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History of Oil
Reservoirs
Oil & the Environment
Drilling
Extraction
100
Used by the Chinese get oil in 347AD
What are bamboo poles ?
100
Oil reservoir caused by the folding of rock layers
What is a anticline ?
100
True or False When petroleum is burned it produces carbon dioxide?
True
100
Tower component of drilling well
What is an oil derrick ?
100
True or False All of the oil in a reservoir is able to be extracted
What is False
200
Oil that oozes to the Earths surface
What is an oil seep ?
200
The shifting of reservoir rock against nonporous rock
What is a fault ?
200
The release of a liquid petroleum into the environment
What is an oil spill ?
200
Used to maintain pressure and lubricate drill bit
What is mud ?
200
Oil flows through holes the ______ at the bottom of well
What is casing ?
300
The largest oil fields in the 9th century
What was Baku ?
300
Reservoir rock encased in impermeable rock
What is a pinchout?
300
True or False Oil spills are easy to clean up
False
300
Connects pipe sections on an oil derrick
Who is a roughneck ?
300
Off shore drilling and extraction
What is an oil platform ?
400
The original use of oil
What is a medicine or cure all ?
400
A surface of erosion
What is an unconformity ?
400
Ship used to transport large quantities of crude oil
What is an oil tanker?
400
Lubricates pipe threads
What is pipe dope ?
400
Off shore oil extraction was originally on ?
Fresh water lakes
500
Drilled the first oil well in the United States
Who is Edwin Drake ?
500
Created from organic material under intense pressure and heat over millions of years
What is a fossil fuel ?
500
Spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil in the gulf of Mexico
Who is British Petroleum?
500
How deep was Edwin drake's oil well ?
69 ft
500
The deepest oil well
What is Deepwater Horizon ?