahomna
How many crude oil pumps are there in the world?
go count them
