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How Oil Drilling Works
A brief description of how Oil Drilling works from HowStuffWorks.com. Oil exploration, preparing to drill, procedures, operation and extraction techniques, hazard are all covered.
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Edinburgh Anisotropy Project
Research team investigating the application of seismic anisotropy to the needs of the oil industry.
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Oil and Gas Exploration
Pupil resources contain background information on the formation and extraction of oil and gas reserves. A review of teaching resources is included.
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Fossil Fuels - Coal, Oil and Natural Gas
There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs - hence the name fossil fuels.
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Why do rainbow-like colours appear on the surface of oil?
Non-mathematical explanation of colours seen in an oil film. Nice diagram and accompanying photograph.
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How Oil Refining Works
A brief description of how Oil Refining works. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. Refining, fractional distillation, chemical treatments (cracking, unification and alteration), ...
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Fossil Fuels - Coal, Oil and Natural Gas
A quick introduction to fossil fuels.
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