The Revolting Liquid That Originates From Petroleum

Believe it or not, oil has been a big deal in america.Ever since the colonization up to today. The early American Colonist used oil for lamp propellant and for oiling machines. On August 28 of the year 1859, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil company, before renaming to Seneca Oil Company, first struck oil in the colonies in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The owner of the Seneca Oil company was Colonel Edwin Drake. He called himself a colonel to impress. Edwin Drake was not a real colonel. “He was called “Crazy Drake” because he wasted more than 40,000 dollars from investor’s and his own in a research, that didn’t give results until a year or more after.” Edwin Drake made it possible for the use of a drilling rig on a well successfully. The Seneca Oil produced

In Beaumont, Texas they had started to drill at around October 27, 1900 and before they started drilling again some of them lost hope because they had been drilling for a long time and didn't find anything. They had been drilling for over two months and drilled down above 1000 feet below the ground. When they had returned from their christmas break they started drilling and they heard a “a noise like a cannon” and natural gas was spraying out of the hole. There was so much oil that it could fill up more than 100,000 barrels a day. Texas has been impacted a lot today because they have so much oil in abundance. That is the reason why their gas prices are low and trading is

In the 1900s drove 15,000 oil companies when they first discovered oil in the spindletop texas.There were a lot of benefits of this discovery like higher pay for a lot of the workers, Better football teams and better growth in a lot of their universities. There were a lot of disadvantages to this discovery like in ector texas was 23 times the amount of the national average. Oil was the only way for the future with entrepreneurs showing up all over the U.S region.This discovery changed texas future for ever.

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 has created new opportunities such as college for people who want to or need to have for their jobs. People now have a better chance of going to college than they use to. The legislature had given the two schools UT and Texas A&M two million acres of land. When oil came into town in 1923 it was a booming business. Now that the oil had came into town the oil and land produced 4.4 billion dollars for the university of UT and Texas A&M. Oil money from land grants helped develop higher education levels in Texas. Overall oil has made a huge impact on school in a great way.

Nothing was possible without the oil. John D. Rockefeller became filthy rich on how much oil was used during the Civil War. America ran and still does to this day, run on oil. They used oil in almost all of the refining capacity. “So here is where things are now: oil companies have majority position on very close to it in both coal and uranium. They are leaders in the technology that will open up the future alternatives, particularly the synthetics from coal.” (Greider, A17). People already knew that when the oil took over, they were going to run the show. The reason for this is because the oil they used was needed for everything like said before. They used it for their cars, wagons, machines,

Hundreds upon thousands of millionaires, new cities and towns, and a plethora of jobs are birthed out of one black goo. Oil. Ever since January of 1901, oil has been spewing out of hundreds of oil rigs all over Texas, bringing cities and people with them. Oil changed Texas from a place with very few cities to a place with cities all over. The oil would be found in a remote place and within the month 2000 people would live there, hoping to get rich from oil.

The oil business today is growing immensely and has been for quite some time dating all the way back to 1870. As you can see from the quote oil production is only going to grow more. The man responsible for all of it is John D. Rockefeller.

    Due to the amount of money that people get paid for locating large amounts of oil, around the early 1920´s Texas A&M University was searching for a well.  Finding oil can also lower the cost for because you have a well yourself.  In May 28 1923, they struck a very good one and it started to gush.  This caused it to start a building boom and Texas A&M got 4.4 million dollars richer by 2008.

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

During the 19th century there was a rapid growth in industrialization and change in America. “The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel” (John D. Rockefeller, 2015). The discovery of an oil geyser in Spindletop was a paramount cause for the rapid growth of the oil industry. Within a year, oil became the primary fuel in America and became an integral part of the economy. “This state of things is made possible, and is obtaining, solely by and under the power and use of machinery; first in the hands of individual capitalists; then in the hands of companies; and, lastly, by corporations” (Moody, 1883). Industry leader John Rockefeller, was able to build an empire during this period of time and established his company the Standard Oil

Americans have been drilling for oil for more than half of their existence. Before the 1850’s oil was of little use and had no market for commerce as there was not one overwhelming use for it. Until around the 1850’s, when technology advanced, with it sparking search for one of the most sought after natural resources that countries would later go to war over, petroleum oil. Early inventions like the kerosene lamp provided a new stable home necessity to live by, increasing the demand for crude oil. This would be met in part by Colonel Edwin Drake, who drilled the first successful oil well in 1858. While Drake’s invention for extracting crude oil from the ground would bring about a new era for industrialization, his “black gold” would bring about an even larger effect, the environmental disasters caused by man. For over one hundred and fifty years of drilling for oil, both on shore and offshore, has led to some of the worst catastrophes to both nature and mankind. While many of these catastrophes have led to the deaths of hundreds of crew members, they have also led to long lasting effects on the environment, local and national economies, legislation, regulations, and human morale. These following effects can be seen in the most recent and most contaminated marine oil spill in history. To the media and public it’s known as the British Petroleum offshore drilling oil spill in 2010.

The importance of oil in our society is so great that it affects developed and developing countries. It is a huge contributor to economic growth and environmental destruction. Although the Alberta Oil Sands has destroyed acres of local and global (indirectly) ecosystems, it has achieved and ensured that Canada stays as an economic power. The economical, cultural, and political benefits the oil sands give to Canada makes it an irreplaceable asset to our nation and our global community

Different types of fossil fuels that were consumed were products such as Coal, Natural Gas, and conventional crude oil, the use of these different types of fossil fuels provided consumers with energy to complete their everyday living. It is important to know the advantages and disadvantages of Fossil fuels, some advantages would be; as of right now fossil fuels are readily available for use and there are about 100 trillion barrels of oil to still be mined (Coté, Michael 1). Another advantage is that they are very energy efficient; this means that they can produce large amounts of energy while using little of them. The last advantage is that they generate thousands of jobs for Canadians which helps with the way our economy is shaped, without oil, there would be thousands of people either unemployed or scouting for jobs that they qualify for. A disadvantage of fossil fuels can be that there are huge amounts of pollution entering the air and atmosphere every day, which is now having effects on the polar ice cap that is now melting because the earth’s average temperatures are changing every day. The pollution that comes with fossil fuels is having huge medical effects of our countries. Another disadvantage is that when there is an oil spill it is a huge disaster, when the trucks are travelling along the highway they can crash, which can lead to oil spilling all over the road, which is money lost for the government as well. When oil is being transported underground or in the ocean, if there is a leak it can do great damage to all of its surroundings such as, pollute the wildlife around it, pollute the waters of the ocean, but since oil always separates from water it sits on top of the ocean, which can provide an easier disinfection of the waters. If oil is spilt on the road it make’s a huge mess for people to clean because crude oil is not something that can be easily cleaned (Coté,

Repercussions of burning oil have arisen more progressively. The debatable topic of global warming holds burning fossil fuels responsible for higher temperatures in colder climates. An article by World Book explains why oil is so harmful towards the environment. As more cars are produced more pollutants are released into the atmosphere, those pollutants cause smog in larger manufacturing oriented cities as well as, acid rain. Factories, burning oil, dispose of the remaining chemicals into bodies of water rendering them unsafe to drink for both humans and animals alike (Hunt par. 1). Another article produced through World Book describes the