Petroleum+resources

Sydney Jekielek Garrett Neal Brody Morgan Logan Weaver

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=List of Topics= -Production of oil and natural gas -Storage of natural gas and petrochemicals in geological formations -Salt solution mining -oil shale -tar sands -Petroleum resources are being overused by humans, causing problems -Petroleum is very difficult to obtain, causing more problems

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[] This site is about the Hubbert model, the original models faults and how the model was revised by more current scientists.

[] This site offers a brief statement of how much oil and natural gas is used, and what for.

[] This provides information about how crude oil is stored.

[] This site gives details on how natural gas is formed, obtained, and stored.

[] This site provides information on salt solution mining.

[] This site provides a lot of information about the composition of petroleum, how it is obtained, and how it's stored.

[] This site provides information on what oil shale is, how it's obtained, what it is, it's environmental affects, and it's economical value.

[] This site provides information on tar sands, what it is, how it's obtained, its environmental affects, and it's economical value.


 * Study Guide Questions**

1. What are other used names of Petroleum? 2. Is petroleum a renewable or non-renewable resource? 3. Where can petroleum be found (country)? 4. Where is emergency petroleum stored? 5. Is petroleum renewable? 6. What is petroleum used for? 7. How much energy does petroleum provide for our nation? 8. What would happen if we ran out of petroleum? 9. Are there any other ways to make natural gases? 10. How is crude oil stored? 11. What is salt solution mining? 12. What are the two methods of mining? 13. What is hydrocarbons? 14. What is pyrolysis? 15. What happens when you heat oil shale? 16. Why is oil shale mining bad? 17. What is a tar sand? 18. Are tar sands profitable? 19. What can we as a people do to stop using to much petroleum?

1.Crude oil and natural gas 2.Non-renewable 3.Middle East 4.Strategic Petroleum Reserve in salt caverns 5.No it’s not renewable. 6.Fuels cars, heats homes and cooks our food 7.More than 60 percent? 8.War, starvation, economic recession and maybe the extinction of human beings. 9. Yes there is. Ex/Turn animal waste into it. 10.Stored in strategic petroleum reserve in salt caverns. 11.When wells are injected with clean water to dissolve the salt and the resulting brine, or salt water is pumped to the surface where the salt is extracted. 12.Normal flow- bottom injection 13.What makes up crude oil? 14.the chemical process that can convert the kerogen in oil shale into synthetic crude oil. 15.Releases off a vapor which processing can distill to yield petroleum like shale oil. 16.Produces less land, greenhouse gases, air pollution and acid drainage. 17. Extra heavy oil 18. Yes it is extracted and upgraded to usable products. This is considered part of the worlds oil reserve. 19. That’s for you to find out.
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