Petroleum Engineering

Natural gas and crude oil are mixtures of different hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are molecules of carbon and hydrogen…

Crude oil and other liquids produced from fossil fuels are refined into petroleum products that people use…

The United States is one of the largest crude oil producers U.S. refineries obtain crude…

What is crude oil and what are petroleum products? Crude oil is a mixture of…

280 to 345 million years ago – Carboniferous period; fossil fuel formation begins. Around 3 million…

In the unrelenting search for more oil and gas, innovation plays an unquestionable role. As…

As the reserves of recoverable liquid petroleum diminish, oil companies are increasingly turning to unconventional…

Chemistry can be confusing because the generic term energy is thrown around quite a bit.…

At its base, petroleum is a fossil fuel, which means it is derived from the…