Black Gold or Black Gold is just petroleum Petrol or oil, sometimes the term is called on coal. The name of this name comes from its importance and impact in different aspects of life to the extent that it compares with the value of gold, and therefore was the name of black gold on this wealth, and similar oil gold also that they were the focus of the struggle of others to get them, oil is not only important in fuel; Also in many industries called petrochemical industries.
The oil was produced through the exposure of marine organisms, their organisms, their plankton and plants, and other plant and animal fauna, and others that lived in ancient geological times to bury beneath the surface of the earth for very deep distances. They also subjected to pressure and heat, Millions of years. Thus, oil is a non-renewable energy source and is therefore subject to depletion and exhaustion with its constant consumption. This also makes it a valuable currency. The whole world depends on oil or on black gold in its different areas of life.
Oil is a thick, liquid, black and slightly greenish, consisting of a group of complex hydrocarbons formed to form a series of alkanes. Oil is extracted from the crust, specifically from the upper layer. The degree of purity, shape and composition of oil depends on where it was extracted. Oil is a flammable material and therefore the equipment it extracts and the reservoirs that it maintains and transmits are very sensitive, specially equipped and always subject to observation, under certain pressure and temperature.
As mentioned above, oil is one of the most important sources of energy in the world and the most consumed, it is used in the process of generating electricity, as well as in the management of various means of transport of buses, cars, aircraft and others, and is used in the operation of various factories. Oil is used as a raw material in the industry. It is used in the field of plastic and textile industries such as nylon, industrial leather, industrial fur, etc. It is also used in the pharmaceutical industry, in the manufacture of fertilizers, pesticides and other industries. America is one of the most consuming countries of oil; it consumes alone about a quarter of the world’s oil production, and estimated the United States of America imports of oil about 75% to cover the needs of it.