Crude Oil: Analysis of Environmental Impacts and Future Prospects

This report provides an overview of crude oil, addressing its characteristics, uses, and environmental impacts. It discusses the toxicity of crude oil, its nonrenewable nature, and the potential for supply depletion. The report explores research questions related to crude oil supply, its impact on transportation and electricity production, and its influence on various aspects of modern life. It highlights key features of crude oil production, particularly in Western Australia, and discusses the environmental consequences of oil drilling and burning, including pollution and global warming. The report also examines the possibility of a world without crude oil, presenting examples of alternative fuels and technologies. It acknowledges limitations in the data and methodologies used, suggesting further research with larger sample sizes and broader data collection. The conclusion emphasizes the need for continued research into alternative energy sources and the importance of addressing the environmental challenges associated with crude oil.

Crude oil
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Introduction
 Crude oil is a normally occurring, untreated product of petroleum
 It is composed of hydrocarbon collections as well as other organic materials.
 It is a type of fossil fuel (Silvennoinen and Thorp 2016).
 Can be refined to produce necessary products like diesel, gasoline and other forms of
petrochemicals.
Crude oil is characteristically acquired by drilling, where it can be found usually
along supplementary properties, like natural gas that is lighter and consequently
sits over the crude oil in addition to saline water that is denser and sinks underneath

Issues related to Crude oil
 Crude oil is a extremely toxic to human as it is a mixture of neurotoxins, carcinogens,
hepatotoxins, mutagens, nephrotoxins, and respiratory irritants.
 Crude oil is a nonrenewable. Hence excess use by human would cause to the end of this
sources (Abbasian et al. 2016)

Research questions
 Are we running out of crude oil supplies?

 Petroleum and diesel runs all the transport in the world
 Fossil fuel and petroleum are also used in electricity production (White 2016).
 Food, cloths, computers, mobile phones all depends directly or indirectly on crude oil
 The loss of oil would make a deep and shattering effect on the human civilisation
Key features

 Western Australia is considered to be the Australia's leading crude oil producer and condensate
producing State. It has exceeded Victoria, where the production from of oil takes place from the
Gippsland Basin off the southern coast that has been steadily deteriorating (Diaby et al. 2016)
Discussion

 There is continuous news of world running out of crude oil. Data have shown that crude oil is getting
extinct within 30 years.
 The drilling of oil have impacted the environment.
 Oil spills have caused harm to the animals and hence destroyed the ecosystem
 Oil burning in cars pollutes air
 Gases further contributes to the global warming.
Crude oil impact

Can world survive without Crude oil
 The world can service without Crude Oil
 In pre-industrial period In Australia Aboriginals never utilized petrochemicals
however they extracted animal fats for applications such as fuel for heat and lamps.

Example for alternatives of fuel
The mobile applications, have approached the point where electric cars is replaced with most
gas powered cars. They just improved the batteries hence, this proves that there are alternatives
of fuel

Errors and uncertainty
The data received or obtained from the primary research is correct for now
however necessary steps need to taken in to consideration and parallel new
and alternative form of energy searched must be continued Cassidy and
Kosev 2015) . The data has some systemic error as the investigations were
done totally on some selected sources however there was no proper
quantitative data analysis of the issue.

Limitations of data and methodologies
 The data obtained is limited as the primary research gave analysis
from some specific sources
 It is time consuming
 The data obtained from the primary research was not that strong
(Diaby et al. 2016)
 As the opinion of only general public were taken
 Analysis provided was not with effective outcomes.

Further research
 The further research would be conducted it would be with more sample size, as sample
size is very important in conducting research.
 Research would be conducted over oil company employees and managers and survey's
and feedback would give a wide range of data
 This would help in further interpretation and analysis