17. Hydrocarbon Kitchen Organic Rich Shale (Source Rock) Tar Oil Natural Gas Rock 80°C (7,500ft) 145°C (15,000 ft) “ Petroleum Window” Need to cook for millions of years!! No Petroleum No Petroleum
34. A Typical Oil Well in Illinois At the well head is the rocking pump jack (at the left). A water oil mixture is recovered from the reservoir rock The mixture is pumped to the separator tank (center), and the oil then flows by gravity to one of the two storage tanks (right). The water flows to the other storage tank where it is collected and may be pumped back underground through an injection or disposal well.