If someone skims crude oil from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, can that crude oil be used / sold the same way as oil pumped from an oil rig?
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If someone skims crude oil from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, can that crude oil be used / sold the same way as oil pumped from an oil rig?
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BP is treating it as though it can insofar as ownership of it.
When oil is still in the reservoir it’s often under simlar pressures and is often accompanied by brines a lot more concentrated than seawater. I’m not certain how all that influences refining methods but I’m confident enough it can be used to say it can as though I actually knew.
Try picking up some bucket fulls off your local beach and try selling it back to BP, Transocean or any other oil company and see how far that gets you. On second thoughts don’t waste your time.
Yes but not necessarily for the same things or in the same way as oil right out of the well. The lighter hydrocarbons will have evaporated leaving the heavier tarry ones behind. It could be cracked or used for things other than gasoline.
(The processing costs will have increased dramatically.)
It can be used in a different way. When refined it produces more heavy substance and can be used as furnace oil. the lighter fraction might have got evaporated and hence this conclusion.