| Of course, everyone realizes petroleum products are | | | | obtained from the refining of crude oil called naphtha is |
| used in the gasoline we fuel our vehicles and in the | | | | one of the basic feedstocks, Petrochemical |
| heating oil we use to keep our homes warm. But did | | | | feedstocks also include products recovered from |
| you know petroleum-based components are in | | | | natural gas, and refinery gases (ethane, propane, and |
| medicines, food, plastics, and even in the clothes we | | | | butane). Petrochemical feedstocks are converted to |
| wear? Not only is petroleum a source for fuel, but it | | | | basic chemical building blocks and intermediates, such |
| has many other uses. | | | | as ethylene, propylene, normal- and iso-butylenes, |
| Petrolatum or better known as petroleum jelly is | | | | butadiene, and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, |
| sometimes blended with paraffin wax and used in | | | | and xylene. |
| medicines and in many toiletries and healing | | | | All these chemicals are in turn used to produce plastics |
| moisturizers. Paints, lacquers, and printing inks all have | | | | found in our everyday objects, synthetic rubber used |
| within them petroleum-based solvents to make them | | | | to make things more pliable and stretchy, synthetic |
| flow better. Besides your automobile engine, all | | | | fibers found our clothing to make them more |
| machinery, like the engine in your lawn mower, need | | | | comfortable, drugs to help us fight diseases, and |
| lubricating oils and grease made from petroleum to | | | | detergents to make our cleaning process easier. |
| keep them running smoothly. Petroleum (or paraffin) | | | | There are three major categories for petroleum-based |
| wax is used in packaging, candles, matches, shoe | | | | products:(fuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel,(non-fuel |
| polish, and even candy making. Asphalt we useto pave | | | | products such as solvents and lubricating oils, and |
| our driveways, roads and airfields is a byproduct of | | | | feedstocks such as naphtha. Petroleum-based |
| petroleum. Asphalt also is used to surface canals, | | | | products, especially motor gasoline, distillate (diesel) fuel, |
| dams, and reservoirs. We can find this in the linoleum | | | | and jet fuel, provide virtually all of the energy |
| we cover our floors with and in the shingles we put on | | | | consumed in the transportation sector. Transportation |
| our roofs. | | | | remains the greatest single use of petroleum. The |
| Petroleum coke is used as a raw material for many | | | | industrial sector is the second largest petroleum |
| carbon and graphite products. These products include | | | | consumption, and the residential/commercial including |
| furnace electrodes and liners and the anodes used in | | | | the electric utility sectors account for the remaining |
| the production of aluminum. Aluminum is used in the | | | | petroleum consumption. Because we depend on oil |
| construction of just about all of our everyday | | | | and petroleum-based products so greatly, companies |
| appliances. | | | | like Triple Diamond Energy Corporation concentrate |
| Since the 1920's, petroleum has been used as a | | | | their efforts in continuing to provide it and making it |
| feedstock in the production of petrochemicals. A liquid | | | | readily available. |