The Oil

okey this time I will post about oil ..why my thoughts to post about petroleum? because recently I was assigned to write a paper about the oil, so I took the initiative to post this on my blog .. for more details, read the following article ...
Petroleum (English: petroleum, from Latin petrus - rock and oleum - oil), also dubbed as the black gold, is a thick liquid, dark brown or greenish flammable, which is in the upper layers of the few areas in the crust earth. Petroleum consists of a complex mixture of different hydrocarbons, the majority of the alkane series, but vary in appearance, composition, and purity. Oil extracted from oil wells in the oil mines. Location of the wells is obtained after going through the process of geological studies, sediment analysis, character and structure of the source, and a variety of other studies. After that, the Earth will be processed in oil refineries where oil and split the results based on the boiling point to produce a wide range of fuels, from gasoline and kerosene to asphalt and other chemical reagents needed to make plastics and medicines. Oil is used to produce a wide variety of goods and material human needs.