Did you know?

• The United States consumes 20 million barrels of oil a day, but only produces 5 million barrels a day.
• 63 % of the oil that ends up into the sea is from natural oil seeps in the ocean floor. 33% of the oil in the sea comes from the people who use the oil. For example, when people spill oil by filling their gas tanks, the rain washes it to the sea.
• One of the first successful oil wells drilled for the purpose of finding oil was in western Pennsylvania by Colonel Edwin Drake in 1859.
• Oil wells can be drill 38,000 feet under ground.
• Long ago the only way people got petroleum was by digging by hand or by small amounts of oil leaking out naturally.
• The most productive oil wells in the United States was in Texas, with one well producing 800,000 barrels in 9 days. This whole field yielded more than 140 million barrels of oil.
• There are 260 billion barrels of oil in reserves. The world consumes 85 million a day.
• A 42 gallon barrel of oil provides more than 44 gallons of petroleum products. This is because when it is refined, it expands.
• Petroleum is used in many different aspects in our lives, such as heating our homes and fueling our cars. Some products made from petroleum are ink, crayons, bubble gum, dishwashing liquids, deodorant, eyeglasses, records, and tires.
• The United States is the third top oil producing country.
• The top oil producing state ing the US is Texas.