UNIT FIVE

1. What is one of the most remarkable aspects of the petroleum industry?

it has developed the technology to increas the world supply of oil
2. What the particular technical advances have we already noted?
the great advances that have been made in drilling both deeper wells and wells
in difficult errain
3. In what area have there been spectacular technical advances?
the transportation of petroleum and petroleum products
4. Where have many oil fields been discovered?Give examples. If you know other
examples besides those given in the reading, tell what they are?
In places that are fan from the point at which the oil will be refined and used
5. What difficulties were ecountered at the first production oil well?where was that well?
At the Arctic Ocean or in the jungles on the interior slope of the amazon basin.
The difficulties well are near Titusville, Pennysylvania.
6. What method of transportation turned out to be too expensive?
The pipelines
7. What method was then tried to get the oil out? Why wasnt this very succesfu?

8. What was done when the railroad finally reached Titusville?

There were many accidents and a great dealof oil was lost
9. What experiments in transporting oil were being made at the sime time?

10. What did the pipelines take advantage of?

The fact that oil is liquid

UNIT SIX
1. In what way is the sight of a refinery bewildering?
In industrial

2. What was in entire refinery complex made up of?

of the apparatus in which petroleum is heated, cooled, presurized, and mixed
to make a products.
3. How is crude petroleum like iron ore?

4. Is there only one process through which oil passes?

no, there are several process different process through which oil can be passed
5. What is crude oil?
is a mixture of a number of different chemicals that are called hydrocarbons
6. How can the molecules of hydrocarbons differ from each other?

7. What do the lightest molecules form? What do heavier molecules form?

8. What does the mixture of crude oil contain? Give an example?

9. What else does the mixture usually contain?

10. What is common impurity in crude oil? What terms are used that describe oil with this
impurity?

UNIT SEVEN
1. Does the oil industry employ only a few people for a new jobs?
no it doesnt, it employs millions of people who do many different kinds of
work
2. Who are the people at the top?
The management people

3. Where do manya financial and clerical workers work in the oil industry?
the workers where he work at corporate or regional office
4. Who are some of the employees at the marketing level?

5. What skills are utilized by many oil industry employees? What do others require?
become managers, office workers, accountants, and salesman. The others are
distinctive to the oil industry
6. Are jobs in all phases of the oil industry the same?
no, it have many different phases of the industry
7. What is there an emphasis on through out the industry?
On scientific and technical skills
8. What are some of the problems with which petroleum engineers deal?
In refining, they may work to improve the layout and systems that are used
9. What three scientific specialities play an important part in the search for oil?
Geology, geophysics, and paleontology
10. What is necessary to qualify for work in these specialities? Where are these courses
offered?
Its necessary to have a university degree in the subject, in fact an advanced
degree is preferred

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