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Oil drilling in the world (Information on oil drilling (USA and Canada…
Oil drilling in the world
Information on oil drilling
USA and Canada have made a profit of $257 billion on extracting, transporting, refining, distributing and trading oil.
Oil drilling began in 1859
World largest oil reserve by country: Venezuela 300,878 million barrels, Saudi Arabia 266,455 million barrels, Canada 169,709 million barrels
The average cost of an oil rig is around about $650 million
Top 10 Oil Producing countries: USA 15.6, Saudi Arabia 12.1, Russia 11.2, Canada 5.0
Oil drilling is the extraction of oil from the earth thanks to a tube and a pump connected to it.
effects of oil drilling on the environment
radical impacts on the landscape
use of heavy equipments such as bulldozers, road gravers and gravel trucks
destruction of the local vegetation, increase erosion, disturb the ground's surface and damage wildlife habitats
they disturb the environment around it
wild mammals and birds respond to noise disturbance with short term avoidance behaviour
these behaviours become habituated, the human impact make the migration routes more difficult.
wastewater, organic chemicals, petroleum hydrocarbons and other chemical substances comprise the safety of our water since most of the times the wastes, are thrown there
drinking problems, illnesses, water used to wash food that we eat.
methane emission on the environment
destroy the scenic views and clear night skies
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/7-ways-oil-and-gas-drilling-bad-environment