The word "Brent" in Brent Crude - where does this come from, and what does it refer to?
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It refers to crude oil that comes from the Brent Oilfield, but I couldnt guess why the Oilfield is called Brent, a local connection I would guess
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fractal distalation.... crude oil is placed in a "distailler and at certain temps certain products come off the crude. Lightest to heaviest. In the end you are left with a hodge podge of left overs ... tar
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Its called \nO peration\nI raqi\nL iberation.......OIL
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This is an acrostic. My great-grandfather made one for his daughter, my grandmother, before he was killed in the Civil War.\n\n\nP.S. It is not an acronym, which is a word formed from the first letters in a series of words - such as OPEC for Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies.
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Read this please: http://www.chevron.com/products/learning_center/crude/
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Arbusto (which means shrub.. or little shrub) was a failed energy, drilling company started and run by our illustrious leader.. The big "W". It failed  of course, but not before a whole lot of Saudi investment money got washed through it... how about Harken energy?
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Your mistake is basic: you're presuming that the oil in the ground belongs to America.  It doesn't.  It belongs to ExxonMobil, BP, etc.  Think they'd want to lower profits to benefit us?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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1377, from Anglo-Norm. brocour "small trader," \nfrom Anglo-Fr. abrokur "retailer of wine, tapster," \nperhaps Port. alborcar "barter," but more likely O.Fr. brocheor, from brochier "to broach, tap, pierce (a keg)," from broche "pointed tool" (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of "wine dealer," hence "retailer, middleman, agent."
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I believe that Persian Gulf was the original historical term.  With the rise of Arab Nationalist thinking in the 1960s, the Arabs used the term Arabian Gulf... al-Khaleej al-Arabee\n\nThe United Nations takes the view that Persian Gulf is the appropriate terminology to use
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Any sort of oil product...Gasoline, Jet fuel, Axle Grease, Kerosene, Asphalt...ect.  The basic idea is simple, you take this crude oil out of the ground (It used to be swamps and such 120 Million years ago) and then heat it up without oxygen.  As you let the temperature come down, specific oil based products condense out.  The graphic on the accompanying page shows crude oil being heated and added to the column.  As the "boiled" gaseous crude oil travels up the column, the temperature decreases, so different products condense out and are pumped away.  (same idea as water condensing on your mirror after a shower---the water was hot, then it touched a cooler mirror and turned back into a liquid)
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Could this be it? It was written on the right date and has the words "shortage" and "oil" in the title.\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2003/nf2003041_2516_db053.htm\nHope I've helped.
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Oil is formed by the compression of many types of matter over several millions of years. It is ultimatly rocks, fossils, plants, and microorganisms which have been compressed and over several thousends of years have reacted with each other to form oil.\n\nI suspect that the middle east is the larged oil resource because it is the easiest place to dig for these fossils. That area of the world is very 'dense' landwise which contributes as well. There are indeed more reason to this as well, but I'm not 100% sure on anything else!
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Supply/demand mostly.  Futures speculation on the future of it at least.  Uncertainly over future supply.\n\nSupply meaning OPEC and those countries that supply a large portion of the world's oil.  Demand meaning the growth of the industrial base of India/China.  The large demand of American consumers with their vehicles.
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The formation of Hydrocarbons (Oil, Gas and Coal) from its constituent organic matter is called 'Maturation'. The length of maturation depends on the temperature - which is usually controlled by the depth of burial. As the source rocks for the oil are buried they get heated up. Gradually, water then gas and finally oil seeps out of the source rock. Commonly the maturation of source rock in the North Sea has taken between 10 and 20 Million years at the required depth. This doesn't mean that these rocks formed 10 to 20 million years ago! It means they where at the maturation depth for 10 to 20 million years. In fact the source rocks in the North Sea (Brent Group) formed in the Kimmeridgian within the Jurassic about 150Myrs/ago. The effect of the opening of the Atlantic in the Cretaceous caused the basins of the North Sea to form causing the source rocks to go deeper. Oil can be over matured and if left at to long a temperature it can be distroyed. The oil must be able to migrate away from the 'source' area to a 'reservoir' area which is at a stable temperature.
