Crude Awakening By Emma Davy
Did you know that oil is the most important traded item between countries?Lots of things we use today are made from oil. Scientists say we only have about 2,600,000,000,000 barrels left in the ground. Did you know one barrel can hold 42 gallons of oil? We also have oil shale. Oil shale is rock with oil in it. It must be heated up to a very hot temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit to give up its oil. When we pump oil we get the first half out easy,then the other half gets hard and is more expensive to get out of the ground. According to Paul Roberts we have already gotten out all of the easy oil, which is oil in places that are easy to get to. Since we have gotten it all we will have to drill in the Caspian Sea, Siberia and the frozen Tundra. This is what we learned from the Crude Awakening article.
This is a picture of oil shale.
