GEOG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Radioactive Waste, Nuclear Reaction, Nuclear Fusion
7 Aug 2016
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Petroleum (crude oil)- referred to oil as it comes out of the ground, is a thick and gooey liquid consisting of hundreds of combustible hydrocarbons along with small amount of sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen impurities. Oil is produced within refineries and consist of transporting system issues. Petrochemicals- products of oil distillation, are used as raw materials in manufacturing pesticides, plastics, synthetic fibers, paints, medicines, and many other products. Conventional oil- oil that is extracted by conventional methods, which can be extracted, after the drilling operations, just by the natural pressure of the wells and pumping or compression operations. Unconventional oil- unconventional oil is petroleum produced or extracted using techniques other than the conventional (oil well) method. Oil shale- a potential source of oil deposit, which is neither oil nor shale rock, are fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing a solid combustible mixture of hydrocarbons called kerogen. Kerogen- a hydrocarbontar sand- a deposit of sand impregnated with bitumen.
