If you have ever been stood in a petrol station filling up your work vehicle, getting ready to pay with the Fuel Cards that you can get from https://www.fuelcardservices.com/fuel-cards/ you might have found yourself wondering where petrol comes from in the first place.

Petrol like diesel comes from crude oil. This oil is a fossil fuel which means that there is a finite amount of it available to us on the planet. Crude oil is made up of matter and organisms that were around millions of years ago. These plants and tiny organisms have been heated to incredible temperatures where they then turn into carbons.

Oil reserves are located across the world with the vast majority of them being in the Northern Hemisphere and a large number being in the Middle East. Finding new oil reserves requires the use of seismic waves and detailed satellite technologies. Once the oil has been located the drill of wells can begin. The oil is then channelled into fractioning columns. These columns heat up to an incredible 400 degrees celsius and during this heating process the oil is separated into hydrocarbons and petroleum and diesel are two of these.

Once the hydrocarbons are separated they are channelled in different directions at the oil well and then they can be refined if necessary and then stored ready for delivery to the main stations and then onto the petrol stations where we get our fuel from.