1. Module 5

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Module 5 Lesson 5

Module 5—Hydrocarbons and the Petroleum Industry

Lesson Summary

 

In Lesson 5 you considered the following questions:

  • What is crude oil?
  • What is oil sand?
  • How is crude oil refined?
  • Why is oil sand processed?
  • What products come from crude and other oil types?
  • How is the oil industry affected by economics?

You learned about conventional and synthetic crude oil and its sources, and you learned about the chemical and physical processes used to refine oil.

 

The crude oil industry produces gasoline, diesel, liquid petroleum gases, kerosene, waxes, tars, lubricating oils, and asphalt. As you will see in Module 6, other industries use different fractions from crude oil to create a wide range of products from plastics to cosmetics.