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Extracting oil and gas

This volume’s ‘Focus on industry’ columns will explore crude oil and natural gas as raw materials for the chemical industry. We will look at their formation and methods of extraction, and how important hydrocarbons are separated and then processed to produce gaseous and liquid fuels and compounds needed to make a vast number of products, from plastics to medicines. Here, we look at how petroleum is formed and the drilling techniques that are used to extract it

This ‘Focus on industry’ links to the following A-level topics:

● hydrocarbons (alkanes)

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