Interesting Oil Facts

Here are some of the most interesting oil facts I found on the web: Feel free to comment and leave any of your own

Oil was formed more than 300 million years ago

Oil is made into many different products like for instance clothes, fertilizers, plastic bottles, pens and lot of other products

Oil as well as other fossil fuels emits dangerous greenhouse gases which cause the global warming

Oil biggest producer is Saudi Arabia followed by Russia

Oil together with coal and natural gas supply about 88 % of the world's energy needs

Oil field that is largest in the world is Ghawar in Saudi Arabia that contains between the 75-85 billion barrels of oil which is six times more than the Prudhoe Bay in Alaska as the largest oil field in US