Exactly, what is the difference between a "oil well" and a "gas well".?
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One produces Crude Oil in liquid form the other produces Natural Gas from underground caverns and such. Infact Natural gas (when mined) has no smell at all. The scent you smell at home is an additive used as a warning. I work in the oil field drilling industry.
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Good question, oil and gasoline will both be floating above the water, but which one is going to be floating on top the other is a hard one, i'm still searching....\n\n\nI can't find nothing on oil and gasoline, my guess would be that gasoline will float on top of everything.\n\nSo, water then oil then gasoline. It might depend on type of oil too. The best way to find out is to get a clear jar, get some oil and gasoline, see which one floats!\n\nAnd here's some concepts of buoyancy nad density, also gravity...\n\nAny object placed in water has to contend with two forces, gravity and buoyancy. Gravity is the natural pull of an object toward the center of the earth. Gravity tends to pull a boat down into the water. So what keeps it from sinking? Buoyancy acts as an opposite force to gravity and pushes the object up. Archimedes' Principle says that an object immersed in water is buoyed up by a force equal to the density of the water it displaces. The buoyancy of an object is dependent on its density and the density of the material surrounding it. Density is the relationship between mass and volume.
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It’s a pressure system, using pressure the gas or oil is moved through the system, that’s why you cant have any leaks, otherwise you lose that pressure, and gas and or oil is pumped through the system properly. Also why you have an “Oil pressure” light or picture etc, on the dash, its moved by pressure, and the loss of pressure can lead to major problems.
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Natural gas is too hard to Compress, so, it is collected straight from the ground and pumped to homes. When a Gas field is found they just use a pipe like they do oil to tap into the Gas pocket. Butane is a gas that can be compressed it liquefies under pressure, that why a Lighter looks like it has Liquid in it, you CAN NOT do this with natural gas. This a easy way to explain it.
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Fluids at rest and in motion have different pressures and different equation. Energy is being created in motion so energy is being lost as heat.
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They all mean roughly the same thing.\n\nPetroleum pool = discrete accumulation of petroleum under a single pressure system\n(as normally defined in Petroleum Mining Codes contracts - e.g. www.timorseada.org/JPDA_Interim_PMC_2_April_03.pdf)\n\n\nHere are some answers from http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/ though that will help you.\n\nPetroleum pools are also known as oil pools... and are also known as oil fields which is "a subsurface oil accumulation. An oil field can consist of one or more oil pools or distinct reservoirs within a single large trap. The term "pool" can create the erroneous impression that oil fields are immense caverns filled with oil, instead of rock filled with small oil-filled pores."\n\n\nOil field = An accumulation, pool or group of pools of oil in the subsurface. An oil field consists of a reservoir in a shape that will trap hydrocarbons and that is covered by an impermeable or sealing rock. Typically, industry professionals use the term with an implied assumption of economic size.
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Why arn't gas companies allowed to make a profit? There are other industries that make more than the oil industry.  They have to make money for their stockholders just like every other company out there.
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Oil wells are typically much deeper than groundwater, so I would not expect most wells to fill with groundwater (and the original oil would float if they were in contact).\n\nIf the oil field was in direct contact with ocean water, the oil would have flowed out and been replaced with water already.\n\nWhat is likely to happen is that the ground will sink as the liquid is removed, just like most ground "subsides" when water is pumped out of it.
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They are both redox reactions. They are exact opposite reactions. One is anabolic the other is catabolic. Both are essential to life. Both give off a gas.
