Oil.....

• Vocabulary Development: OIL EXPLORATION, EXTRACTION, REFINING AND TRANSPORT

  • Oil Exploration
  • Refinery
  • Geologist
  • OPEC
  • Drill
  • Oil rig
  • Bitumen
  • Refining
  • Oil bunkerer
  • Crude oil
• Oil Exploration


  The search for oil
• Refinery


  The facility where crude oil is processed into more useful products
• Geologist


  A scientist who studies the history and structure of earth as well as the processes which shape it
• OPEC

  Organisation Of Petroleum Exporting Countries - a group of countries which all produce oil and work together to sell it
• Drill


  A tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners
• Oil rig


  A structure above an oil well on land or sea that has special equipment attached to it for drilling and removing oil from the ground
• Bitumen


  This is used in road construction
• Refining


  Making a substance like petroleum, pure by removing all other substances from it
• Oil bunkerer


  A person who transports oil in vehicles with large containers
• Crude oil


  The basic oil in its raw state as it comes out of the ground
• Nigeria's economy heavily rests on Petroleum
• Coal and petroleum are examples of natural resources