Oil and Petroleum

Electronics Engineering from Job's Point of view.

When natural gas is cooled to very low temperature it turns into a liquid is called liquified petroleum gas or LPG. It can be moved from place to place in special cylinders. In mountainous areas where there are no gas pipelines, many people use LPG for heating and cooking.

Easy answer you could have come up with by yourself I think.

Crude oil, means oil straight from the ground and not refined yet.

Heavy metals means not light metals. So not iron or sodium but Lead and other heavy stuff.

Since oil comes from the ground and metals are mined from the ground, it makes sense that they could be found together.

So if the teacher wants a different answer he should have said "how is crude oil formed" or something like that.

Petroleum is a dark, stick and viscous liquid. It is formed by the deposition of the remains of algae and animals on the seabed. These piled up to form a sedimentary rock. The pressure hardened the rock and the bacterial activities convert it to crude. Natural gas is usually formed along with the crude oil(which may possibly be the waste product of the bacteria). The crude, being less dense moves up the rock and finally trap under the rock where it could no longer finds porous channel.

Yes, methane can be found alongside crude oil in natural gas deposits. Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, with methane being the most abundant component. Methane can be extracted along with crude oil during the production process.

A sphere has the lowest surface to volume ratio of any solid body. Since liquefied natural gas must be kept at a temperature far below ambient temperature, and since heat can enter the storage container only through its surface, using a spherical container minimizes the energy that must be expended to maintain the stored liquefied natural gas at a low temperature.

The Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia is widely considered to be the largest oil field in the world, with estimated reserves of over 75 billion barrels. It has been a major contributor to Saudi Arabia's position as a leading oil producer.

Crude oil is about as different as cheese. Varies a lot. color is black/brown,water white,dark green,reddish etc. it depends upon the components it hold (As lighter components it hold as lighter in color and as heaver as dark it will be) density is between 700 - 1000 kg/cum and kinematic viscosity can be anywhere between 1 and 8 cSt (centi stokes)

Crude oil in nominal terms refers to its value in current prices without adjusting for inflation. Crude oil in real terms refers to its value in constant prices that have been adjusted for inflation, allowing for a more accurate comparison over time.

The molecular formula for waste oil can vary depending on the source of the oil, but typically it is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, including alkanes, cycloalkanes, and aromatic hydrocarbons. As a mixture, waste oil does not have a single molecular formula.

The physical property that allows hydrocarbons in petroleum to be separated is difference in boiling points. This property forms the basis of distillation, where crude oil is heated to separate its components based on their boiling points into fractions like gasoline, diesel, and kerosene. Further refining processes like cracking and reforming are then used to adjust the composition of these fractions.

Continued petroleum extraction can deplete petroleum resources in selected areas over time, leading to lower availability and potentially driving up prices. It can also contribute to environmental issues such as habitat destruction, air and water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions that can impact ecosystems and human health. Additionally, the extraction process can release methane, a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change.

Coal, natural gas, crude oil are non-renewable fossil resources. Once used up they can't be replaced as they took millions of years to form in the first place. This why we are looking to develop alternative resources, wind, tide, solar, nuclear, and looking for new sources of existing fossil resources.

One drawback of drilling geothermal wells is the high upfront costs associated with drilling deep into the Earth's crust to access the geothermal resources. Additionally, there can be challenges in finding suitable locations with sufficient heat and permeability to support geothermal power generation.

When Earth runs out of petroleum, we will no longer be able to rely on it as a source of energy and fuel for transportation and industry. This will necessitate a transition to alternative energy sources, such as renewable energy, to meet our energy needs sustainably. Additionally, there may be economic and social impacts as industries dependent on petroleum will need to adapt and innovate.

Crude oil is a liquid. It is a naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbons that is extracted from the ground in liquid form.

The simple answer is oil, like coal, was formed from ancient forrests that laid down millions of years of vegetation that for some reason (flooding, climate change, continental drift) stopped growing and were trapped into pockets that were covered by layers of rock and eventually pressed into coal fields and oil fields. Its not found everywhere because all the conditions needed for the process to work didn't exist everywhere. Oil is an interesting case. No one knows for sure how exactly it was created. You don't find vegetation fossils in oil like you do in coal beds and oil contains Helium, which is not used by plants. Physicist Tommy Gold (recently died) theorized that oil started as Methane (natural gas) ,which is the most common compound found in the universe, trapped in the earth when it was formed. The gas perculated up into a sub layer, like the water table, and was processed (eaten and crapped out) by microbes into oil. This sublayer of oil (estimated to be about 60 miles down) finds cracks above it, leading to pockets closer to the Earth's surface and slowly percolates up into these pockets, which we discover as oil fields. One way he suggested to test his theory was to revisit old pumped out oil fields and see if they had partially filled back up.

Crude oil reserves are unevenly distributed due to geological reasons, with factors like ancient tectonic activity and sedimentation patterns leading to the concentration of oil in certain areas. Additionally, economic and political factors play a role, as some countries have invested more in exploration and extraction of oil reserves. Geopolitical considerations also influence where companies and countries choose to explore for oil.

Oil is a naturally occurring liquid found underground, formed from the remains of ancient marine organisms under high pressure and heat over millions of years. While humans can extract and refine oil for various uses, the substance itself is not man-made.

An oil field is an area of land or sea where there are significant deposits of oil that can be extracted using drilling and extraction techniques. Oil fields are typically measured in terms of their reserves, or the amount of oil that can be economically recovered. Oil fields are crucial for the production of crude oil, which is then refined into various petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

The top five crude oil producing countries are the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada, and China. These countries account for a significant portion of global crude oil production.

It could potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, as well as decrease the impact of oil spills on ecosystems. However, the production and disposal of the new energy resource could still have environmental consequences that need to be carefully managed.

Sunlight enables the growth of plants through photosynthesis. When these plants die and decompose, they turn into organic matter that can become petroleum under high pressure and temperature conditions deep underground over millions of years. So, sunlight is indirectly involved in the formation of petroleum by kickstarting the process of plant growth.

The various hydrocarbons present in petroleum have different boiling points. as the number of carbon atoms in a hydrogen increases,it's boiling point also increases.This property is used to separate the different components of petroleum by fractional distillation.The components with different boiling points are known as fractions, and the process of separating the fractions by fractional distillation is known as refining.