Petroleum"The Black Gold"

Petroleum “The BlackGold".

Petroleum is a word composed with two meanings petro(rock) and olium (oil) which shows that it is a type of rockoil.

Petroleum was formed when organisms living in the sea died and their bodies settled at the bottom of the sea, as more and more sand and clay deposited on them and  because of high pressure, absence of air over millions years ago these organisms slowly changed into petroleum.

Many useful substances are obtained from petroleum. These are termed as petrochemicals. These are used in manufacture of detergents, fibers (polyester,  nylon, acrylic) etc. Hydrogen gas obtained from natural gas is used in the production of fertilizers.

Due to its great commercial values petroleum is known as “Black Gold” and the countries which export these fuels are known as very rich nations like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran etc. Petroleum is a mixture of many constituents in it like Bitumen, Paraffin wax, kerosene, Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG), Diesel, Lubricating oil etc.

These all are very useful to us and used in our day-to-day life like LPG and Kerosene is used as fuel for homes and industry, lubrication oil is used for lubrication oil, paraffin wax is used in ointments, candles, Vaseline etc.

We can see that there are so many uses f petroleum. But, due to its increasing use day-by-day the petroleum is depleting from our earth. The latest survey shows that the petroleum is just left to use for 53 years at current production level and we must should not forget that petroleum is one of the most important non-renewable resource because it takes millions of years to form these valuable resources and that type of climate conditions also cannot be regenerated now.

So, we must take several steps to avoid the excessive use of petroleum and should reserve it for our future generations.

As we all know that these fuels also causes air pollution   and the amount of vehicles is increasing day-by-day and this lead our  environment a very bad  effect also, this can cause a great damage to , our life and future generations life also. The excessive use of  petrol and deasel  is a major cause in the depletion of ozone layer.

So, we should try to deplete the excessive use of petroleum as to save it for our future like, we should use CNG gases in place of petroleum as these are comparatively less polluting than petrol and diesel. Infact our government have even banned diesel and petrol vehicles  and suggested to use CNG gases.

Never forget that if our ancestors have saved this black gold that only we are able to use this . So, we should not be greedy and save this for our future generations.