1. It’s not just for breakfast anymore
OIL
It’s not just for breakfast anymore

2. Uses of Oil

3. 1 barrel= 42 gallons

5. FORMATION OF
Decayed marine microorganisms
heat and pressure

7. OIL TRAPS need reservoir rock need cap rock to hold oil permeable
to seal trap
impermeable

8. Oil traps

9. EXPLORING FOR OIL In permeable sedimentary rocks seismic studies
magnetometers
gravimeter
drill!

11. DRILLING Drill bit at end of drill pipe Use drilling mud
prevents bit from over heating
prevents cave-ins
carries cut rock out of the hole
drilling facts
average 5,000 ft deep (deepest 31,000)
average $95/foot

15. Off-shore drilling

16. Pumping

17. pumping

18. Fracking Force chemical laden water thru fractures and breaks up shale
Releases oil and gas
Contaminates groundwater?

21. Fracking links

25. REFINING CRUDE OIL
Distillation
Based on
boiling points