what is crude oil exactly it’s a mix of different hydrocarbons a different length
these molecules contained both hydrogen and carbon and the comment all kinds of sizes and configurations depending on the mix of hydrocarbons you might hear someone call a kind of oil like sweet crude or heavy sour crude heavy crude it contains more larger molecules been like crude has little to no so for no we don’t use oil in it’s crude for we refine that’s how this works starting with the grab bag of molecules you keep the crude up until it turns into gases the pipe those papers into what’s called a fractional distillation column at the vaporizes it cools and different substances depending on the boiling point contention to liquids so up near the top you’ve got gasoline kerosene would later molecules and the dow near the bottom you’ve got lubricating oil and heavy gasoline there’s some more processing finish up the products but that’s the basics to what comes out of it let’s break down one barrel of oil but forty five gallons in the largest fraction becomes gasoline 19 whole gallant in addition 11 gallons become diesel fuel week ever get checks four gallons and every barrel good reviews from few after that easter getting into a bunch of weird get still valuable stuff
petroleum coke liquefied refinery gases asphalt lubrication and other feedstocks