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Oil can be refined into a variety of products, including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel for transportation. It can also be transformed into heating oil and lubricants for machinery. Additionally, oil serves as a raw material for petrochemicals, leading to the production of plastics, synthetic rubber, and various chemicals used in everyday items. Overall, oil is a versatile resource with numerous applications across multiple industries.

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Why are we not producing oil from oil shale?

The reason that oil shale is not used to produce oil is because this is what keeps the oil well from collapsing after the oil is removed. If the oil shale were mined, the oil well would collapse into a large trench in the ground.


How Is Oil produced?

Carbon and Hydrogen: Crude oil was made over millions of years from tiny plants and animals, called plankton. The plankton on the left would form oil in about 150 million years time if the sea bed is not disturbed. The plankton that lived in the http://www.answers.com/topic/jurassic-period made our crude oil. This was the time of the dinosaurs. It was about 180,000,000 years ago. When plankton die, they fall to the bottom of the sea. The plankton are trapped under many layers of sand and mud. Over millions of years, the dead animals and plants got buried deeper and deeper. The heat and pressure gradually turned the mud into rock and the dead animals and plants into oil and gas. Oil is formed over millions of years. It is held in tiny spaces in underground rock, like water in a sponge. Some rocks have tiny spaces called pores. The rocks with these pores can hold the oil like a sponge. The cap rock stops the oil from escaping. Over millions of years, the rocks fold. Sometimes they form a dome shape that can catch the oil. Oil can float up through the tiny spaces in the rock. We call these tiny spaces pores and we say that the rock is porous. This takes millions of years. The oil can't get through the cap rock and is trapped in the dome of rock underneath. The cap rock stops the oil from escaping. The rock layer underneath has tiny spaces, or pores, in it. Although it is solid, it can hold the oil like a sponge. The oil companies can drill into this rock to recover the oil.


What is the difference between and oil rig and an oil platform?

An oil rig is an oil platform or oil production platform. A drilling is different though.


How do you make a circuit so the lights can be turned on and off separatley?

To design a circuit so that lights can be turned on and off separately, we connect the circuit in parallel.