Oil: Classroom Activities

Activity	Concepts
The Uses and Refinement of Petroleum	Petroleum products, heat, compounds, chemistry, separation, refinement.
Consumption of Oil in the United States	Energy, oil use over time, demand, graphs, production and consumption of oil.
United States Oil and Gas Resources	Regional geology, sedimentary basins, oil and gas basins, spatial variation, transportation and economics.
Exploring for Petroleum	Regional geology, stratigraphy, sampling, bore holes, drill cores, density, reservoir rocks, and economics.
Permeability, Porosity, and Oil Source Rocks	Sediments, permeability, porosity, fluids, rock units, hydrocarbon reservoirs.