The oil and gas industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry that’s dominated our world for over a century. From fueling our vehicles and planes to heating our homes, the industry has become the largest source of energy. Frequently it’s a hot topic even in politics,...
Scotland is making plans to reach net-zero by 2050, and Royal Dutch Shell, commonly referred to as Shell, is planning to stand by and support this goal. In December 2019, Steve Phimister, Shell UK’s upstream vice president, wrote an opinion piece for Energy Vice...
For most of the world, oil is a necessary part of life. The United States imports much of its oil and the majority of it is converted into other products for people to use, such as gas or heating oil. On average, the U.S. consumes about 19.4...
We all know that oil is an important resource. We know that there is a lot of controversy regarding where we obtain our oil. But one thing we don’t focus on enough is how the oil is transformed from the way it looks right out of the ground, to the gasoline that we put...
Read on for a step-by-step educational breakdown of the basic process of getting oil into above-ground wells! Where oil comes from: We get oil from the remains of small animals and plants that had died in the ancient seas between the times estimated from...
