Petroleum is used to make fuels, oils, fertilizers, pesticides and the petrochemicals present in a wide variety of other products. Many business sectors rely on petroleum, including the fashion, art, agriculture, health care and transportation industries. Petrol is essential in meeting the world’s transportation needs. In addition to being used in fuels that power automobiles, heavy-duty vehicles [...]
But it’s undeniable that fossil fuels allowed our societies to dramatically change in a very short span of time. Using them, people could bring much more energy to bear in shaping our environment than previously possible — and energy means tractors to pull plows instead of oxen, cars instead of carriages, steel mills instead of blacksmiths, [...]
Petroleum, also called crude oil, is a thick, flammable, yellow-to-black colored liquid. Petroleum was first found oozing out of rocks on Earth's surface. Hence, its name comes from the Latin words petra, meaning rock, and oleum, meaning oil. Petroleum is a hydrocarbon, an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen. It is a mixture of other [...]