What is petroleum and origin of petroleum with two concepts

Introduction :

Many useful materials on which modern life depends are produced by petrochemical industry, such as fuels, solvent, lubricants, polymers, detergents etc. In petrochemical industry these substance are separated from petroleum by the process of fractional distillation. So in this article I will teach you about Petroleum and origin of petroleum. Okay lets go studing What is petroleum and origin of petroleum with two concepts. 

What is petroleum and origin of petroleum with two concepts

Petroleum and origin of petroleum

Petroleum :
Naming :

The word "petroleum" is a combination of two Latin words "Petra" means "Rock" and "Oleum" means "Oil". It means that petroleum means rock oil.

It is also called crude oil. It is also called minerals oil. It is also called liquid gold.

It is present as dark viscous liquid under the ground at different depths. The petroleum is mainly composed of Hydrocarbons.

Hydrocarbons :

Those compound which contains Carbon and Hydrogen are called Hydrocarbons.

Occurrence of petroleum 

Deposits of petroleum are found at about 200-1000 feet below the earth surface. The richest deposits of petroleum are located in Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates(UAE) and other Middle East contries. Russian federation and central Asian states have also rich oil deposit. Petroleum is also found in central African states such as Libya, Nigeria, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and United States of America(USA).

In Pakistan search for petroleum is being done on priority basis. Some oil is being extracted from Meyal and Tut in Pothohar areas of Punjab, Badin, and Hyderabad districts of Sindh, Kohat, and Kark district of khyber pukhtoonkhwa. 

Its composition varies according to its place of occurrence. It exists in all three states of matter.

1. Solid Form :

In the solid Form, it is called asphalt.

2. Liquid Form :

In the liquid form, it is called crude oil.

3. Gaseous Form :

In the gaseous form, it is called natural gas.

Origin of petroleum :

Nothing definite can be said about the origin of petroleum, because man is familiar with its use from ancient time. Chinese used petroleum as fuels as early as 200B.C. There are two theories about the origin of petroleum which are given below.

1. Inorganic or Abiotic origin :

This theory was put forward by a Russian chemist Mendeleev.

He proposed that steam reacted with metallic carbides at high temperature and pressure under the surface of the earth produced petroleum.

This theory did not gain popularity.

2. Organic origin :

According to this theory, the remains of plants and animals were buried under the soil millions of years ago. There dead organic matter were converted into petroleum by the action of bacteria under the influence of temperature and pressure of the earth. There deposits trapped between the layer of non-porous rock. The oil and gas thus formed could not come out and collected underground.

This theory gain popularity.

Conclusion :

From the above article we conclude that in our modern look life petroleum is very important for all world because from petroleum we get petrol. Now this world is start and as well as running on petroleum because petroleum provide us a lot of other materials Other than petrol such as diesel, lubricants, chemicals,jet fuel and waxes etc.