Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 23

What are the two key concepts for this section What is crude oil (petroleum) , and how are oil deposits detected and removed What percentages of the commercial energy used in the world and in the United States are provided by conventional crude oil What is the peak production for an oil well and for the world oil deposits What is refining What are petrochemicals and why are such chemicals important What countries are the world's three largest producers of oil and what countries are the three largest consumers