Question

please break down different types of hydrocarbon that is produced and describe them and tell little bit about their importance in oil and gas industry

Answer 1

A hydrocarbon is an organic compound composed of two elements, hydrogen and carbon. A large part of the composition of petroleum is made up of hydrocarbons of varying lengths. The smallest hydrocarbon, methane, is composed of a single carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. However, hydrocarbons can literally consist of hundreds or thousands of individual atoms that are linked together in any number of ways, including chains, circles, and other complex shapes.

Paraffins(C_nH_2n+2)saturated hydrocarbons with straight or branched chains, but without any ring structure.

Cycloparaffins (C_nH_2n)(naphthenes),saturated hydrocarbons containing one or more rings, each of which may have one or more paraffin side-chains(also known as alicyclic hydrocarbons).

Aromatics(C_nH_2n-6)i.e,hydrocarbons containing one or more aromatic nuclei such as benzene, naphthalene, and phenanthrene ring systems that may be linked up with (substituted) naphthalene rings or paraffin side-chains.

Olefins etc.

cruide oil goes through various process in refining where we obtain different type of economical product.

LPG : for cooking other purpose

gasoline: for vehicle

diseal: vehicle fuel

kerosene,jetoil,etc

methane: Fuel in electrical generation

ethane: Used in the production of ethylene.

propane, butane-cooking and heating

pentane as solvent

ethylene-polymer etc