6 Jun 2015 Of course, petroleum has both advantages and disadvantages that we should be aware of. Technologies that are used for extracting oil beneath the planet's Now, it is being mined off sea coasts and tar sands. refining it to get valuable products, such as gas and diesel, have also become quite easy. We use petroleum to make renewable energy products. Critics might point out that We can extract petroleum from rock strata with little difficulty. Petroleum hunters look at Shale and tar sands release petroleum as well in a variety of ways too. 31 Aug 2009 “¢ As far as extraction methods go, the ones used in the Alberta oil sands are among the most carbon-intensive. When compared to the average 19 Apr 2019 20 Big Advantages and Disadvantages of Petroleum allow us to drill through the surface of the ocean too to extract what is needed. Soap products, computers, heating and cooling needs, and many other items that we The Orinoco oil sands in Venezuela and the Canada oil sands region are both
- Oil sands require mining, which is more complex and costly than drilling and pumping crude oil. - Processing requires more energy than for crude oil. - Refining is more difficult because the product is in the form of bitumen - requiring cracking to produce a saleable product. Advantages - large resource of potential oil - biggest resource is in Canada, whereas the largest reserves of crude oil are in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela - It requires less processing than oil shale and presents fewer problems than oil shale - Processing is mainly by hot water. The threat to wildlife: Waste products from oil sands are highly toxic and can be dumped into ponds posing a threat to wildlife and marine life. 2. Limited reserves: The oil sand reserves are limited. The current global reserve occupies around 1.3 trillion barrels which are estimated to 40 years of oil supply based on current consumption rate. The heavy crude oil extracted from oil sands is a viscous semisolid that does not easily flow at normal oil pipeline temperatures, making it difficult to transport to market and expensive to process into gasoline, diesel and fuel.
the 'clean energy future',41 extracting oil from the tar sands requires a good water, pumping bitumen and creating an increase in petroleum coke by-products Crude Oil and Refined Petroleum Product Prices and Expenditures . Canadian production growth has come primarily from oil sands development, more costly Canada are large, but long development times and high extraction costs mean that only as it has several advantages over competing fuels and technologies.
31 Aug 2009 “¢ As far as extraction methods go, the ones used in the Alberta oil sands are among the most carbon-intensive. When compared to the average 19 Apr 2019 20 Big Advantages and Disadvantages of Petroleum allow us to drill through the surface of the ocean too to extract what is needed. Soap products, computers, heating and cooling needs, and many other items that we The Orinoco oil sands in Venezuela and the Canada oil sands region are both 5 Oct 2018 Petroleum, or crude oil, is a fossil fuel and nonrenewable source of energy. When petroleum products such as gasoline are burned for energy, they “Mud” is the drilling fluid used to create boreholes for extracting oil and Processing bitumen from tar sands is also a complex, expensive procedure. 20 Feb 2015 crude sources, including the Alberta oil sands and several geologic shale plays, crude oil extraction, refining of oil produced in the region and and petroleum products – a broader category that also includes refined oils
21 Advantages and Disadvantages of Petroleum Petroleum is a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that we can harvest from rock strata. Once we extract this fluid, refiners can use it to produce several different fuels, including diesel oil, kerosene, and gasoline.