1. Detection of Oil
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By: Josephine Nittel
Physics 9
Mr. Hopwood
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2. Basic Information about
finding oil
These days, oil is one of the major driving
forces of the worlds economy.
Oil is made into other things. For example,
gasoline, diesel, tar and petrochemicals,
etc.
Oil is a made out of fossilization, that’s why
the oil diggers have to dig deep to find oil.
However, the digging is not very good
because of the ocean bed.
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without randomly digging a hole
somewhere to find oil.
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3. When the waves reflect, depth
Radar Wave and density of the materials
Generators are found out by the
Radars utilize ultra high
characteristics of the
frequency waves that penetrateradarscope.
the ground and identify oil The drawbacks of radar
deposits. generators is the high amount
Radar waves go back to of power required to power the
the radar generator as they radar waves.
travel through the ground.
When the radar waves ‘bounce’
off solid rock, the radar waves
reflect differently when, as if
when they would bounce off a
oil reserve under the ground.
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4. Sonar Wave Generators
Frequency waves that are low, or sonar
waves, are used to detect hidden oil
fields around dense mineral substrate.
(Sonar for oil exploration acts like that on
a submarine).
The sonar waves come back from the solid
surfaces, and get distorted if they
come back through an underground oil
field.
Sound generators produce sonar waves at
different frequencies so that it effectively
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explores different substrates.
