Petroleum

Non-Renewable

• Three different types of oil include Shale Oil, Tar Sands and Extra-Heavy Oil

Shale Oil

• Shale Oil is kerogen, also known as pre-oil, which means it is locked into rocks.
• More than 95% of the worlds shale oil is found in the western United States.
• It is extremely difficult to extract this type of oil due to it being locked in rocks

Tar Sands

• Tar Sands are related to Shale oils.
• Tar Sands are a mixture of sand and a vicious oil that can be further processed into crude oil.
• 85% of the worlds Tar Sand is found in western Canada.

Methods of Extraction

• Workers drill wells in underground reservoirs
• Oil Rigs are usually located on bodies of water

Transportation

• Petroleum's main use is transportation in planes, trains, automobiles and boats.

Resources Used

• Petroleum consists of gasoline, kerosene, NGL and LRG, lubricants, waxes and many other substances.

How Energy is generated from petroleum

• An oil power station turns the chemical energy in oil into electric energy which creates electricity

Pollutants produced

• acid rain is produced from oil and gas being made and it can also affect organisms in the ocean like fish and the coral reef

Benefits

• Petroleum products include transportation fuels, fuel oils for heating and electricity generation, asphalt and road oil, and the feedstocks used to make chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials found in nearly everything we use today.

Limiations

• .Oil is a carbon based fuel and the primary way it is used is to burn it, releasing more than its weight in CO2 because of the added oxygen. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and is expected by most scientists to be a cause of global warming.
• We are running out. Estimates vary from 50 to 150 years before we run out of oil. This is impossible to predict, but most major oil companies have been failing to discover new reserves equal to the amount of oil they are producing for the last few years