Offshore Oil and Gas People use oil and gas more than any other source of energy. From oil, refineries make or extract gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricants. Petrochemical plants make plastics and fertilizers.
Natural gas heats our homes and fires steam generators to make electricity.
Without oil and gas, everyone's life would be different. The petroleum industry produces oil and gas from special layers of rocks called reservoirs. Like a multilayered cake, additional beds of rock lie about and below these reservoirs. And, like the frosting on a cake, a relatively thin layer of ground sometimes covers the rock layers. Since oceans and seas cover about three-fourths of the earth, it is no surprise that water also covers rock layers.