History & properties:
The commercial drilling of crude oil by Edwin Drake in 1859 was first seen as an
opportunity for kerosene to compete with whale oil in the illumination market.
However, technical progress in petroleum refining from simple distillation (boiling the
crude oil in a vacuum) to the extraction of gasoline and other light products (via more
sophisticated thermal and catalytic cracking and reforming) for transportation and
heating purposes led to rapid demand growth for crude oil.
More information:
Since there are more than 130 different crude oil grades, refineries can be optimised
to produce "cuts" or fractions that are best suited to the characteristics of the crude
oil being run and the type of products that are most in demand in the local markets.
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