Petroleum as the source of hydrocarbons

At the end of this activity, students should be able to:
– understand the origin of fossil fuels
– recognise the importance of crude oil
– know the location of the principal deposits of crude oil in the world
– understand the fractional distillation process
– know the basic products from fractional distillation of crude oil and their uses
– understand the terms ‘cracking’ and ‘reforming’
– be able to perform calculations involving the concepts of density and mass percentage.