One World Crude Oil

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One World Crude Oil Essay

Andres Valencia

Aug-Oct, 2004

Crude is a term for “unprocessed”. Crude oil is unprocessed oil which is widely found underground. Crude oil is also well known as petroleum. Crude oil is a fossil fuel which is naturally made by the decaying of animals and plants that might have lived millions of years ago. Anywhere you find crude oil is somewhere where there was a seabed. Crude oils vary in colors. It can be clear as well as a tar-black. And its thickness can be from water to almost solid. Crude oil is mainly made up of 84% Carbon, 14% Hydrogen, 1-3% Sulfur, less than 1 % Nitrogen, less than 1% Metals, less than 1% of Salt and less than 1% of Metals. The crude oil I extracted from under the ground by placing a drilling platform within the sea drilling out the crude oil.

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Many things can be extracted from crude oils such as petroleum gas, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, lubricating oil, fuel oil and the residuals. Petroleum gas is used for heating cooking and making plastics. It’s also common by the names:    methane, ethane, propane and butane. It is often a liquid pressurised to create LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). Naphtha or also called Ligroin it’s a part of crude oil that is in the process of being able to be made into gasoline. Gasoline is a well known part of crude oil. It is always used to produce engine fuel ...

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