1. Physical Flow: From Oil Field to Gas Pump

2. Physical Flow: From Oil Field to Gas Pump
To obtain the oil we use, literally
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of
Infrastructure are necessary.

3. Location
First geologists need to locate an oil field.

4. Drilling Secondly, petroleum companies
must drill for oil, which requires multi
Million dollar oil rigs.

5. Pumping If the oil field is large enough
and has the right characteristics
Then companies set up drills
and pumps.

6. Oil Pipelines
After that, the oil is pumped through pipelines, some of them hundreds of miles long.

7. Shipping (Oil Tankers)
Most oil is pumped through pipelines
to terminals, where it is pumped onto
oil tankers.

8. Refineries At oil refineries, the crude oil is “cracked” or refined,
into a variety of products, such as gasoline or diesel.

9. Shipping (Gas Trucks)
From the refineries, other pipelines, or gasoline trucks,
Transport them to final retail distributors.

10. Gas Stations
Gasoline stations are the final distributor at the end of a
Very long production system