Petroleum

The step needed for sea plants and animals to become hydrocarbons is

• enormous heat and pressure
• shallow burial by sediments
• refining and processing
• drilling and distillation

The job of an oil refinery is to

• transport the crude from the drill site
• separate crude into various types of fuel
• pump crude oil up to the surface
• mix separate types of fuel into crude

Distillation occurs where crude oil is separated into fuels by

• mixing it with corn starch and letting it settle
• putting it under intense pressure until it becomes solid
• heating it to different boiling points
• removing the sulfur particles from it

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Crude and refined oil is transported around the US mainly by

• trains (20 mi/hr)
• pipelines (5 mi/hr)
• airplanes (500 mi/hr)
• tankers (70 mi/hr)

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Most of the barrel of crude oil is refined into

• jet fuel & heating oil
• diesel & liquefied gas
• gasoline & jet fuel
• diesel & gasoline

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Which of the following describes petroleum formation?

• When dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, their bodies decayed to become petroleum.

• Petroleum is renewable over human lifetimes.

• It takes hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form.

• Petroleum only formed in cold places such as Canada.

Most oil is formed

• at the bottom of oceans.

• in deserts.

• from plants in swamps.

• from land dinosaurs.

When are offshore drilling platforms more likely to be at full production?

• All the time.

• When demand is low.

• When oil prices are low.

• When oil prices are high.

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The fuels with the ________ boiling point end up at the __________ of the distillation tower.

• lowest, bottom

• lowest, top

• highest, top

• highest, middle

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Why is land based oil preferred by oil companies?

• It has more sulfur.

• It is of higher quality

• There is more of it.

• It is cheaper to produce.