OILS Hope You Enjoy PETROLEUM By : Kevin Courtney Noah Lainey

 Petroleum is buried underground.  We use oil wells to drill into rocks.  The typical well is about 1,000 feet.  Texas and Alaska produce the most oil.  A lot of oil is under the ocean and shores.  After the oil is pumped to the surface it is sent to refiners.  The oil is moved from one place to another through pipelines and by ships and trucks.  By : Lainey

 Without petroleum our country would come to a stop.  Most of our cars trucks and planes are powered by fuel made by oil.  You can even burn oil to make electricity.  We use more petroleum more than any energy source.  What would we do without petroleum.  By : Courtney

 Long before the dinosaurs, oceans covered most of the earth they were filled with tiny sea animals.  As the plants and animals died, they sank to the bottom of the ocean.  Sand and sediment covered them and turned them into sedimentary rock.  By : Kevin

 The Petroleum we us today was made millions of years ago.  Petroleum takes many years to form.  We can’t make more in a shorter amount of time.  We also call petroleum nonrenewable.  The United States does not produce enough.  We import most of the oil we use in the world.  By : Noah

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