You may be surprised at how many products are petroleum based! There are petroleum products in medicine, apparel, civic infrastructure, plastics and cosmetics. We can no longer imagine a world without the hydrocarbons that petroleum allows us to generate from it. 

Petroleum Products in the Home

Just as gasoline for automobile fuel is indispensable, most Americans never go through a day without relying on the benefits of plastics. Polymer technologies have given us products that are economical and can be recycled and are an indispensable part of our lives.

Paraffin is used to create candles, shoe polish and even in the confectionary industry. Petrolatum or petroleum jelly is used for medicines and cosmetics and moisturizers that heal our skin. Clothes are increasingly being made from petroleum product based fibers like rayon and nylon.

Synthetic rubber is also made from petroleum and used to make clothing, shoes and tires. Petroleum is an ingredient in linoleum floors as well as vinyl matting for cheap durable flooring. Asphalt, also petroleum based, is used for paving driveways and roads. It is also used to create the shingles on our roofs.

Paints and printers inks are made from petroleum by-products as are lacquer, machine lubricant and motor grease. Other petroleum intermediates are used to create the detergents we use to clean our clothes. In short, most of the modern conveniences that we have come to enjoy are heavily dependant on petroleum products. 

Petroleum Products in Our Industries

Petroleum has many industrial uses as well. It is used as a raw material for making many organic chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides. It is also used to make many carbon-based products and graphite based products. These are in turn used for lining furnaces and making electrodes and especially for the production of aluminum which in turn is used in a lot of household appliances.

Upon refining crude oil we get naphtha, a substance used as feedstock for producing petrochemicals like natural gas and refinery gases like ethane, propane and butane. These in turn are used as feed stock for generating chemicals like ethylene, propylene, butylenes and iso-butylene, butadiene, benzene, toluene and xylene among others.
 

Petroleum Usage

Petroleum products can be classified into several categories: fuels like petrol, kerosene, natural gas, diesel and propane. Non-fuels form the second category consisting of industrial solvents and lubricants. Last, but most definitely not the least are petroleum derivatives based on feedstock like naphtha.

Transportation uses up the bulk of the petroleum available today. Next in terms of petroleum usage are the petrochemicals based industries. The third largest consumption sector is the energy industry, supplying electricity to our homes. We rely so much on petroleum products that organizations like Triple Diamond Energy Corp. work hard to provide us all our energy and petrochemical requirements.

Petroleum products have become an indispensable part of life today. Companies like Triple Diamond Energy Corporation do their best to fulfill all our energy and petroleum requirements by discovering and extracting petroleum from new sources.