• What do petroleum and natural gas have in common?
• Describe an impermeable rock where oil and natural gas deposits are found?
• How does an oil platform work?
- Petroleum and natural gas are both fossil fuels that are formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
- An impermeable rock where oil and natural gas deposits are found is usually a shale rock formation. Shale rocks have very low permeability, meaning that they do not allow oil and gas to flow easily through them and instead trap the hydrocarbons within the rock.
- An oil platform, also known as an offshore drilling rig, is a structure that is used to extract oil and natural gas from beneath the seabed. It typically consists of a large platform on top of the water that houses drilling equipment and living quarters for workers. The platform is connected to undersea wells through a network of pipelines, allowing the oil and gas to be extracted and transported to shore for processing and refining.