What’s the difference between, Oil, Crude Oil, Gas, Natural Gas and Fuel? (And others I may be missing.)

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What’s the difference between, Oil, Crude Oil, Gas, Natural Gas and Fuel? (And others I may be missing.)

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Oil is the “raw version” or what’s extracted from the ground. Gasoline, kerosene ect are derived from oil by “cracking it” which is slang for cracking the hydrocarbons into shorter chains which give you the aforementioned products. Refinery’s do this and then sell it.

Edit: the process for yielding different products from oil is different from each other and different types of crude oil are used for each. There’s primarily two types of crude, sweet and sour crude. Sour has higher sulfur content.