Gasoline is made fromcrude oil. The crude oilpumped out of the groundis a black liquid calledpetroleum. This liquid contains hydrocarbons, and the carbon atoms in crude oil link together in chains of different lengths. It turns out that hydrocarbon molecules of different lengths have di...
A pipe is inserted in the water. A motor above the fluid level removes enough air from the pipe to decrease the air pressure above the gasoline. The motor continues to remove air until the air pressure above the gasoline is lower than the air pressure pushing down on the gas outside the...
Even when crude oil prices are stable, gas prices will change if something disrupts the supply. Easy enough to understand, right? But why are prices sometimes radically different in the same neighborhood or even on the same street? For one thing, the retail price of gasoline is often higher...
Crude oil prices have determined at least half of the price of each gallon of gas over the last decade. Asoil prices change daily, gas prices are constantly fluctuating, too. The rest of the price of gas is based on refinery and distribution costs, corporate profits, and state and federal...
The viscosity of crude oil can vary significantly, ranging from fast-flowing liquid to heavy, tar-like blends that are almost solid. This parameter measures the “thickness” of crude oil and is influenced by chemical composition, temperature, pressure and the presence of dissolved ga...
Most of those bottles are a type of plastic called polyethylene terepthalate, or PET, which is produced from crude oil. Almost 90 percent of bottled-water bottles end up in the trash or on the ground, not in recycling bins. They can take up to 1,000 years to degrade, and when they...
Its crude oil output rose to over 200 million tonnes, while natural gas production saw an increase of over 10 billion cubic meters for six consecutive years. China has sufficient energy reserve and management mechanisms to help cope with peaks in energy use amid cold waves and the Spring ...
This invention refers to a procedure for obtaining a biocrude from greenhouse gases, a procedure which is advantageous industrially and continuous. By means of said procedure it is possible to capture, convert and revalue CO 2 , among other greenhouse gases, in an efficient manner, in such a ...
Canada has 171 billion barrels within its borders. However, nearly all of these reserves are located in Alberta's "sandpits," a terrain that makes the oil and gas harder to extract from the earth than it is in other countries. However, technological innovations are expected to make extracting...
Fracking is an inexpensive way to extract oil or natural gas that can't be reached through impermeable rock by conventional drilling. It requires injecting large volumes of water that can become contaminated and affect local soil and water supplies, however. It also releases large quantities of me...