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Question -   HOW MANY GAL.OF CRUDE OIL IN A BARREL? HOW MANY GAL OF GAS\nDOES THAT EQUAL?\n-----------------\nThere are 42 gallons / barrel of crude oil. The conversion to gasoline\ndepends upon several factors -- refining efficiency, product mix desired by\nthe refiner, quality of the crude to name a few. The following sites provide\nadditional info.\n\n http://www.petroleum.org/petrokids/petroperbbl.htm\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99675.htm\n\nVince Calder\n=====================================================\nA barrel contains 42 gallons.  After refining, it makes about 19.5 gallons\nof gasoline in addition to numerous other products such as heating oil..\n\nIf you can get to the web,\nhttp://www.petroleum.org/petrokids/petroperbbl.htm\nhas many interesting numbers related to your question.\n\nBest, Dick Plano, Professor of Physics emeritus, Rutgers University\n=====================================================\nBernie,\n\nMost of us know that the standard measure for petrol products, crude, light\nsweet etc... is the BBL (barrel).  This is exactly equal to 42 gallons.\nWhether it is milk or molten uranium or gas or crude oil...1 BBL (barrel) is\n42 gallon (US)\n\nI do not know the exact ratio of octane 87 gas to brent oil, light sweet\nblend, or crude oil.  This is because "OIL" is made up of many constituents.\nIt has many long changed hydrocarbons that determine its energy content.\nRefineries of the OPEC nations, or just in general already know this from\nyears of experience.  In order to not waste any of the crude oil, chemical\nengineers will perform hydro-cracking which will cleave the longer (CRUDEr)\noil chains into smaller more volatile compounds.  Why is this done?  This is\ndone so that while distilling the "OIL" engineers will not be able to\nseparate the oil with greater ease and efficiency.\n\nSomeone once told me that there was a rule of thumb for how many gallons of\n"gasoline" you can get from one gallon of crude.  I don't wish to repeat it\nsince I don't recall which blend it was for.  I hope that I've helped you\nsome even though I haven't fully answered your 2nd question.\n\nRegards,\nDarin\n=====================================================\nMy old CRC chemical handbook has it that a US petroleum barrel is exactly 42 gallons.\n\nCrude oil gets changed into petroleum gas, gasoline, oils, tar, and asphalt.\nThe total volume of the non-gaseous products will be not much different than the crude \nvolume.\n\nWhat percentage do they refine into gasoline? I don't know yet.\nAnything from 30-70% wouldn't surprise me.\nThey have both choices and pressures as to what product to make from crude.\n( See http://www.oiltycoon.com/htp/refining.html)\nA person at www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33287 says it's about 2/3.\nThe other product made from the remaining 1/3 of a barrel gets sold too.\n\nSo that would be roughly 28 gallons of gasoline from each barrel of oil.
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Propane is cleaner, Oil is cheaper but not in the long run\npropane is easier to store. burns hotter so it heats faster.\ngo with Propane
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If pols could control gas prices, it would always be cheap.\nIf oil cos could control prices it would always be expensive.\nWhat can we conclude from this?
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We had a debate about this in our English class. \nFinal ruling: they mean the same exact thing. There are slight differences (one means an object can self-combust into flame in certian circumstances), but there's not a difference worth noting!
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFirst, gasoline is not a simple chemical compound like water or ethanol. It is a mixture of hundreds of different compounds. The reason for this is that gasoline is made from crude oil. Crude oil, or petroleum, is made up of thousands of different compounds, and the exact compounds present and their relative amounts differ depending on where the petroleum is produced. (For example, oil produced in West Texas differs remarkably from oil produced in the Middle East.) After the oil is produced (or taken out of the ground via oil wells), it is shipped to an oil refinery, where it is separated into different products, including gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel, among others. \n\n\nThe separation of the oil takes place in a process called distillation. (Note that there are other processes which occur in a refinery as well, but the simplification to consider just distillation is not too far off.) In distillation, the oil is heated until it starts to boil. Some of the thousands of chemical compounds that make up the oil start to boil at low temperatures, and some do not boil until the petroleum has been heated up to higher temperatures. The different products (such as gasoline) that come out of a refinery are defined by their boiling temperatures during distillation. The lightest compounds (those that boil at the lowest temperature) become aviation gasoline, the next lightest become automotive gasoline, the next lightest become lightweight solvents and so on. In order of increasing boiling point, some other categories of refinery products are jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, lubricants, greases, and asphalt. Gasoline is typically made from the fraction of the crude oil that boils at temperatures between about 50 degrees Celsius and 200 degrees Celsius. \n\n\nSo, we can't say for sure exactly what compounds are present in gasoline, but we can define gasoline to some extent. First, it is made up almost entirely of hydrocarbons, which are molecules made up of carbon and hydrogen. (Some of the compounds present in gasoline also contain small amounts of other elements, including sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and some trace metals.) Next, those hydrocarbons which make up most of gasoline boil at temperatures between about 50 and 200 degrees Celsius (120 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit). This means that these compounds are mostly those hydrocarbons that have between 6 and 12 carbon atoms in each molecule. A good average is probably octane, which has eight carbon atoms and 18 hydrogen atoms and is written C8H18. \n\n\nsource:http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/apr2001/987004809.Ch.r.html
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There are only two. One is that oil is a very concentrated form of energy. Having cars run on gas is far more feasible than powering them by, say, burning wood. You just don't get enough of a return on the use of that type of energy. Second is that it is relatively easy to access, at least thus far. One of the things that will happen as oil becomes more scarce is that we will have to try to drill for oil that is in much less accessible places, such as the north sea, or in much deeper deposits. There used to be a third advantage - that it seemed plentiful, if not inexhaustible. This advantage has been proven to be a myth.
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Usually the geology of the rocks prevents the oil sepage.  oil is normally found in large reservoirs formed by permeable rocks deep underground.  They are capped by a layer of impervious rocks, this prevents the oil and any natural gas present from escaping.
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GAS! It's worth more and gets used just as much....