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The word petroleum comes from the Latin petra, meaning “rock
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The Name
How Petroleum is obtained?
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The word petroleum comes from the Latin petra, meaning “rock,” and oleum, meaning “oil.” Petroleum is a material that stores potential energy.
The main way that petroleum is obtained is by drilling and pumping deposits that are deep in the Earth. Petroleum is used to produce gasoline and oil that is used as fuel.
Kinetic or Potential?
Petroleum is not a "form of energy" it is a source of energy. In other words it's a material that stores potential energy, so it is potential.
Ways petroleum is used
Petroleum is mainly used for transportation, heating, and can be converted into other useful ways to use Petroleum.
Petroleum
How it is obtained?
The main way that petroleum is obtained is by drilling and pumping deposits that are deep in the Earth. Petroleum is used to produce gasoline and oil that is used as fuel.
Advantages
Petroleum
- The transportation and storage of Petroleum is easy
- The messes like spills and leaks are easily able to clean up with today's technology
- Highly compound source of energy
Some uses of petroleum are:
- gasoline 47%
- heating oil/diesel fuel 20%
- jet fuel 8%
- still gas 4%
- waxes 0.04%
Disadvantages
- It is nonrenewable
- There is not much more of it today
- We only have 50-150 years until we run out
- We are using more than what we are making/ getting
- Sulfur and oil end up in refine fuels and contributes to air pollution
- Oil does contain some cancer causing compounds (benzine)