oil and its uses
Main use of oil
what is transportation
Digging a borehole thousands of feet deep
What is drilling?
Barriers placed around the spill to prevent spreading
What are booms?
How most oil spills happen
What is transportation error?
The main use of electricity from petroleum is...
what is heating?
Injecting a high pressure mix of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations
What is fracking?
Vacuum cleaners on the surface of the water
What are skimmers?
The biggest oil spill to date
What is the Iraq Army?
3 of oil's uses not in agriculture
what is gasoline, diesel, kerosene, rubber, jet fuel, nylon
Floating oil rigs in the water
What are deep sea oil deposits?
Materials that act like sponges, absorbing oil
What are sorbents?
Number of oil spills of more than a million gallons have there been
what is 10 to 15?
2 uses of oil in agriculture
what are fertilizers and pesticides?
Steam heating, then dilution
What are oil sands?
What is bioremediation?
The second biggest oil spill to date
What is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
What are 2 fundamental hydrocarbon building blocks created by oil for plastics, synthetic rubber, clothing, packaging, and household goods
what are ethylene and propylene
Using polymers to increase pressure
What is chemical injection?
organization that cleans up oil spills with hair mats
what is matter of trust
The average amount of oil spilled in U.S. waters every year