History of the Offshore Oil Industry
Over five thousand years ago in the Middle East, oil that
had come up through the ground was being used in medication,
lighting, paints and for waterproofing boats. Lighting
in many homes was made possible by whale oil until the
whale numbers dropped and increased the price of this
oil.
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The demand for oil increased and many companies began looking
for ways to find other sources or an alternative to oil. Coal
oil was then found and used until a process for drilling for
crude oil was developed. At first land oil wells were drilled
then with the increased demand people began to look to drilling
beneath the sea for this black gold. The Gulf of Mexico opened
the first oil well in the open sea. In 1959, a land gas field
was found in the Netherlands. Then geologists discovered that
there was gas under the North Sea basin in the UK.
Over the years the oil industry has further developed and
has expanded oil fields into deeper water and further away
from land. Safety has become a serious issue that has improved
over the years and now enables all employees to be safe and
well prepared in case of disaster with full training provided
by employers.
Crude oil or Petroleum is created by the formation of animal
and plant remains that become buried deep into the seabed
as the year's progress. The material will then decompose into
petroleum and seep into the layers in the rocks. As the tectonic
plates of the earth move the oil is then gathered into pools
then drained through oil wells.
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