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Name: Abdullah Althawwad.
Topic: oil production.
Specific purpose: I want my audience to understand the process of the oil production from the extraction from the field to the oil refinery.
Main idea: in this speech, I will discuss the oil production stages from locating the field, to the extraction, and refinery.
Type: scientific technical presentation.
What I see from my audience that they do not have the enough knowledge about the oil production and what is the process that the oil went through until consumption.
I explained to my audience the process of the production line and I have divided the issue into three main stages. I have supported my presentation with examples and visual aids to help my audience understand.
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B. Second I will explain the extraction of the oil from the ground.
C. Finally, I will explain the oil refinery operations and processes, the how the oil becomes raw martials.
(Trans: I will now discuses the field locating and the drilling).
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I. In the first part, I will describe the two main parts of the first stage which is, locating the oil field and the drilling operations.
A. The geologists start with using seismic survey in the expected areas whether on the water surface or on the ground to find the right geological structures that may contain oil.
1. The geologists are using different methods to create shock waves, which are travels through the rock layers and reflects back to the surface by using different methods based on the geological conditions.
a. They are using the compressed air gun method (over the water).
b. And they also use the thumper truck method (over land). B. Once the oil is located, the area now is called an oil field and it must be cleared and prepared for the drilling operations.
1. Now for drilling, the petroleum engineers are responsible to mange the drilling process. a. The crew creates a large wide dig to prepare the place to install the huge oil rig.
c. Once the dig is ready for the oil rig, the crew set up the oil rig and starts digging a deep vertical hole to reach the oil reserve.
d. Once the pre set depth is reached, the hole has been created and its ready to place a casing pipe to protect the
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a steel pipeline replaces the drilling pipeline and is externally covered by cement. The same
When a new oil field begins its production process, nature takes its course and does most of the work. The natural pressures from the reservoir force the oil into production
Adequate study and analysis of the geography of the drilling location to understand the risks
locating and collecting at least about 5.7 billion barrels of oil. If the oil-producing process
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Since the past few decades, owning a car has become a necessity in order to commute from one place to another. However, cars do not work automatically, they require fuel. Since the past decade, the petroleum industry has become one of the leading industries impacting the nation’s economy. Oil has become an essential commodity as it is utilized in transportation vehicles, serves as a raw material for manufacturing plastics, and is utilized in homes for cooking. America’s economy is greatly dependent on petroleum as it is the “black gold” of the nation. The considerable significance of oil has led to the drilling of it, which is not only limited to land, but also the oceans. Offshore drilling is a method in which petroleum is extracted from underneath the seabed. It is one of the significant technological advancements in the past few decades. However, the ones who are involved in the process of offshore oil production are humans, and humans tend to make mistakes. In 1969, due to a human error, an oil spill occurred and natural gas, oil, and mud shot up the well and oozed into the ocean (“Offshore Drilling”). The oil spilled led to an environmental disaster which killed thousands of marine animals and distorted the environment. In order to prevent the same error, the government passed a moratorium in 1981, banning more than 85 percent of the country’s oil drilling sites (“Offshore Drilling”). The moratorium restricted the United States to mass-produce its natural resource.