Gas and oil today
This is a natural resource found underground that is used to produce petrol, diesel and other fuels.
Crude oil
This is the main component of natural gas.
Methane
What is petrol (gasoline)?
This fuel is commonly used in cars with petrol engines.
What is oil?
Oil, otherwise known as ‘petroleum or crude oil’, is a thick black liquid composed primarily of hydrogen and carbon.
What are the three main methods used in gas and oil extraction?
geological, geochemical, geophysical
This is a place where crude oil is processed into petrol, diesel and other products.
A refinery?
What is gas?
Natural gas is a naturally occurring fossil fuel formed deep underground from the decomposed remains of ancient plants and animals.
What is asphalt (bitumen)?
This oil-based material is used to make roads.
What is a reservoir?
specific underground rocks
What is well log?
Is a record of rocks and the depths at which they are found.
This term describes oil and gas that have not yet been extracted from the ground.
What are reserves? / What are oil and gas reserves?
What are the qualities of gas?
It is naturally colorless, tasteless, and odorless.
Petroleum industry is divided into three sectors: name them
upstream, midstream, and downstream
Oil is extracted from the reservoir by drilling a well and pumping it up the well.
What the geochemists analyse and what do they use?
This process involves moving oil and gas through pipelines, ships and other transport systems to consumers or processing facilities.
Transportation
What are the uses of gas?
Natural gas is used mostly for electricity generation and heating.
Name two everyday products, other than fuels, that can be manufactured using oil-derived chemicals.
detergents, paints, cosmetics, synthetic fabrics or plastics
What does offshore mean?
Located out at sea, away from the coast
What is gravimeter?
A gravimeter shows rock density
This term describes the entire process of finding, extracting, processing and delivering oil and gas to consumers.
Oil and gas supply chain
What are three examples of gas in the air or around us?
oxygen, helium, steam
What do you think will happen to our daily lives when the world runs out of oil?
transportation will become more expensive; the prices of many products will increase; life will be more challenging at first, but it may also lead to new technologies and a cleaner future.
Name all exploratory activities.
Seismic, well sampling, and subsurface mapping
What is magnetometer?
A magnetometer measures magnetic fields