Oil is one of the most sought after minerals in the world.
Oil is one of the most sought after minerals in the world. With its help, cars drive, trains fly and motors move. It would seem, what could be better and more useful? However, it is oil that causes an unprecedented appearance to the environment. The extraction of "black gold" from the bowels of the earth leads to...
Consequences of the oil spill
Oil spills often have enormous environmental consequences, both immediate and long-term. The effects of the oil spill have been felt for decades. Oil spilled from damaged pipelines, tankers and production units destroys everything that it “touches”. Oil is carried over the surface of the water for many kilometers, and when it reaches the coastline, it...
Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform is an accident that occurred on April 20, 2010, 80 kilometers from the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Macondo field. The oil spill that followed the accident became the largest in the history of the United States...
Interesting about oil
One of the early theories of the origin of oil suggested that this black substance was nothing more than ... whale urine that settles on the bottom of the oceans, and then penetrates into the earth's interior through underground channels. In the study of the origin of oil, there is also an alien trace. At the...