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Crude oil is composed of a mix of molecules composed of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms in many different forms. These can range from simple compounds like methane (CH4) or ethane (C2H6) to long complicated molecules such as paraffins like C8H18, also known as octane that is used to rate motor fuels. \n\nThe initial source of the crude oil is the accumulation of the dead bodies of phytoplankton and zooplankton which are microscopic plants and animals that live in the sea and fresh water lakes. Adding to this organic matter that accumulates on the sea floor is the material that is carried into the ocean by rivers, such as pollen, spores, and plant material. To be preserved, all of this organic matter must fall into a zone of the water that is low in oxygen, otherwise it will decay rather than be preserved. Mud and silt coming from rivers will often bury this material before it can be consumed by living organisms. Near the mouths of rivers there are often rapid rates of deposition of mud and silt that will bury organic material, and over time it may be buried by several miles of sediment. For example, the Mississippi River Delta, which is a prolific oil producing area, has deposited sediments several miles thick over the last 66 million years. \n\nAs these deposits of organic matter are buried deeper and deeper they begin to warm from the heat of the earth's interior. When they reach a temperature of about 140 degrees F, they begin to undergo "catagenesis" which is a molecular change that makes oil. If they reach a temperature of about 250 degree F, they will begin to form more natural gas than oil. If they get too hot it is possible to change them to graphite, and no oil or gas will be produced. \n\nIn other types of depositional environments the plants and animals that become oil also form the rock. Carbonate mudstone (which is simply a type of limestone) of the Hanifa Formation in the Middle East formed much of the oil in Saudi Arabia. These carbonate mudstones  are composed of huge accumulations of lime muds made from the breakdown of marine algaes and other organisms. These deposits of the remains of marine organisms also must undergo burial and and heating by the deep earth to generate oil and gas. \n\nSo when you burn oil, you are really burning solar energy that was stored by plants and animals thousands or millions of years ago and buried in the earth. \n\nEvery time I answer this question someone comes along and points out that there may be oil that is not from living organisms. Thomas Gold, a respected physicist at Cornell proposed that oil may be abiotic; that is just another type of deposit of the earth. This may in fact be possible, but if it is, it is likely to be a very minor source of the oil on Earth. The reasons are complicated, but the fact that the rocks where Gold predicted this abiotic oil should be found do not contain oil is pretty conclusive proof that this type of oil is not significant, if it exists at all. \n\nHere is my previous answer to this question:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AqkzP9amgCudYabOz20w2YIjzKIX?qid=1006022109950
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFirst, gasoline is not a simple chemical compound like water or ethanol. It is a mixture of hundreds of different compounds. The reason for this is that gasoline is made from crude oil. Crude oil, or petroleum, is made up of thousands of different compounds, and the exact compounds present and their relative amounts differ depending on where the petroleum is produced. (For example, oil produced in West Texas differs remarkably from oil produced in the Middle East.) After the oil is produced (or taken out of the ground via oil wells), it is shipped to an oil refinery, where it is separated into different products, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel, among others. \n\n\nThe separation of the oil takes place in a process called distillation. (Note that there are other processes which occur in a refinery as well, but the simplification to consider just distillation is not too far off.) In distillation, the oil is heated until it starts to boil. Some of the thousands of chemical compounds that make up the oil start to boil at low temperatures, and some do not boil until the petroleum has been heated up to higher temperatures. The different products (such as gasoline) that come out of a refinery are defined by their boiling temperatures during distillation. The lightest compounds (those that boil at the lowest temperature) become aviation gasoline, the next lightest become automotive gasoline, the next lightest become lightweight solvents and so on. In order of increasing boiling point, some other categories of refinery products are jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, lubricants, greases, and asphalt. Gasoline is typically made from the fraction of the crude oil that boils at temperatures between about 50 degrees Celsius and 200 degrees Celsius. \n\n\nSo, we can't say for sure exactly what compounds are present in gasoline, but we can define gasoline to some extent. First, it is made up almost entirely of hydrocarbons, which are molecules made up of carbon and hydrogen. (Some of the compounds present in gasoline also contain small amounts of other elements, including sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and some trace metals.) Next, those hydrocarbons which make up most of gasoline boil at temperatures between about 50 and 200 degrees Celsius (120 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit). This means that these compounds are mostly those hydrocarbons that have between 6 and 12 carbon atoms in each molecule. A good average is probably octane, which has eight carbon atoms and 18 hydrogen atoms and is written C8H18. \n\n\nsource:http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2001/987004809.Ch.r.html
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Paraffin is actually the final product to come from petroleum after a distillation process involving steam that separates the different components, or chains of hydrocarbons from the raw petroleum.  This is a process of distillation, separating, filtering and cleaning.