Originally published on marketwatch.com
It is no secret that oil is a daily necessity in many areas of life. This raw material is utilized for hundreds of things, including plastics, bubble gum, fertilizers, chemical products, medicines, gel capsules, paints, detergents, and many more. The oil industry also provides thousands of jobs.
"For many manufacturing countries, oil is essential for revenue production. Even after the worldwide coronavirus crisis affected the market and consumer demands decreased, the need for oil continues," said petroleum entrepreneur Adam Ferrari.
Adam Ferrari is an accomplished chemical engineer and is the founder of the mineral acquisition company, Ferrari Energy. With an educational background as a chemical engineer, Adam was encouraged to learn more about minerals and the inner workings of petroleum engineering.
Since the mid-1950s, oil has been the world's most important origin of energy. In 2019, oil services and stocks were the dependent factors for ninety percent of the supply chain of all industrially manufactured products.
Today, the oil fields discovered before 1970 still constitute seventy percent of the oil supply. Petroleum, also known as crude oil, is deemed a fossil fuel. Scientists also say that petroleum is a nonrenewable energy source. Similar to other raw materials such as coal and natural gas, oil developed from the residue of ancient marine organisms such as algae, bacteria, and plants. The organic remains are transformed into carbon-rich substances, or raw materials, after undergoing immense heat and pressure over several million years.
Oil is seen as an affordable energy source and is measured, priced, and sold by the barrel, each barrel being about one hundred to two hundred liters, or twenty-six to fifty-three gallons. Oil is collected through oil reserves, which are petroleum reservoirs confined by rock deep underneath the planet.
The majority of oil is utilized for transportation in the sky, on the road, and over water. Approximately a quarter of the world's oil goes towards producing energy for heat and chemical plants and other industries. When taking a closer look into the day-to-day use of oil, the raw material is found almost everywhere. Oil can be found in schools, healthcare, homes, retail, cooking, construction, and gardening, to name a few places. The plastics found in prosthetic legs are even made feasible by oil.
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