Hydrocarbons Kit
Product Code : SCL-CLE-12929
Petroleum and natural gas are found in the Earth's
subsurface with the tools of petroleum geology and are a significant source of
fuel and raw materials for the production of organic chemicals. The extraction
of liquid hydrocarbon fuel from sedimentary basins is integral to modern energy
development. Hydrocarbons are mined from tar sands and oil shale, and
potentially extracted from sedimentary methane hydrates. These reserves require
distillation and upgrading to produce synthetic crude and petroleum.
Hydrocarbons are economically important because major fossil fuels such as
coal, petroleum and natural gas, and its derivatives such as plastics,
paraffin, waxes, solvents and oils are hydrocarbons.
Kit contains:
- Cap rock: mudstone
- Reservoir rock (limestone)
- Reservoir rock (limestone): oolitic
- Cap rock A: shale
- Lignite sample
- Anthracite coal
- Bituminous coal
- Source Rock (oil shale Kimmeridge)
- Reservoir rock (sandstone)
- Cap rock B: gypsum
- Peat sample
- Oil tar sand, crude oil
