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An oil field is a tract of land used for extracting petroleum, otherwise known as crude oil, from the ground. Although some contest the exact origin of oil, most consider petroleum a fossil fuel created from dead organic material often found in ancient seabeds thousands of meters below the surface of the earth.

BREAKING DOWN Oil Field
An oil field consists of a reservoir in the rocky strata of the Earth which traps hydrocarbons. An impermeable or sealing rock layer covers the reservoir. Typically, industry professionals use the term “oil field” with an implied assumption of economic size.

There are more than 65,000 oil fields around the world, many of the largest located in the Middle East. There have been tens of thousands of oil fields have been discovered. However, the concentration of 94-percent of known reserves is in fewer than 1500 major oil fields. The locations of oil fields have been the origin of past geopolitical conflicts and environmental concerns.

Complications of Establishing an Oil Field
Establishing an oil fields in Pakistan can be a herculean feat of logistics. It can include establishing the infrastructure necessary for what can be decades of extraction, production, and maintenance. Oil companies often contain entire divisions that are responsible for infrastructure construction and specialized services which are required to operate a profitable oil field. Oil fields are dotted with a variety of extraction equipment which includes drilling rigs, offshore platforms, pump jacks, and more. There may also be exploratory wells probing the edges, pipelines to transport the oil elsewhere, and support facilities.

In recent years, new technologies in oil exploration and production have dramatically increased the productivity levels of oil fields. These include horizontal drilling, hydraulic drilling, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the use of proppant. Proppant is a mixture of water and sand used to keep the fractured pathways to the wellbore clear.

These technologies, coupled with advances such as seismic technology, helped to increase oil field efficiency rates and contributed to a glut in oil supply, which drove oil prices down. Companies that work oil fields remain focused on technological development to lower their production costs in the current price-pressured environment.

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The crude oil is a great resource that is used all over the world every day. In this blog post, we will discuss the crude oil types that are used in the markets all over the world. These types have to be understood so that you can look up the various filtration modes that these crude oil products use.

Following are the four types that we are discussing:

Light Distillates:

The light distillates are the OIL FIELD ASSISTANT that have high volatility, and that means they are easily combustible and will also evaporate if left in the open air. They are considered the highest quality of oils produced in the crude oil extraction process and are the lightest in chemical composition. The oils such as Kerosene, light and heavy Naphtha, Petroleum Spirit, Petroleum Naphtha, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Petroleum Ether are all forms of the light distillates.

Middle Distillates:

The grade 1 and grade 2 fuel oils and diesel that is a part of the middle distillates category include the usual domestic fuels, light, crude marine gas oils, and similar diesel-based products. These oils are also considerably volatile but are less volatile than their lighter counterparts. They are also comparatively less evaporative and their fumes are toxic as well.

Medium Oils:

This is the most extensive category of crude oil with a lot of leftover forms of crude oil being used on more everyday purposes. These are less volatile oils with an increased toxicity level and all the usual oil spills in the oceans are mainly these forms of oils.

Heavy Crude Oils:

Heavy crude oils are also known as heavy fuel oils and include grades 3, 4, 5 and 6 fuel OIL ADDITIVES also known as Bunker B & C. The intermediate heavy marine fuels are included in this list. There is minimal evaporation of these oils and they are highly toxic in nature. They have a strong tendency to be toxic for fish, fowl and fur-bearing creatures. They also cause long term contamination of water and soil that they come across.

There are more than 160 different forms of crude oils but they are usually all falling in one of these categories.

We would love to know what you find out on the purification of all of these crude oils.

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