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1. How much oil is consumed daily in the US in barrels? In gallons? How much of each barrel is used to produce gasoline? Diesel?
2. What are the four primary tasks of an oil refinery? What is the primary purpose of these stages?
3. In a few sentences, explain how distillation separates crude oil into different hydrocarbons.
4. What are the main products of crude fractionation? You should be able to list seven.
5. What is one of the main contaminants removed from crude oil? How is the collected contaminant used?
6. What is the purpose of cracking? What does it do to the oil?
7. What are some uses of byproducts of petroleum production that were accidentally discovered or used to produce new products?
8. Why are petroleum and propane more convenient fuels to deliver to consumers?
9. What is the most prolific byproduct of petroleum production?
10. How much of crude oil production is devoted to producing plastics?