Oil field facts for kids
An oil field is a region with many oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs usually extend over a large area, possibly several hundred kilometres across, the only way to completely exploit the field is with many wells in different parts of the field. Other than wells, there may be pipelines to transport the oil elsewhere, and support buildings for the workers and for repairs.
Images for kids
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tructure map, looking downward, generated by contour map software for an 8,500-ft-deep gas and oil reservoir in the Erath field, Erath, Louisiana. The left-to-right gap near the top indicates a fault line between the blue and green contour lines and the purple, red, and yellow lines. The thin red circular line in the middle indicates the top of the oil reservoir. Because gas rises above oil, this latter line marks the gas-and-oil contact zone.
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An oil field with dozens of wells. This is the Summerland Oil Field, near Santa Barbara, California, before 1906
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location of Gas Fields of Iran
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The drillship Discoverer Enterprise is shown in the background, at work during exploratory phase of a new offshore field. The Offshore Support Vessel Toisa Perseus is shown in the foreground, illustrating part of the complex logistics of offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
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Structural-stratigraphic trap in a tilted block draped by mudstones
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Stratigraphic trap under an unconformity
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Stratigraphic trap in a fossilised coral reef (yellow) sealed by mudstones (green)
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Stratigraphic trap around an evaporite (pink) salt dome
See also
In Spanish: Campo petrolífero para niños
