Oil Informative Speech

When people hear the word oil it is commonly interpreted as gas, but the oil that we drill is not what goes into our cars. The oil that is retrieved from the ground is called crude oil, Oil in its raw natural form and when it becomes refined it is used in plastics, rubber, and gasoline. ”Gasoline is a volatile, flammable liquid obtained from the refinement of petroleum, or crude oil. It was originally discarded as a byproduct of kerosene production.” The first oil well was found and harvested in Titusville, Pennsylvania by a man named Edwin L. Drake, in 1859. The well was about 70 feet deep (How gas). It pumped between 20-40 barrels a day

Oil supplies thirty- four percent of the world’s energy needs. Oil is also a fossil fuel. This is because it is extracted from built-up organic material and fossils. Oil is mostly used as transportation fuel. It is also found found in many other products like fertilizers, makeup, paints, and fabrics.

On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake found oil in oil creek Pennsylvania. Oil did not become popular (or a major industry) until the late 1800’s. It was still a great improvement and (in today's time) one of the most important advancements all-time It is important because most everything that is in the world requires oil in order to run properly. Oil fuel our airplanes, cars, and trucks, to heat our homes, and to make products like medicines and plastics. It pollutes our environment. It causes danger to plants and animals d spilled. When the oil spilled n the sea, it caused tremendous danger to the sea animals. Oil helps because after being distilled it causes tarry residue which helps road surfacing, and for roofing. When

Another type of refining is called polymerization, which is the opposite of cracking in that it combines the smaller molecules into bigger ones that then could be used as liquid fuels.

The process of making synthetic crude oil requires an enormous amount of water, especially in the separation process. Each barrel of oil requires two tons of oil sands and up to five barrels of hot water. Water is also needed along with electricity to convert it steam. The steam is pushed by steam injections making bitumen less viscous. It is quite evident that oil sands are not practical in terms of its process. Also three-quarters of the bitumen can be recovered from the sands, leaving behind 25% as waste. With the technology in our present society, oil sands are not entirely practical in terms of efficiency; however, in the future, this may change. To reflect, there are many disadvantages associated with oil sands, especially in the way it is processed.

A life full of color ranging from the darkest black to the brightest yellow and days of loneliness without the company of another person is what gave Vincent van Gogh dedication to his artwork through tons of time and unwavering compassion towards his works. Through a tough life experienced many times in the wilderness, Gary Paulsen uses his past experiences to personally reach the creative minds of young children and young adults through writing. When Paulsen was 14, he ran away and joined a carnival. Later in life, he took up dog sled racing, and spent hours in the wilderness, fending for both himself and his dogs. Some of this information can be found in Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. It is an autobiography about

What is crude oil? Crude oil is found trapped in the underground rock; it is a natural occurring mixture of hydrocarbon compounds, cause from dead marine life and vegetation from millions of years ago. These materials had died and settled on the bottoms of streams, lakes, and oceans; where sediment had then covered this thick layer of organic materials, which applied heat and cooked this layer of materials to form what we now extract from the ground as petroleum.

Crude oil is heated through the bottom of the distillation tower and then each of the chemical compounds in the crude oil are sorted into different units based on their boiling points. Products of this process can include, pet coke, gasoline, jet fuels, diesels, and liquid petroleum (8).

Using supercritical 'brine', such as the water found with typical oil reservoirs or seawater (14) is the key difference and what makes this unique. Based on the cited experimental work, heavy crude can be 'hydrocracked' more efficiently to make a medium to lighter crude in a relatively simple process. It has been demonstrated that in one step, sulfur is converted to H2S for easy separation, metals can be removed (25) and the heavy organic molecules are 'hydrocracked' to shorter chain compounds with less coking than obtained with conventional coking and hydrocracking methods.

The world is depended on oil and soon oil will become more valuable than gold and could lead to a worldwide war. Price for oil could soar to above two hundred fifty dollars per barrel. Oil and other fuel cell also cause green house gases which contribute to global warming. China is consuming two times more petroleum than 1996 and India is projected to consume three times the oil it currently does by 2050. Global house gas emission has increased by twenty percent from 2003 to 2006. Energy consumption has increased exponentially throughout the globe. The U.S. department of energy projects energy consumption will increase seventy percent from 2003 to 2030. The world has agreed to reduce emission by twenty five percent before 2020 and by over

First I want to talk about the Oil Industry and the process of getting oil to the pump that people then use for fuel. Crude oil can be found miles below earth’s surface in pockets called reservoirs. It is made from Hydrocarbons, Organic compounds, and small amounts of metal. These

Every year, about one million tons of oil are lost at sea (Blumer 2). Oil pollution is a frequent occurrence, haunting the Earth, due to society’s high usage of oil-based technology (Blumer 3). It can occur after ship accidents or because of leaking pipes. The pollution can be determined by simply seeing it or by using satellites or radars to locate it (Brekke and Solberg 2). Research done on oil pollution is diverse as oil effects various things in multiple ways. While most of the research presented explores the negative impact of oil, some researchers discuss positive effects. Because of the effects, scientists publish articles about oil pollution to prove the importance of preventing it. Globally, researchers are investigating the effects of oil pollution, exploring methods in place to prevent it, and suggesting new ways to prevent it.

We need oil because it burns to produce energy. We use it to run a vehicle, to heat a building, and to produce electric power in a generator. My family use it for our car which is important because our car gets us to school, my mother to work, and my sisters to their school activities. Oil is also used as a raw material to create products such as plastics, and hundreds of other intermediate goods. Those goods include; paint for houses, carpets, trash bags, and tool boxes. Some other materials that are made from oils are hair coloring, nail polish, shampoo, and vitamin capsules. One of the main types of oils we use everyday is gasoline. Gasoline is the main petroleum product consumed in the United States. Another type of oil consumed is distillate fuel oil, which includes diesel fuel and heating oil. Diesel fuel is used in the diesel engines of heavy construction equipment, trucks, buses, tractors, boats, trains, some automobiles, and electricity generators. Heating oil, also called fuel oil, is used in boilers and furnaces to heat homes and buildings, for industrial heating, and for producing electricity. Hydrocarbon gas

Developed and developing economies worldwide are largely dependent on crude oil. To help meet these demands, economical transport of crude oil is utilized via marine methods. Sea passage, however, is associated with many risks that can be encountered during any given journey. These include accidents, sabotage and pirate attacks. The worst possible consequence is an oil spill. Oil pollution is one of the most disturbing disasters in oil-producing countries. It is also one of the most widespread and influential sources of water pollution. Many regions in the world have suffered from oil spills and their negative environmental impacts. In each year, 0.1% of oil spills are in water and this has been continuously increasing 1. Oil spills are caused by natural leaks or by human activities 1 , and they can have significant and long impacts on marine environment 1,2.

Oil is the most used resource on the planet. The world humans have built is an empire built on oil. It is what has allowed us to grow as a population at an exponential rate over the past 100 years or so.