Question

What is petroleum? Where does petroleum occur?

Answer 1

Petroleum

• Diesel and petrol are obtained from a natural resource called petroleum. Petroleum is a crude oil.
• It is made up of a variety of constituents such as gasoline, diesel, petroleum gas, paraffin wax lubricating oil, and so on.

Occurrence of petroleum

• Petroleum is made up of organisms that live in the sea.
• The absence of air, high pressure, and high temperature transformed the dead organisms into petroleum and natural gas.